Chicago bars and restaurants saw customers return in 2022, but late-night hours are being cut as crowds empty out earlier than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kellie Clock, clockwise from top left, Drew Tieng, Frances Fyten, Paige Borgman and Fred Walls hang out at Miller’s Pub in downtown Chicago on Oct. 6, 2022. Miller’s Pub, an 87-year-old South Loop bar and restaurant, hasn’t stayed open until 4 a.m. since before the pandemic.
The Long Room on Irving Park Road, just west of Ashland Avenue in Chicago on Thursday night, Oct. 6, 2022. Since reopening last summer after a year of pandemic restrictions, The Long Room has scrapped staying open until 3 a.m. on Saturdays. Pat Doerr, managing director of the Hospitality Business Association of Chicago, a lobbying group that represents bars, restaurants and music venues, said changes in citywide late-night business is difficult to quantify, but “is down from everyone I talk to.
In a particularly jarring example for Chicago’s old-school night owls, the Green Mill, an Uptown jazz club once swinging until 5 a.m. on weekends, closes Sunday through Thursday shortly after 1 a.m., and at 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Before the pandemic, the Green Mill never closed before 4 a.m., operating solely as a late-night bar five days a week.
“We’re kicking ass and it’s wonderful, but I’m still scared to go late,” Jemilo said. “I hate not doing it, and I don’t know if someday we will, but if you commit to do it, you’ve got to be in it for the long haul — and you might lose a buttload of money waiting for it to come back.”A manager at the White Palace Grill south of the Loop said overnight business remains strong.
Most obvious are pandemic restrictions, which had bars and restaurants closed or limited for indoor business for parts of more than a year, which bred new habits that haven’t gone away with a return to normal operations. Also, countless people continue working from home or in a hybrid model that has them out earlier, even in the middle of the day with a laptop while working.
“We always felt we were competing with other bars and restaurants,” Roper said. “Now we compete with people’s apartments, which are pleasure palaces. And during the pandemic, people made them even nicer.”
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