Bar at 26th and Wentworth
[QUOTE=Ghostface89]FYou just have to go there a few times to become a regular. Johnny Tito can be quite the prankster.
Clientel includes some hot Italian and Asian girls at night.[/QUOTE]
Didn't this place used to be a funeral home at one point?
"Funeral Home Bar" near Elegant
[QUOTE=Khai Yai]Didn't this place used to be a funeral home at one point?[/QUOTE]
You have a good memory Khai Yai.
Ethyl's Party Bar at 26th and Wentworth began in the early 1900s as the Colletta Funeral Home. In the mid 1970s they moved operations to 79th and Kedzie fearing the neighborhood was going. (Ironically, the 79th and Kedzie area went bad and 26th Street survived.)
It became a disco bar after the funeral home vacated and now is one of the few old neighborhood bars that Chicago once had in abundance. (I don't count fern bars as real bars!)
The signs of it being a former funeral home are obvious. The niches for flowers are still there and the viewing area for the casket with the deceased is now the small stage. The original stained glass windows are now gone, however.
Many gangster funerals took place here over the years. It is considered haunted and Richard Crowe's supernatural ghost (bus) tours stop here.
Elegent customers ought to utilize this uncut gem of classic Chicago.