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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Bar-Hopping in Rochelle, Illinois

Next time you're cruising the Lincoln Highway in Illinois, you can stop in Rochelle, Illinois, to slake your thirst and get a bite to eat at several bars all located a short distance south of the Hub Theater in downtown.

Even better, they are all pretty much withing a block of each other.

We were there back in 2007, so I can't guarantee that they have the same name or specials.

DA PLACE-- With a sign reading DIZMUZBEDAPLACE featuring $1.25 drafts and located right across from the historic gas station.

STUMBLE INN-- $1.50 pints all the time. Very friendly bartender. Fried bologna sandwiches.

CHISUM'S LOUNGE-- $1.50 for 12 oz. draft. Lots of wood and a Packer bar. Karaoke Friday and Saturday.

HUB LOUNGE-- pitched ceiling and whole inside reminded me of a Northwoods bar. Homemade football signs of the old NFL Central Division: Bucs old logo, Lions, Bears, Vikings and Packers. Also, the LA Rams. When cows fly hanging from the ceiling and a sign saying we're 808 miles from Wall Drugs.

A hundred years ago, this was a meat shop and it has been a bar for at least 60 years. There is an old tin ceiling about six feet above the pitched one.

Still a couple more to go.

Good Way to Get the Dust Out of Your Mouth. --RoadDog

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