Address 1354 West Wabansia Built 1890 | Location Chicago, Illinois Opened 1933 | |
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Similar Schubas Tavern, Old Town School of Folk Music, Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Beat Kitchen, Bottom Lounge | ||
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The Hideout (officially The Hideout Inn) is a music venue located in an industrial area between Lincoln Park and Bucktown neighborhoods of Chicago. It is an important venue for live rock music since it was purchased by long-time friends, Tim and Katie Tuten, and Mike and Jim Hinchsliff in 1996.
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History
The front bar of the Hideout was originally a balloon-frame house built in 1890 and the rear performance area was built in the ‘50s. The building has operated as a public house since 1916. In 2011, Tim Tuten gave a brief history of the balloon-framed building to the Chicago Tribune:
It was likely built by Irish workers in the late 1800s, then over time went from being a home to a public house, then an illegal bar run by Irish bootleggers — the Irish were dredging the Chicago River then, and building the grain elevators around Goose Island, building the subways. So Prohibition ends in 1933. And then it becomes a legal bar in 1934 — also called the Hideout. Then it falls into the hands of the Italians, who ran it for 49 years. Then we come in.
Since 1996, the venue has hosted the Hideout Block Party which Chicago Magazine described as “perennially the best music fest of the year.” For ten weeks in the summer of 2015, the Hideout opened a pop-up location along the Chicago Riverwalk between State and Wabash streets.
In 2016, Thrillist named The Hideout one of "The Most Important Bars in Chicago" and Consequence of Sound named it one of "The Greatest American Music Venues". In 2017, Chicago Magazine named the Hideout one of "Chicago’s 50 Best Bars", describing its clientele as "vinyl collectors and the lovably frumpy," and the Tribune said, "if there’s anywhere that feels like drinking in your family living room, it’s this legendary music lounge neighborhood tavern."
The Grammy nominated Mavis Staples album Live: Hope at the Hideout was recorded at the Hideout in a 2008. The WTTW public television program “The Interview Show”, hosted by Mark Bazer, is filmed at the Hideout.