![]() ![]() Speakeasies were common, but they still had to operate in the shadows, in the legal and sometimes literal sense. Here are a few things that most - if not all - Chicago speakeasies needed. Still, a few common elements made it easy to get away with skirting this very unpopular law. (How many is that? It’s hard to confirm an exact number, but probably thousands - more than there are bars in the city today.) Illegal gatherings to drink in the back of a warehouse, a candy store or a backyard were all technically speakeasies. It’s hard to determine Chicago’s ideal speakeasy building, since speakeasies came in almost as many varieties as there were speakeasies. What sorts of buildings housed speakeasy bars in Chicago during the Prohibition era? What made these buildings particularly well suited for speakeasies? ![]() Her question for Curious City gets at what made the original original speakeasies successful: There’s something sort of cheekily illicit about that I think is cool,” says Elena Hadjimichael, who was part of a student team that tackled a Curious City question about Chicago’s wholesale produce markets. Take The Violet Hour, a favorite spot of the recent University of Chicago alumna who asked our question. It’s good for business.Įven modern bars are reappropriating that speakeasy vibe. No other Chicago speakeasy comes close to matching the bar’s views.To that end, Garibay says the bar owners around town with any connections to that era are happy to play it up. Until then, Mile High Cocktail Club is one of the city’s top spots to raise a glass in style. Our advice? Make your reservations now, as this striking speakeasy will be open just until early April, when it will be converted to a luxury suite. “We hope to provide a taste of wanderlust to our eager explorers during their time in Chicago,” notes Ciara Merouan, the hotel’s director of public relations. In short, it’s a speakeasy experience unlike any other in the city, complete with a ’60s Pan-Am vibe that harks back to Four Seasons’ roots as one of the great names of luxury travel.Ĭocktails take inspiration from the Seven Wonders of the World. Mile High Cocktail Club draws an in-the-know mix of locals and visitors. In a converted corner suite on the 46th floor of Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, the chic space boasts all the trappings of a typical hidden bar-after a welcome drink in the concept’s “pre-departure lounge,” guests pass into the low-lit space through a classic London phone booth-but the setting itself is anything but typical: Jaw-dropping views make for mesmerizing eye candy for guests lounging on plush furniture and indulging in Seven Wonders of the World-themed libations like the Rose City (bourbon, black tea, rose water, date, sage and mint). Forty-six floors above the Mag Mile, Mile High Cocktail Club beckons with travel-inspired cocktails and gorgeous cityscape views worth raising a glass to.Ī selection of rotating bar snack offerings add to Mile High Cocktail Club’s appeal.Ĭhicago’s speakeasy scene abounds with basement bars and dark, hidden-away nooks, but Adorn Bar & Restaurant has turned the concept on its head with its new Mile High Cocktail Club (120 E. ![]()
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