Charlie Vernon

Charlie Vernon, from Lake Forest, IL, came to Chicago in 1976 after receiving a BFA in Dance from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He wrote about dance in the Chicago Reader and choreographed his own works, presenting at venues such as MoMing Dance and Arts Center and the Name Gallery. In 1978, he co-founded Links Hall with Carol Bobrow and Bob Eisen. Vernon was still on the Links Hall Board of Directors when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008, though he left the Board that year. Vernon died in 2019.