Everything old is new again—especially when everything new is old.
by Reader staff
You might be wondering why, in a year when so many high-profile bars have arrived—from Three Dots and a Dash in River North to the Dawson in River West, from Punch House in Pilsen to, oh, half of Logan Square—we chose to devote nearly half of our Bar Issue to the oral history of a centenarian
dive in Uptown. To which we'd reply: Seriously?…[ Read more ]