Green Mill

Green Mill can be found at N Broadway St 4802. The following is offered: Restaurants: Grill. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Chicago there are 64 other Restaurants: Grill . An overview can be found here.

"History drips from every note" and the music "swings with cool precision" at this "not-to-be-missed" Uptown jazz club hosting the "best in the business" and maybe even the "ghost of Al Capone" (the "decor hasn't changed" since his day); "drinks are the least of the draw", but service is "decent", prices "ok" and the "sophisticated" crowd really goes for the "incredible" entertainment and...

If we had to pick one place in all of Chicago that epitomizes the city's rich and gritty history, it'd have to be the Green Mill. Al Capone used to hang out here in the 1920s, when it was a speakeasy during Prohibition. Then and since, the smoky, dark-wood-paneled, and dimly lit joint has been one of the best places in the country to see every flavor of jazz—Dixieland, traditional, bebop,...

You can feel the history in the air at this beautiful jazz club from the 1930s. An antique bar, deep red booths and dusty paintings have remained unchanged since James Caan blew the place up in the 1981-movie "Thief." If you're young, loud and drunk, prepare to get shushed throughout moody jazz performances. (An underground network of secret tunnels and rooms, used when the place was a...

Green Mill, in the heart of Uptown, is "Old Chicago" down to its rafters. It became a popular watering hole during the 1920s and 1930s, when regulars included Al Capone, Sophie Tucker (the Last of the Red Hot Mamas), and Al Jolson, and today it retains its speakeasy flavor. On Sunday night, the Green Mill plays host to the Uptown Poetry Slam, when poets vie for the open mic to roast and...

Once a haunt of Al Capone's, this oldest jazz club in the U.S. opened in 1907, and retains the aura of the Prohibition-era speakeasies.

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