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Nestled on Wrightwood between Southport and Racine is a little piece of Italian heaven known as Rose Angelis.

With locations in Chicago, New York, London, and Edinburgh, Baby Wants Candy has spread musical and comedic joy to over 1,700 audiences.

Farmer’s markets are another one of those joys of summer. Wandering through stalls of fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers, and oh the delicious cheeses is enough to bring out the chef in anyone.

Located just off the DePaul campus in Lincoln Park, McGee’s is crawling with twenty-somethings on one mission: to get really drunk.

Partiers flock to this spot as a late-night option, and you can expect patrons to be three sheets to the wind and ready to give their dancing shoes a workout.

Another bar from the Casey Moran crew (Kelsey’s, Kincades, Twisted Lizard, O’Donovan’s), Kendall’s is a staple on the strip of Lincoln Avenue bars that seem constantly packed with young 20-somethings looking for a good deal and a place to catch the game.

Good food and beer specials, a rowdy crowd, and karaoke & trivia nights. What more could you want in a Lincoln Park bar?

This bar/lounge, located above Lion’s Head Pub, is set-up exactly like its namesake, a real apartment.

Gamekeepers is the quintessential Lincoln Park 4am (5am on Saturdays) bar.

Catering mostly to the Depaul crowd, Halligan’s is a typical Irish bar boasting lots of Guinness and Jameson.

Without anthropomorphizing music venues or speculating on a given building’s feelings, Schubas’ little sister Lincoln Hall has quickly become the premier music venue in all of Chicago.

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

At Flat Top Grill, you are the head chef.