The facade of the bar is as inviting as a slaughterhouse with its 50s style yellow brick, glass blocks, tiny window, small black and white wooden sign painted to look like rusted steel, and a battered metal door. The closest bars include McDunna’s east on Fullerton and the Player’s Club around the corner on Ashland (i.e., you’re in the back of beyond). The club is located between Clybourn and the Metra tracks on Fullerton. Unless you’ve heard of the Liar’s Club, it is unlikely that you would happen to run across it. For the faint of heart, be forewarned: as one of their ads proclaimed, the Liar’s Club is a place where, “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,” (Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker prior to their foray into the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope). The joint is also reputed to be haunted, because of a woman who was butchered on the premises, and Joe Walsh is reputed to have lived upstairs prior to the Liar’s Club. With its red-lit, black painted gothic interior, the Liar’s Club is a hit with those of you who like Delilah’s and the Lincoln Tap Room but are looking to dance or see a band (a recent addition) and pick up. Photo courtesy of Rebecca BriaThe Liar’s Club is one of the most unique Chicago clubs and one of my personal favorites.
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