![]() Carol’s also sports a brand-new bar and draught line, a modern jukebox and refurbished bathrooms. Warm added a new sound system and took out a few seats along the west wall, replacing them with a sound booth. My answer to them is if we didn't fix it up to code, it would be condos by now.” “We had some people saying we ruined it by fixing it up. ![]() There was a lot of work to do and I'm very conscious that this is one of the last-if not the last-honky tonk left,” he told me. When I heard last year that Ed Warm (a partner at Joe’s on Weed Street and Bub City) was resurrecting this 45-year-old Uptown fixture, my first instinct was to proclaim the second death knell of another beloved watering hole.īut if corner bars are indeed a dying breed in Chicago, what’s the protocol for fixing one up while keeping its soul intact? I’d argue Warm comes damn close. I awoke the next morning in a haze, with old-bar smell on my hair and the bottom of my purse sticky from the floor. The place was packed from wall to wall, and I drank Old Style and whiskey shots while shouting to my dates over warbling honky-tonk covers of Johnny Cash and Sara Evans by the bar’s legendary house band, Diamondback. The last time I went to Carol’s Pub-before it closed in 2016 due to tax debt-was a Friday night in the dead of winter.
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