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Schubas Tavern
A 200-capacity Lakeview music room inside a restored 1903 Schlitz tied house, with the original tavern character up front and concerts in the back.
- Upcoming shows
- 65
- Capacity
- 200
- Address
- 3159 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
- Phone
- (773) 525-2508
- Next show
- Thu, 8 Oct 2026
About Schubas Tavern
Schubas Tavern is a 200-capacity concert venue in Chicago’s Lakeview, pairing a working neighborhood bar with a compact music room. Its distinguishing feature sits in plain sight: the 1903 building began as a Schlitz Brewery tied house, and two Schlitz globes still mark the corner façade on Southport and Belmont. That brewery-era shell gives a show here a distinctly tavern-scale setting before anyone reaches the stage.
A brewery house becomes a music room
Schlitz built the building in 1903 as a tied house, a bar designed to pour a single brewery’s beer. Chris and Michael Schuba bought it over 80 years later, restoring the 30-foot Brunswick mahogany bar, tin ceilings, walnut wainscoting, exterior details, and Schlitz globe; they renovated the rear concert hall with a used sound system and lighting for weekend shows. Schubas opened under the brothers’ name in 1989.
A sharper recent chapter arrived with the pandemic. The tavern closed in October 2020, then reopened its bar on June 23, 2021; live music returned the following evening after a pause stretching back to March 2020. The reopening placed a full 200 people back in the room, a useful measure of how concentrated the experience feels when a bill draws a full house.
The room today
Expect general-admission shows unless an event says otherwise, with seating unguaranteed; the venue advises arriving about 60 minutes early for the strongest position in the music room. Schubas programs a broad mix centered on indie and rock, alongside pop, jazz, R&B, hip-hop, folk, and alternative bills. The layout delivers the old tavern first, then the renovated concert hall at the back; the restored mahogany bar and tin-ceiling details make pre-show time part of the visit.
Sources
- Schubas / Lincoln Hall information — Schubas Tavern / Lincoln Hall
- Five music venues with significant architecture — Chicago Architecture Center
- Chicago’s former tied houses once linked with Schlitz and other breweries offer a window to history — CBS Chicago
- Schubas Tavern in Lakeview reopens — FOX 32 Chicago
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