Chicago's Best College Bar

Affable neighborhood sports bar straddling Lincoln Park and Lakeview attracts a post-college crowd.

Reviews:

• “Disgusting”
• “What you see is what you get”
• “Yuck”
• “Terrible Customer Service”
• “Dirty and dingy”

Tips: The bar’s cash-only, but don’t worry about stopping at the bank—there’s an ATM inside.

Durkin’s Tavern or email Durkin’s Tavern

Smart-looking Southport bar that’s comfortable for the neighborhood’s jocks and preppies.

Reviews:

• “Great for watching sports and Yummy Bar Food.”
• “Worst Service Ever Experienced”
• “Great Hang Out”

Tips: Southport is hot enough to make parking a nightmare, but not so hopping that you can hail a cab exactly when you want one—either take the Brown Line, or walk to Belmont to catch a taxi.

Schoolyard Tavern & Grill

Jeans, beer and a mechanical bull are basics at this all-American hangout.

Reviews:

• “Disappointed”
• “HOG & HONEYS RUINED OUR BACHERLORETTE PARTY!”
• “NOT ONE GOOD THING TO SAY-DON’T BOTHER”
• “BAR LALA-LAND”
• “Where was everyone?”

Tips: There’s free secure parking for all motorcyles, and starting at 6pm Saturdays, free barbecue sandwiches for bikers.

Hogs and Honeys

This popular jock hangout has plenty of screens.

Reviews:

• “great deals”
• “Poor service…we’ll never go back!”
• “Amazing service”

Tips: Exercise your lungs on Wednesdays for karaoke. The backroom opens at 8pm, with singing scheduled from 9pm to 1am.

Kincade’s

This popular neighborhood hangout offers good food and more TVs than your local Best Buy.

Reviews:

• “A Ridiculously good time”
• “Where DePaul Parties =p”
• “Two Thumbs way up”
• “Good Eats and Drinks”
• “Best Bar in Chicago!!!”

Tips: Daily specials include the following: Tue 10-cent wings, $8 domestic pitchers. Wed All beer $2.50, $1 burgers, domestic pitchers $7, import pitchers $10, live music. Thu $1 domestic bottles, live music. Sat/Sun make-your-own-bloody-mary bar $5.50.

McGees or email McGees

Hot two-in-one nightlife option in Lincoln Park.

Reviews:

• “Awesome bar”
• “Great place for Thursday”
• “Credit Card SCAM”
• “FUN FUN FUN!!”
• “Anywhere But Here”

Tips: TVs beckon during the day, but recede into the ceiling at night. (Translation: A safe date spot, ladies, as long as you avoid the PlayStation upstairs.)

Lion Head Pub and The Apartment

This rowdy college bar has been operating under the Red and Brown Lines since the 30’s.

Reviews:

• “Where DePaul parties too!!!”

Kelly’s Pub

European expats and Glasgow Celtic and Chicago Fire fans take to this pub’s high-definition screens and fish and chips.

Reviews:

• “Your home away from home for all your football (soccer) and UK sports needs”

Tips: Karaoke fires up Thursday nights, beginning each week approximately when enough beer has been downed.

The Globe

An old-fashioned, good-time Irish bar and restaurant attracts everyone from college carousers to mature couples.

Reviews:

• “Lousy Service”
• “Best Pub in Evanston”
• “Naperville/Plainfield Location – VERY DISAPPOINTED”
• “No longer Kid Friendly, Now as Irish as Lucky Charms Cereal”
• “Great burgers and atmosphere”

Tips: Mondays feature 99-cent burgers.

Tommy Nevin’s Pub

Located in Little Italy, this spot offers sports on TVs, shuttles to concerts and sporting events at local venues and more.

Reviews:

• “Great Food”
• “Good Crowds, lousy service and Poor policies”

Tips: Hawkeye’s offers free wireless Internet access.

Hawkeye’s Bar & Grill INC

When term papers are done, collegians make tracks to this Hyde Park bar and grill.

Reviews:

• “wonderful”
• “A relaxed, inexpensive, and stylish Hyde Park bar.”

Woodlawn Tap