Chicagoist: It's a Beautiful Day in Inner Town's Neighborhood

parnellsf

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:19:21 -0600

As mentioned on this thread, the Chicago Bar Project and link to Inner Town Pub has moved to: http://www.chibarproject.com/Reviews/InnerTown/InnerTown.htm

starcrunch

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:43:09 -0600

I've been yelled at outside of Innertown after closing. Those bouncer guys won't tolerate you even standing around quietly trying to decide which 4am to go to, let alone anything that would qualify as disturbing to the neighbors. Recently I've noticed the door guy is outside all the time, usually reading a book, keeping an eye on who's coming and going. Any recent complaints about disturbances have got to be bullshit.

Dan Boland

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:27:20 -0600

I mean, true, maybe the bar should ask the patrons to be polite and quiet when leaving (seen that sign on many neighborhood bars), but unless the the bar is harboring serious thugs (dealing drugs, fighting every weekend outside, people that destroy neighboring property), I don't think their license and such should come under fire. I agree completely. I've lived above a bar, and from that I know that it takes a real busybody with nothing better to do to raise this much of a stink over some loud noise and boorishness.

DanceSing2008

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:20:22 -0600

Mycube, if the clientel changed in the past few years, I don't see how that could be anything but an improvment in terms of noise.

the new guest number 2

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:19:17 -0600

Not *everyone* leaving a bar shitfaced is rowdy and bothering neighbors. Some of us are too busy trying to remember where we parked our car to cause any trouble.

mike_thoms

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:03:09 -0600

It's the same as the idiots who live near O'Hare and complain about the noise, or the idiots who live near Wrigley complain about the traffic. The thing about the Innertown Pub neighbors is I bet they're all 30s or early 40s, probably not too far removed from the bar scene where they were stumbling drunk out of various neighborhood establishments at ungodly hours, loud, rowdy, vomity, who knows what else. The way Daley has been trying to close down all these great neighborhood bars, for just those reasons, I'm sure Innertown Pub is on the way out.

Mycubehas3sides

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:59:52 -0600

Stories/situations like this always get me angry. It's like the people who moved in never went to a bar in their entire life, like the whole concept of "people in/leaving bars" is a completely foreign incomprehensible concept. I mean, true, maybe the bar should ask the patrons to be polite and quiet when leaving (seen that sign on many neighborhood bars), but unless the the bar is harboring serious thugs (dealing drugs, fighting every weekend outside, people that destroy neighboring property), I don't think their license and such should come under fire. (of course, I haven't been to this bar in a few years, did clientel change that drastically of late?)

Navin

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:16:54 -0600

Innertown would make a sweet 'Tini' bar! Or even better: an upscale pet shop!

DanceSing2008

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:58:56 -0600

How can you write about Inner Town Pub and NOT link to this: http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/953.html or this: http://www.chicagobarproject.com/Reviews/InnerTown/InnerTown.htm The first link might be the best example of first person journalism this country has ever seen. Granted it's a litte dated from 2001, but you can see little things in the article that foreshadowed where we are today. Wowzas!

mike_thoms

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:25:51 -0600

This is why people hate yuppies