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Chicago Prohibition Speakeasy Bar Tour
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2–4 Hours
Small group (3-10)
English
Overview
Why this night is worth your time
Chicago wrote the book on speakeasies, and this tour reads straight from the original. Over three and a half hours you work through historic downtown bars, including a spot that has poured since the 1800s, with the Prohibition history told in the actual rooms where it unfolded. These are real venues with real pasts, not themed mock-ups, which is the whole reason the night lands the way it does.
The ticket covers the guide and the historic bar stops, so the route through the city's genuine Prohibition-era rooms is mapped and led for you. The value is the authenticity: you are drinking in places with documented histories, learning the era where it happened, rather than in a bar built last year to look old. Drinks and food are extra, so budget for a round at each historic stop.
It is adults-only and suited to couples, friends and history-minded travelers who want the real thing over a costume party. The pace covers a fair bit of downtown, so wear comfortable shoes and bring ID. A light layer helps for the walks between bars, and booking ahead is wise, since the genuinely historic rooms are small and fill up.
Places & context
Places this tour is built around
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Wicker Park
A once-immigrant neighborhood of grand old mansions and hidden backrooms, where Prohibition's bootleggers and blind pigs did a roaring trade behind respectable brick facades.
Chicago River
The dark river running through the heart of the city, its bridges and docks the arteries down which smuggled liquor once moved under cover of night.
The Loop
The thundering downtown core beneath the elevated tracks, where basement speakeasies once hid under the banks and offices, jazz leaking up through the sidewalk grates.
The Old Town of Chicago
One of the city's oldest quarters, its crooked streets and cottages sheltering the taverns and gambling dens that quietly outlasted the ban on drink.
Abraham Lincoln Park
The great lakefront park laid partly over an old city cemetery — bodies moved but not all of them found — with the bootleggers' glittering Gold Coast along its southern edge.
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Included
What is typically covered
- Guide; historic bar stops.
- Drinks; food.
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