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Chicago

Cash only, cheap cans, and the best jukeboxes in America

Chicago is a dive-bar town to its bones: 1958 Old Town institutions, Ukrainian Village photobooths, and Swedish glogg poured under fish-shaped neon. Grimy, warm, and gloriously unchanged.

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The Old Town Ale House

A cash-only 1958 institution across from Second City, its walls covered in irreverent nude celebrity paintings. Dim, ramshackle, and beloved by comics, cabbies, and Roger Ebert alike.

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