Old Town Ale House - Chicago
Barflies--young, old and famous--come here for the cheap drinks and new friends.
Barflies--young, old and famous--come here for the cheap drinks and new friends.
Did a search for dive bars in Chicago and this was number one. We went in the afternoon and when we walked in it was so dark. There were a few small tables...
Fun dive bar. Can get super full, but we were lucky to snag a table at the window (great for people watching). Lots of cool signed caricatures on the wall.
For sure this is what a dive bar should be. It may not have the cheapest drinks, but there's lots of other things about it that make it so. Old Town Ale...
Back "in the day" I get it that this place was the place to go. But it's now a dirty, expensive place to get a drink in a dive-bar setting. It's right...
Cute little old pub! I can assume back in the day, this was a hangout for the Second City crowd. It's touristy now and the prices are not cheap. You're...