![]() This area is packed during the Wells Street Art Fair held every June and challenges the staff to prevent patrons from illegally handing beers to those on the street. Upon arrival, you’ll locate the Fireside Inn’s main entrance through the sidewalk café filled with metal high-backed chairs and cocktail tables. However you get there, the Fireplace Inn can easily be spotted with its flaming logo set upon a large, hanging black sign that matches the awning. Chicago Bar Project recommendation: grab a cab or take the Brown Line to Sedgwick and hoof it a few blocks over. The current owner, of the Novak family, even lives upstairs at this unique brick two-flat – how old-school is that? If you’re sado-masochistic and drive to the Fireplace Inn, you’ll find valet parking for $10 out front as you’ve got a snowball’s chance of finding street parking even with the meters along Wells. The building dates back to 1873, having been erected just after the Great Conflagration of 1871, and was listed as belonging to a plumber, insurance broker, bookkeeper, and then the short-lived Rigoletto Opera Café in 1965. The structure now housing the Fireplace Inn was originally opened in 1966 at “John Cale’s Fireplace Inn,” with Richard Novak having opened the present version in 1969. Not to be confused with the Fireside Inn (Ravenswood) or Fireside Bowl (Logan Square), the Fireplace Inn is located in the heart of Old Town, on Wells Street next to the Suite Lounge and across from Burton Place and Bistro Margot. Add to that its long history and you’ll quickly realize why the Fireplace Inn has become an Old Town institution, popular with locals and celebrities alike. In the summer months, your body and spirit will be warmed in the beer garden that doubles the size of the place and could stand as its own sports bar and which is enormously popular for Bears games and the annual Wells Street Art Festival, as is the sidewalk café that offers the best people watching on Wells. He had plenty of tattoos and a greased handlebar mustache and hair.As the name implies, the Fireplace Inn provides plenty of cozy warmth for your externals in winter via their namesake wood-burning centerpiece inside, while your internals will be warmed with some of the best ribs in the city. The Aldermen were 1950’s or something and the guitarist even pulled up outside on a huge chopper. Farm Team was a local band who played absolute noise and I really dug them. Not suprisingly, they were not up to the challenge and stood quietly in the back then left. ![]() Hilger commented live that we love the Misfits and we will play them every fucking time whether anyone likes it or not. The rest of the set of uneventful.ĭuring our set, we played ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’ last by the Misfits especially for him. He ignored me of course and tried to impress and bunch of girls who had come to see us and eventually jumped into the ‘crowd’ (what little there was) and landed on them. ![]() He punched himself a few times and I stood in the near empty club right in front of the stage egging him on for more self-destruction and other taunts. I had no respect for their singer because of his past bullshit and his ‘shocking’ antics which did not fly with me. Musically, I cannot deny that they were tight, original and overall professional. ![]() During their set he wore the same crazy outfit and sweated up a storm. Then he turned to us and I said that that was us. He commented to one of his band members, not knowing that we were the band, “Low Profile…wait a minute…I remember this band”. As we waited outside for the doors to be unlocked, their singer saw a sticker that had been freshly put up about 1 minute ago by Hilger. I was ready to confront them and fight if need be. In short, they had insulted us and also started a fight they couldn’t finish with a wild metal band due to their frontman’s antics. This show was with the Circus - a band we had played with before.
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