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Chicago

Behind the Wicker Park mural and inside an eight-seat time capsule.

Chicago's hidden rooms are legend: The Violet Hour, behind an ever-changing mural wall in Wicker Park, set the standard for American craft cocktails, and the Milk Room, an eight-seat former speakeasy in the Chicago Athletic Association, pours rare spirits by reservation.

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The Violet Hour

Find the door in the mural, part the curtains, the high-ceilinged blue room that taught America to drink well again.

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