Goodbye, Margie's Pub

The Old Style sign outside Margie's Pub in North Center. (Photo: Chuck Sudo/Chicagoist)

A poster to Yelp writes that Margie's Pub in Lincoln Square served up their last shot and beer last night.

We've called the venerable dive a few times this afternoon and no one's picked up the phone. If Margie's has indeed closed another part of what we loved about Lincoln Square goes into the mystic. Margie's stayed the same as Lincoln Square went from sketchy neighborhood through gentrification and condo multiplication, keeping their drink prices affordable and the menu simple the entire time.

Now someone needs to liberate that beautiful vintage Old Style sign hanging outside Margie's. Karl?

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By Chuck Sudo in Food on August 16, 2011 4:48 PM

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Aaron Berlin

Jumped the shark when 50 cent Old Style Mondays became 1 dollar Old Style Mondays, but still a beloved institution.

Sarah Best

Noooooooo....it was bad enough when they got rid of the second pool table with the thundercats logo on it. Where am I going to go for a frosty mug and commentary from someone else's hilarious alcoholic grandmothers?

slatsg

Yeah, when was Lincoln Square sketchy? I've only been here 15 years. It was very different then, but it was in no way sketchy.

ophmarketing

Even as far back as the mid-'80s, it wasn't anywhere near 'sketchy.' Unless by 'sketchy,' you mean 'affordable.'

ChicagoD

I'm still trying to remember when Lincoln Square was sketchy. I remember when it was ungentrified and full of working ethnics, but I don't remember the sketchy era.