Meals $5-$5-$117143 D Street, + 1 760 243 9938, no website 11 The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Chicago The Green Mill is the place for late-night jazz and cocktails.
The Green Mill is the place for late-night jazz and cocktails.
The Green Mill illustrates perfectly the difference between a theme bar and a real bar.
Thursdays at Chicago's Green Mill are every bit as special as the jazz buffs say.
"We don't have to reinvent the wheel," said Andre Morrison, an executive at Green Mill Global, which makes lighting products.
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But from his base here at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Marc Kelly Smith expresses mixed feelings about the growing popularity and respectability of the art form that he created almost 25 years ago.
On his late-night set at the Green Mill (2 a.m. to 3 a.m. each Thursday), he uses his current workhorse, a Yamaha Custom-Z with silver plating that helps generate a big, flexible tone.
You run into it everywhere: in the art galleries scattered throughout the River North section of the city; in jazz clubs like the funky Checkerboard Lounge on the South Side or the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge to the north, a crowded, smoky club that's been around for almost 100 years and wears its age proudly.
The Green Mill remains a stalwart of old-time good times, jumping till the early hours, with guests that dress the part: feather fascinators sticking out from ladies' hats, men of all ages in homburgs and trilbys dancing the Charleston and the jitterbug, sipping whisky and gin cocktails chased down with a shot of Jeppson's Malört, a local spirit that slips down about as smooth as granite.
Even today, Green Mill couldn't be more gangster if it insisted everyone wore trilbies and carried violin cases.
