As reported on June 16, 1924, by the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Chicago Sun-Times:
Several persons were injured and damage reckoned at $50,000 was done by a bomb set off in the Moulin Rouge cafe, which was being prepared for reopening at Van Buren Street and Wabash Avenue, after being closed a year by federal injunction.
Thirty persons, most of them girls, were in the place rehearsing a revue which was to be the opening-night feature. many persons were passing on the sidewalk when the bombers slipped the charge of explosive into the place.