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		<title>Maude&#8217;s Liquor Bar &#124; West Loop, Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it has wall-length leather chesterfield sofas, and subway tiles and exposed brick, and quality cocktails and good food.  And even &#8216;smashes&#8217; &#8230; but &#8230; but &#8230; The customers.  There&#8217;s something with the customers.  They&#8217;re &#8230; they&#8217;re &#8230; just so proud of being there.  Being successful enough to pay for it and hip enough to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2011/03/13/maudes-liquor-bar-west-loop-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Longman and Eagle &#124; Logan Square, Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Logan Square&#8217;s Longman and Eagle has two quirks: 1) 30 whiskeys for $3 a shot 2) an inn &#8230; in the works. Let&#8217;s start with the weirder one.  This place eventually will have an inn above the bar.  It will be pretty convenient if you&#8217;re a suburban boozer &#8212; get sloshed downstairs, then head up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/07/27/longman-and-eagle-logan-square-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Sky Ride Tap &#124; Chicago Loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, this place is weird. May have to be my new post-work spot now that Old Timer&#8217;s has closed. The Sky Ride Tap &#8230; what&#8217;s the Sky Ride? The train?  They sell &#8216;packaged goods&#8217; &#8230; what are those? And these supposed sandwiches &#8230; hell I&#8217;ll try anything once, but they seem particularly risky. Last thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/07/04/sky-ride-tap-chicago-loop/</link>
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		<title>Revolution Brewery Bar &#124; Logan Square, Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a communist-themed bar, this place has done some serious capital investments. Everything is new and slick &#8212; from the wood-carved fists to the barrel stave walls. It&#8217;s a great place to grab a beer and munch on tasty bar food. The wooden fist of flavor. &#8220;Workingman&#8217;s Mild&#8221; &#8212; a &#8216;luncheon&#8217; beer. Revolution&#8217;s bacon popcorn.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/07/03/revolution-brewery-bar-logan-square-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Light Beer Makes Me Sleep Badly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I would have ever realized this if my father-in-law hadn&#8217;t said anything, but it&#8217;s true: light beer fucks with my sleep.  Something in the reduced caloric intake, it just makes me toss and turn and sleep restlessly. photo credit: kevindooley My father-in-law confessed that it gives him nightmares &#8212; light beer nightmares.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/06/14/light-beer-makes-me-sleep-weird/</link>
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		<title>Old Timer&#8217;s, One Of The Best Dive Bars In Chicago, Is Closing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dammit.  Dammit.  Old Timer&#8217;s is closing.  Rumor on the street is that their building isn&#8217;t renewing their lease.  They&#8217;re being squeezed out after 43 years &#8212; they served their first drink in 1967. Which means going to the Elephant and Castle?  No.  The Tilted Kilt?  Nope.  Emerald Loop?  Meh.  The Gage?  No way.  Dammit. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/05/26/old-timers-one-of-the-best-dive-bars-in-chicago-is-closing/</link>
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		<title>The Three Best New Bar / Restaurants In Lincoln Park &#124; Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something&#8217;s going on in Lincoln Park. When the economy was booming, shit-chic restaurants popped up everywhere.  Now that things are on the rocks, good places are opening up.  What gives?  Here&#8217;s the best of the latest: Gemini Bistro &#124; 2075 N. Lincoln Avenue Sure, Gemini Bistro is billed as &#8216;contemporary American&#8217; food, but what it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/02/22/the-three-best-new-bar-restaurants-in-lincoln-park-chicago/</link>
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		<title>ROCKS Lincoln Park &#124; Schubert, Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want Scotch?  Go here.  Want a swill beer challenge?  Still here. photo credit: lambda_X ROCKS (and I think it&#8217;s supposed to be all-caps) is a whiskey place (whisky too).  They&#8217;ve got a huge booze list that includes everything from Bourbons to single-malts.  Macallan, Johnnie Walker, Talisker, Ardbeg, Glenfiddich &#8212; it&#8217;s all here &#8212; along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/02/14/rocks-lincoln-park-bar-schubert-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Eastsider &#124; Oakland and North, Milwaukee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shot, bar dice, shot, bar dice, shot, bar dice, shot.  There&#8217;s a group at the other end of the bar that&#8217;s getting serious about this drinking thing.  We&#8217;re waiting at the Eastsider for a table at the soon-to-burn Pizza Man Restaurant and Wine Bar nursing beers in anticipation of its mega wine list.  They&#8217;re settling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/01/21/eastsider-bar-oakland-and-north-milwaukee/</link>
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		<title>Dammit, the Pizza Man Wine Bar and Pizza Place Burned Down in Huge East Side Fire &#124; Milwaukee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I was in Milwaukee and had a night free.  I had heard good things about the Pizza Man (an &#8220;East Side institution&#8221;) &#8212; good wine list, great pizza, fun atmosphere &#8212; and it was all true.  A great place.  And today it burned down.  Damn! I barely knew it and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bartannica.com/2010/01/19/dammit-the-pizza-man-wine-bar-and-pizza-place-burned-down/</link>
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