Video Gaming Terminals in 60614 (Lincoln Park, Chicago)

History

German immigrants settled the Old Town Triangle in the 1850s around St. Michael's Church. Residents of the Triangle, worried the neighborhood was close to becoming a slum, formed the Old Town Triangle Association in 1948, and neighbors in the mid-North blocks followed with a group of their own in 1950; the City made the Triangle a Chicago Landmark district in 1977. The Second City opened on Wells Street in 1959 and moved in 1967 to 1616 N. Wells. The zoo on the lakefront began in 1868 with a pair of swans from New York's Central Park. Along the river, clay dredged near Webster Avenue went into brick from the 1840s, and the work took off after the Great Chicago Fire. Clybourn Avenue honors Archibald Clybourne, an early Chicago butcher.

The area today

On the City's map the ZIP runs roughly from North Avenue to Diversey Parkway and from the lakefront to the North Branch of the river. It holds nearly all of the Lincoln Park community area, Old Town north of North Avenue, the blocks around DePaul University and the east end of Bucktown, between the river and Damen Avenue. Along Armitage from Halsted to Racine and on Halsted up to Webster, the Armitage-Halsted landmark district keeps nineteenth-century storefronts, many with pressed-metal bays, cornices and corner turrets. The Brown and Purple lines stop at Armitage and at Fullerton, where the Red Line also stops. Lincoln Avenue is the neighborhood's theater and pub strip, and Armitage-Halsted and Clark Street carry the restaurants and bars.

Bars and restaurants here

If your room is on Lincoln Avenue, you share the sidewalk with theaters and pubs, and your crowd mixes DePaul students with neighborhood longtimers, the way it does at Rose's Lounge, which keeps its Christmas decorations up all year. On Armitage, inside the landmark district's old storefronts, Tripoli Tap is a neighborhood dive that calls itself a Chicago home for Boston sports. On Clark Street, The Galway Arms keeps an all-season patio with a roof and heaters. Clybourn is a shopping corridor between the residential blocks and the river, so your daytime crowd includes shoppers.