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Peek-a-Boo Bar & Grille

This short-lived West Town bar didn’t last long, perhaps because it tried to be an upscale Wicker Park-like lounge with

I recently ran across a blurb on this thought provoking establishment that used to inhabit Chicago’s Old Town. If you

Editor’s Note: Parkway Tavern succumbed to market forces and closed in February 2005, was torn down and is now a

Now a location of do-it-yourself stir fry join, Flat Top Grill, O’Rourke’s along with the Old Town Ale House, Quiet

Editor’s Note: sadly, this writer was too young to have visited O’Banion’s in its heyday, so most of what follows

Not to be confused with the James Bond movie of the same name, Moonraker was one of the few hangouts

The BackRoom is perhaps the very definition of a tourist trap. However, the BackRoom must be recognized as one of

Editor’s note: Mickey’s Snack Bar, though never having been put up for sale, has been acquired by new owners who

The Metro Club—the restaurant & bar that time (and the neighborhood) forgot—shut its doors in 2003 after 29 years in

Editor’s Note: Melvin B’s, and the transient Cedar Hotel above it, closed in September 2007 to make way for the