Goodbye, Margie's Pub

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Aug 16, 2011 9:48PM

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?