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Parrots Bar and Grill
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This is my “third place” in Chicago. This woman-owned dive bar a few blocks from Wrigley has been serving the Lakeview neighborhood for decades. You won’t find it on many lists of Chicago must-dos, but Parrots punches above its weight in its pub food offerings, and is a great place to catch a Bears game or Jeopardy! during the day.
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The clocks at Swift & Sons
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Swift & Sons is a completely acceptable Chicago steakhouse; its best feature might be that its space is very large and it’s not too hard to get a reservation. S&S does this thing, though, where it has clocks on the wall from exclusively American cities in the Central Time Zone (in this image, Wichita, Chicago, Oklahoma City, and Madison). Incredible bit.
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La Licor Panamericana
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I've never had a bad experience at this slept-on Logan Square restaurant and cocktail bar. Their "thing" is that every ingredient is exclusively from Latin America (sorry, no PBR), and it works.
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