Chicago - Wrigleyville - Nightlife

3466 N. Clark St., Chicago 60657
773-880-2222

Rockwood Place

Wrigleyville staple The Central dropped the name, removed their ugly subway tiles, nixed the sparkly red banquettes, and reinvented with a few red lightbulbs and wall treatments. Decor's sadly the ... read more

2934 N. Sheffield Ave., Chicago 60657
773-770-0700

Kirkwood Bar & Grill

The former Pops for Champagne took its bubbly and headed up north last year, making room for this sports lounge from the Four Corners Tavern Group. This bar and grill is a chill place to catch the ... read more

3726 N. Broadway St., Chicago 60613
773-871-8887

Charlie's Chicago

Boystown's only gay country bar is a line-dancin', two-steppin' extravaganza in the early evenings, but after 2AM Charlie's transforms into a packed, raging after-hours non-country dance club. On a... read more

3641 N. Halsted St., Chicago 60657
773-325-2233

Circuit

This massive gay dance club is filled with gangsta wannabies, transgendered folk and cutie-pie boys all shaking their shit on a dance floor that gets cooled down with dry ice. Rotating DJs make Cir... read more

3458 N. Halsted St., Chicago 60657
773-975-9244

Hydrate

The former Manhole has turned into a premier gay dance club on Halsted. The interior redecoration continues with foam-core cutouts with revolving themes. Mercifully free of the gay top-40 anthems, ... read more

3441 N. Sheffield Ave., Chicago 60657
773-477-9273

The Yard

While chocolate martinis and scarlet walls used to be served up at the Pepper Lounge, you'll find a bevy of brews and a laid-back vibe at The Yard, which opened in its place last summer. The emphas... read more

301 N. Sheffield Ave., Chicago 60657
773-883-4400

Matilda

Almost as if three neighboring bar owners said "F-it, let's just combine our bars and make one hodgepodge of a brewpub." North room is dark, sexy, south room is industrial with Zinc-Chromate decora... read more

3511 N. Clark St., Chicago 60657
773-935-6669

The Irish Oak

A standout among Chicago's Irish pubs, this is a cozy, crowded spot with a beautiful bar imported from Ireland. The Galway transplants that run the place have lined the walls with bookshelves and o... read more

1970 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago 60614
312-642-0007

Stanley's Kitchen and Tap

Locals love Stanley's so much, the owners recently unveiled a second location in West Town. Great bar menu flaunts some of the best fried chicken in town, a killer weekend brunch and free all-you-c... read more

3741 N. Southport Ave., Chicago 60613
773-975-0600

Cullen's Bar & Grill

Cullen's is an Irish pub that hosts Irish-American rock bands playing "traditional" Irish music on Tuesdays. A tad more elegant than most of its counterparts (although sometimes it's packed), the c... read more

2913 N. Clark St., Chicago 60657
773-477-1741

Duke of Perth

An authentic Scottish pub/restaurant with 70-some kinds of single-malts. Imbibers flock for authentic Scottish dishes and $9.25 all-you-can-eat fish and chips on Wednesdays and Fridays. They have a... read more

3325 N. Broadway St., Chicago 60657
773-477-8533

The Closet

Decades-old lesbian-run place in Boystown. Quiet earlier, it's packed after 2AM, oftentimes with a lot of hairless boys. Very fast service and videos from Mary, Missy, and Madonna. You'll find grou... read more

3356 N. Halsted St., Chicago 60657
773-281-3355

Roscoe's Tavern & Café

A gay standard that looks like Bennigan's. A young, square-ish, drunk crowd conservatively sporting Abercrombie and Fitch packs it full nightly for all sorts of "gay" events. Gay karaoke, a gay sin... read more

3530 N. Clark St., Chicago 60657
773-327-4273

The Wild Hare

The Wild Hare and Singing Armadillo Frog Sanctuary is the club that first brought reggae to Lakeview 21 years ago. Young Wrigleyville partiers who think that Bob Marley wrote all those songs for th... read more

954 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago 60657
773-348-4975

Berlin

Berlin's a lesbi-gay techno dance club that reminds us of Lakeview's seedier days. It's probably the only reason you still see drag queens prancing around Belmont at 4AM. The crowd dances like no o... read more

3349 N. Halsted St., Chicago 60657
773-477-9189

Sidetrack

Video kills the mood at this popular gay bar where TV screens are stashed literally everywhere you turn. Their "cherry lounge" has all the ambiance of a rec deck on Star Trek, with an ominous multi... read more

3730 N. Clark St., Chicago 60613
773-549-0203

Metro

Everyone in Chicago went to their first show at the Metro and frequent all-ages shows still keep this place young. The vaulted black stage hosted its first rock show in 1982 with REM. It's still th... read more

3730 N. Clark St., Chicago 60613
773-549-0203

Smart Bar

Despite numerous remodelings, the downstairs bar connected to Metro will always be too hot and too loud. Tending to the deejay booth are Chicago club regulars, guest band deejays like Ladytron and... read more

3655 N. Sheffield Ave., Chicago 60657
773-281-5356

Murphy's Bleachers

One of the plethora of sports bars that cozy up to Wrigley Field, Murphy's sits right behind the center field bleachers. It's packed like quarter-beer night at a college bar, and the patrons are vi... read more

3740 N. Clark St., Chicago 60613
773-549-2050

The Gingerman Tavern

Located in the heart of Boystown, this highly frequented gay bar features male strippers every night of the week and during the day on weekends. That's a lot of skin, but at least the strippers hav... read more

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