Games are designed to increase critical thinking, memory, coordination, word skills and visual perception, all of which you’ll want to have when it’s 2am at the bar and those beer goggles are screwed on mighty tight. Not to take you away from Elder Scrolls (or Angry Birds), but consider instead directing your frontal cortex at the challenging games, puzzles and brain teasers sold at this chain whose out CEO Lindsay Gaskins lives in Chicago with her wife and daughter. There’s elbow room for all (sometimes more than we’d like) including plenty of seating around the rectangular bar or in the plush banquettes we recommend a hot toddy or Baileys and coffee for the wintry days ahead.Ĩ45 N Michigan Ave, 31 or 55 E Grand Ave, 31
It’s not quite the bar where everybody knows your name, but this 2010 newcomer in the former Gentry space continues to anchor gay life in the heart of the city while offering a welcome respite from the busloads of tourists hauling their plump selves up and down the Magnificent Mile in search of the next great bargain.
