Peace activists to protest Hillary's Saturday fundraiser in Chicago--location of party next to Clintonista's former strip club

UPDATED! I Heard about the protest during a news report on WIND-AM, Chicago's new talk radio outlet.

Hillary Clinton is having a fundraiser at Crobar Saturday night. When he was playing for the Chicago Bulls, Crobar was Dennis Rodman's favorite night club. And Crobar is where Hillary's big event will be. But Crobar is just steps away James Levin's old strip club Thee Doll House. More on that later.

But according to WIND, peace activities will be there to protest her somewhat hawk-ish stand on Iraq. And there will be a protest, as I discovered on Chicago Indymedia.

Here's the scoop on Hillary's Crobar bash:

Saturday Night Live with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Crobar
1543 N. Kingsbury St.

Live from Chicago
Forget the sax; we always knew this former first lady was just waiting to step into the spotlight and bust a move. Hill--er, Sen. Clinton to us--has teamed up with DJ Biz Markie for Saturday Night Live with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a hip-hop re-election stop, with an open bar from 8-9 p.m.

Dec. 3: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Price: $50-$200. Tickets: hillaryclinton.com/december3
Produced by: Friends of Hillary
Phone: 312-943-8371

Now some more about Kingsbury Street in Chicago. At 1531 N. Kingsbury, not even a half a block away, is the site of Thee Doll House, a strip club partly owned by James Levin. There is still a strip club there, VIP's, Levin has no equity in that club. But just who is James Levin?

From a 2001 NewsMax article:

Million-dollar Clinton Library donor Jim Levin, a former Chicago strip club owner who became Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign finance director last year, allegedly supplied ex-President Clinton with lap dancers at the White House, according to former Clinton money-man, Hollywood producer Peter Paul.

"Jim Levin became a very close friend of the president because he supplied female companionship to him in the White House," Paul told Judicial Watch officials Larry Klayman and Russell Verney, along with California radio host Jane Chastain, during Judicial Watch Radio's Saturday broadcast.

Levin acted as an intermediary between the Clintons and Mr. Paul, who spent $2 million bankrolling a star-studded Hollywood gala fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton's Senate campaign last August.

The Clinton accuser told Judicial Watch Radio that after Levin's background as a one-time topless club owner was revealed in the press last year, he was told point-blank about Levin's role providing Clinton with women.

"He was introduced at one point to me as 'the lap dancer provider to the president,'" Paul said.

Levin has his own problems now. He's agreed to plead guilty to fraud and bribery charges involving a snow plowing contract with Chicago's public schools.

So when Hillary is at Crobar Saturday night, I wonder if she'll reminisce about her old fundraisng pal, James "Thee Doll House" Levin. That is, when she's not dodging anti-war protesters.

This post revised at 9pm CST.

UPDATE Monday, December 5. Michelle Malkin has more on dem Dems fighting other Dems.

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