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Are you sure about that? Vegas is KNOWN for its nightlife, has more of a 24/7 presence, and has a much more active array of performers that attract a wider variety of talent. Chicago is more of a sports bar-type city with your standard sporting venues and concert halls found in a city its size, as well as Second City and a few nightclubs here and there. It wins on under 21-oriented nightlife (and overall Gen Z culture) and traditional highbrow performances, but it seems like technology has had a much more negative impact on Chicago's than Vegas. I'd wish Chicago had a better skywalk and/or subterranean pedway system though to make those winters a little less intimidating.
Chicago has about as robust a nightlife scene as any city anywhere. There's multiple districts in distinct neighborhoods across the city that provide their own unique vibe/character.
The options are widely diverse from burlesque-speakeasys to corner dive-bars or jazz/blues clubs to luxury roof-top lounges to comedy clubs and storefront theaters to the second largest and most prestigious theater district outside Broadway and there's entire districts of gay-bars to underground raves with every conceivable option in-between.
In warmer months there's dozens of neighborhood/ethnic festivals throughout the city which is probably the most extensive in the nation. I can't believe you reduced it to a 'sports-bar' city which is quite the understatement. I wouldn't say Chicago is too dissimilar to NY's variety all-around, just on a smaller scale. Aside from strip-clubs I don't know what experience isn't readily available.
Chicago has about as robust a nightlife scene as any city anywhere. There's multiple districts in distinct neighborhoods across the city that provide their own unique vibe/character.
The options are widely diverse from burlesque-speakeasys to corner dive-bars or jazz/blues clubs to luxury roof-top lounges to comedy clubs and storefront theaters to the second largest and most prestigious theater district outside Broadway and there's entire districts of gay-bars to underground raves with every conceivable option in-between.
In warmer months there's dozens of neighborhood/ethnic festivals throughout the city which is probably the most extensive in the nation. I can't believe you reduced it to a 'sports-bar' city which is quite the understatement. I wouldn't say Chicago is too dissimilar to NY's variety all-around, just on a smaller scale. Aside from strip-clubs I don't know what experience isn't readily available.
Chicago is one of the few cities in the US which issues a Late Hour Liquor License. Establishments with these liquor licenses are permitted to remain open until 4 AM Monday through Saturday and 5 AM on Sunday.
As of 2023, there were approximately 140 late-night licenses held by bars and restaurants in Chicago.
Chicago is one of the few cities in the US which issues a Late Hour Liquor License. Establishments with these liquor licenses are permitted to remain open until 4 AM Monday through Saturday and 5 AM on Sunday.
As of 2023, there were approximately 140 late-night licenses held by bars and restaurants in Chicago.
The only problem post pandemic, is that not all the bars with late night licenses stay open till 4/5am like they used to do. Green Mill being one example, and Fireside(near Rosehill Cemetery) only operates till 4/5am on certain days only.
Even in the suburbs for the few that allow bars to stay open late(i.e. Niles), many of those bars have cut back to earlier closing times on their own, like Morrison Roadhouse.
Chicago has about as robust a nightlife scene as any city anywhere. There's multiple districts in distinct neighborhoods across the city that provide their own unique vibe/character.
The options are widely diverse from burlesque-speakeasys to corner dive-bars or jazz/blues clubs to luxury roof-top lounges to comedy clubs and storefront theaters to the second largest and most prestigious theater district outside Broadway and there's entire districts of gay-bars to underground raves with every conceivable option in-between.
In warmer months there's dozens of neighborhood/ethnic festivals throughout the city which is probably the most extensive in the nation. I can't believe you reduced it to a 'sports-bar' city which is quite the understatement. I wouldn't say Chicago is too dissimilar to NY's variety all-around, just on a smaller scale. Aside from strip-clubs I don't know what experience isn't readily available.
Chicago doesn’t have anything like the strip. Even if you add up all the districts in Chicago and say “look at all the options”, there’s just the fact that there’s no place like the strip that makes Vegas easily the better nightlife city. That’s why more people fly there than they do Chicago for nightlife
Chicago doesn’t have anything like the strip. Even if you add up all the districts in Chicago and say “look at all the options”, there’s just the fact that there’s no place like the strip that makes Vegas easily the better nightlife city. That’s why more people fly there than they do Chicago for nightlife
Yes, The Strip is unlike anything in the nation when it comes to nightlife as it's objectively the largest centralized location for "fun" in the nation, by a wide margin at that, but it's not most peoples cup of tea and I say that as someone who frequented Vegas on a semi-monthly basis to visit family for years.
Chicago like NYC and (to a degree) Miami go about their gradients of nightlife way differently so it's really hard to compare them to Vegas in that manner.
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