You’re here for a nightcap and some unexpectedly good eats. – Party packages are available for groups of 20 people or more.Īfter a competitive bowling excursion, walk two blocks west on Fullerton, where you’ll land at Spilled Milk on the corner of California Avenue. Once you pay (it’s $4 to rent shoes), all you do is grab a ball and get throwing. ![]() Bring your crew through its dive bar entrance, racks of bowling balls and then into the 16-lane alley. Life as a music venue stopped in 2004 when it was rumored to have almost shut down for Chicago Park District uses until owners agreed to shift the space’s central focus back to bowling. Bands, including the Alkaline Trio, Shellac, The Blind Staggers, and Fall Out Boy performed there. The New York Times said, “high school bands with only three songs could share a bill with bands that had three albums.” At that time, the business put on about eight shows a week. From 1994 to 2004, it was considered one of the best punk-rock clubs in Chicago. And in the 90s, when bowling fell out of fashion in the neighborhood, it embarked on its live music era. Before it was a bowling alley, it served as an ice factory. While the look hasn’t changed much, its space has teetered between different personalities. What you see today is pretty much what it looked like decades ago. With a history dating back to 1941, this place doesn’t play by the standard rules of time. ![]() If you want to get a sense of what Chicago might have been like over the past half-century, bowl a few games at Fireside Bowl.
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