Library works to showcase Oak Lawn’s music legacy

In Memphis, it’s possible to stand in the footprints of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, whose impromptu get-together at Sun Studio later was dubbed the “Million Dollar Quartet.”

Appointments for tours of that historic studio in Tennessee are offered daily and include the space where the famous musicians were photographed around a piano, set up to look just as it did then. It’s a worthwhile way to spend an afternoon for anyone who’s a fan of music and of history.

Closer to Chicago, appointments are available that enable visits to another historic studio building where famous musicians cut bestselling albums. But it’s a good idea to first check if it’s in network with your health insurance.

Gary Loizzo, who operated Pumpkin Studios in Oak Lawn in the 1970s and '80s, recording iconic rock albums such as "Paradise Theatre" by Styx, in 1998 in his home studio in Orland Park.

Now a physical therapy office, the former Pumpkin…

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