Photos: Logan Square Dive The Mutiny Caught Fire Last Night
By Mae Rice in News on Mar 18, 2016 3:15PM
Beloved Logan Square dive bar the Mutiny caught fire Thursday night, but the blaze caused no major damage, a fire department official said.
Chicago Fire Commander Walter Schroeder told DNAInfo that his department received a call about a fire in the bar’s back offices at 9:45 p.m., and firefighters put it out 30 minutes later. No one was injured.
In fact, the bar may not even have fully closed during the blaze. The Chicago Reader’s music editor, Philip Montoro, tweeted:
I'm hearing that the bar at the Mutiny is still open right now, despite the fire. It was pretty small and contained.
— Philip Montoro (@pmontoro) March 18, 2016
However, it did cause at least minor inconvenience. The fire forced a show by Glyders, a local band, to switch venues, from the Mutiny to East Room:
Place burned down before we could get rollin', come to East Room, we're doing a quickie survivor set in a few minutes
Posted by Glyders on Thursday, March 17, 2016
Casey Walker also tweeted a photo of the scene at the Mutiny:
Damn the Mutiny on Fullerton and Western on fire. Was inside when the flames in the back office burst out :( so sad pic.twitter.com/bCeAkS1zCf
— casey (@caseycew) March 18, 2016
The Mutiny, which has been a Logan Square staple since 1990, has made no mention of the fire on its Facebook or its extremely old-school website as of yet.