Lemmings is a Bucktown safe haven for those whose worst nightmare is an evening spent at Cans or Wicker Park Tavern.

You really can’t beat a place with a roof deck in the summer, affording you views of the surrounding neighborhood most likely swarming with inebriated Cubs fans.

No visit to this city is complete without a night out grooving to authentic Chicago blues. Artis’s Lounge offers good music, good drinks, and good people.

It’s finally here… the long-awaited Paris Club, Chicago’s newest Lettuce Entertain You creation and a welcome addition the River North neighborhood.

Whether it’s the nightly music, classic food menu, or the seemingly perpetual positive demeanor of the Lakeview crowd, you’ll never second guess your night should have been spent somewhere else.

The Local Option has a rock edge to it and probably the biggest and best beer list in Lincoln Park.

Step backwards in time to a basement pub during the American Revolution.

The Annoyance is home to a casual bar in the front and a cozy theater space in the back. Seven nights a week you can see some of the funniest sketch, improv, and musical shows that Chicago has to offer.

It seems that Happy Village is a local bar to the core, with a humble beer selection and a table tennis arena in the back for visitors like me to drool over.

If you’re in River North but not feeling like the usual River North scene, check out Rossi’s. This place is the definition of a dive bar and people love it for exactly that reason.

Always promising a friendly crowd, great service, and even better entertainment, Davenport’s is a special spot in Wicker Park.

Located right off of the square on Milwaukee, The Rocking Horse is a bar that aims to please.

The first thing you notice about The Whistler is that you’ve walked past it. There are some bars where you are trying to have a “blast,” and then there are bars where you go to have a great night; The Whistler is the latter, in every positive sense of the phrase.

Though relatively young to the scene, Fountainhead isn’t kidding around with its whiskey and beer list!