Have fun at Harry's of Arlington in
Arlington Heights ...




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Arlington Heights Bars*
Bill's Inn
20 E Northwest Hwy
CLOSED April 1, 2004

Big Shot Piano Lounge & Restaurant
2 S. Vail Ave.
Arlington Heights, IL -- DOWNTOWN
847-670-6890
bigshotpianolounge.com

Boiler Room CLOSED

Crave -- A Bar & Food Joynt
1204 W Rand Rd
847-259-2602

Fox and Hound Smokehouse & Tavern
910-918 W. Dundee Rd.
847-590-9019

Fuego Mexican Grill & Magarita Bar
fuegomexgrill.com
17 W Campbell St
Arlington Hts, IL -- DOWNTOWN
(847) 590-1122

Gatsby's
427 E Rand Rd
847-253-7200

Harry's of Arlington
1 N Vail Ave
Arlington Heights, IL -- DOWNTOWN
847-577-2525

PeggyKinnanes.com
Campbell & Vail Ave
Arlington Heights, IL -- DOWNTOWN

Redmoon
Very Cool! Check it out ...
Inner sidewalk by Arlington Theater
myspace.com/redmoonthursdays  
Redmoon Thursdays
Arlington Heights, IL -- DOWNTOWN

Area Bars, Taverns & Dance Clubs
Accent Cafe
Alumni Club
Bahama Breeze
Bamboo Room
Bar Louie
Boogie Nights
Circuit Night Club


Durty Nellie's (Nellie's Pub)
(not Dirty Nellies or Dirty Nelly's)
crobar
The Cubby Bear
Emmett's Tavern & Brewing Co
Entourage (Schaumburg)
Excalibur | Club X
Funky Buddha Lounge
Gameworks
House of Blues
Kustom
Lamplighters
(Lamplighter Inn Tavern & Grill)
The Leg Room
McGee's Tavern

Mickey Finn's Brew Pub
Libertyville Brewing
Brewery BrewPub
412 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Libertyville, IL 60048
(847) 362-6688

Mother's (originalmothers.com)
Ontourage
Ringside Sports Elk Grove Village
Riprocksclub.com
Rive Gauche Night Club

Rockit Bar & Grill
22 W Hubbard St
Chicago, IL
(312) 645-6000

Sonotheque.org
Tequila Roadhouse Chicago
Tower Night Club
Twisted Spoke
UN Club UNClub U!N! Club
Vision
VooDoo Night Club
WhiteStar Lounge
Zentra
Zero Gravity Club

See Local Bands in Music

OTHER FAMOUS BARS
Cardinal Bar
Madison, Wisconsin

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LAmusicguide.com

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Key2miami.com

Parrot Lounge
Fort Lauderdale

Pubsofmanchester.com

World's Best Bars

ONLINE INFO & SERVICES

Beer
allaboutbeer.com
beer.com
beerhunter.com
realbeer.com

Mixology
Barnonedrinks.com
Search box below ...

Cocktail.com
drinkboy.com
mixology.com
webtender.com

* Technically, Arlington Heights doesn't have bars. Yes, there are bars inside restaurants, local law requires that all businesses that serve alcohol, must serve food.

So you won't find a bar without a restaurant attached in Arlington Heights and any business that serves liquor isn't considered a bar by those that pay attention to details.


Typical Alcohol By Volume Levels
Fruit juice (naturally occurring): less than 0.1%
Low-alcohol beer: 0.0%–1.2%
Kvass: 0.05%-1.5%
Cider: 2%–8.5%
Beer: 2%–12% (most often 4%–6%)
Alcopops: 4%–17.5%
Mead: 8%-16%
Barley wine (strong ale): 8%–15%
Wine: 9%–18% (most often 12.5%–14.5%)[6]
Dessert wine: 14%-25%
Sake (rice wine): 15% (or 18%–20% if not diluted prior to bottling)
Liqueurs: 15%–55%
Fortified wine: 15.5%–20%[7] (in the European Union, 18%–22%)
Soju: 20%-45% (usually 20%)
Shochu: 25%-45% (usually 25%)
Mezcal, Tequila: 32%-60% (usually 40%)
Vodka: 32%–60% (usually around 40%)
Pure vanilla extract: 35%+
Rum: 37.5%–80%
Sotol: 38%-60%
Nalewka: 40%-45%
Gin: 40%-50%
Whisky: 40%–55% (usually 40% or 43%)
Baijiu: 40%–60%
Palinka: 42%–86%
Rakia and Raki: 42%–86%
Absinthe: 45%–89.9%
Poteen: 60%–95%
Neutral grain spirit: 95%
Rectified spirit: 96.5%
Absolute alcohol: >99%

SPIRITS
Anheuser-Busch
Beefeater Gin
Beck's Beer
Budlight.com
Coors | Coors Lite
Corona
Finlandia Vodka
Heineken
Icehouse -- Plank Road Brewery
Jack Daniels
Jim Beam
Jose Cuervo
Miller Brewing Company
Miller Lite
Pabst Brewsing Company
Rolling Rock
Southern Comfort
Seagram Spirits and Wine
Skyy
Smirnoff Vodka
Stoli Vodka
Tropico Bacardi

Click on BEVERAGES for non-alcohol beverages


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MADD
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Drunk Driving

SADD Online
Students Against
Destructive Decisions

National Commission Against Drunk Driving


Lake Effect (as in Lake Michigan) by Rich Cohen about growing up in the 1980's from the suburbs to Chicago (friends traverse a world of parties, girls, and downtown bars), New Orleans and New York ... about friendships from age 16 to 26.

STORES/DISTRIBUTORS

Arlington Liquor & Wines
401 S Arlington Heights Road
Arlington Heights
847-392-7473

Binny's

Cabernet & Co.
70 S. Evergreen
(847) 590-8655

Wirtz Beverage Illinois
formerly ...
Judge & Dolph, Ltd

Romano Brothers

Teddy's Liquors
1050 E Rand Rd
(847) 368-9170

135 S Arlington Heights Rd
(847) 253-5336

The Tuscan Market & Wine Shop
141 W. Wing Street
847-392-9700

by the Vail Street Market Jewel.

Alcohol by volume (abbreviated as abv or ABV) is a standard measure of how much alcohol (ethanol) is contained in an alcoholic beverage (expressed as a percentage of total volume). The ABV standard is used worldwide.

Bar (also called a pub, tavern, saloon, or taproom) is an establishment that serves drinks, especially alcoholic beverages such as beer, liquor, and cocktails, for consumption on the premises. In Arlington Heights all establishments must serve food. You might say their are no bars, per se -- only retaurants with bars.

Burlesque is a humorous theatrical entertainment involving parody and sometimes grotesque exaggeration. In 20th century America, the burlesque became associated with a variety show in which striptease is the chief attraction.

Clubbers -- people who frequent nightclubs.

Cocktail is a style of mixed drink. Originally a mixture of distilled spirits, sugar, water, and bitters, but today is defined as almost any mixed drink containing alcohol. A cocktail today usually contains one or more types of liquor and one or more mixers, such as bitters, fruit juice, fruit, soda, ice, sugar, honey, milk, cream, or herbs.

Cooler, a tall drink made with liquor, a carbonated beverage, and a fruit garnish.

Crusta, a liquor and citrus drink served in a glass rimmed with sugar.

Cobbler, a beverage made with wine or sherry, citrus juice, and sugar

Dance Party or rave parties are gatherings in private houses, bars], nightclubs or community centres where the guests informally dance to dance music such as pop, disco, electronica, house, techno and trance. The music for dance parties is usually selected and played by a disk jockey (DJ) over a public address (PA) system or a powerful sound system of some kind. Conversation is not an integral part of these parties as those who attend express themselves through their dancing and by gesturing.

Disco is a genre of dance music with its origin in clubs that catered to African American, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. While disco was a form of black commercial pop music and a craze among black gay men especially, it did not catch mainstream attention until it was picked up by the predominantly white gay clubs of New York in the early 1980's. Latinos and women embraced disco as well, and the music eventually expanded to several other popular groups of the time.

Discothèque -- an entertainment venue or club with recorded music played by Disc jockeys through a PA system, rather than an on-stage band. Prior to the discothèque, most bars and nightclubs used live bands as entertainment.

Fix, a mixture of liquor, citrus, and sugar.

Fizz, a fix with a carbonated beverage added

Go-Go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at a discotheque. They are usually fit an provocative dancer that are elevated above the crowd on a stage or platform.

Highball is the name for a family of mixed drinks that are composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer. Originally, the most common highball was made with Scotch whisky and carbonated water. Common Highball drinks: Harvey Wallbanger (vodka, Galliano, and orange juice), Jack and Coke (Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey and Coca-Cola), Cuba Libre (Cola, lime, and rum aka 'Rum & Coke'), Scotch and Soda, Seven and Seven (Seagram's Seven Crown Blended Whiskey and 7-Up), the Moscow Mule (vodka, ginger beer, and lime, served in a copper mug), the gin and tonic, and Sex on the Beach (Seagram's 7 whisky and 7 Up, garnished with a lemon wedge). A highball is typically served in large straight-sided glass, for example, a highball glass or a Collins glass, with ice.

House Music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American[1] and Latino American, French and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City, New Jersey, Detroit and Miami. It eventually reached Europe before becoming infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.

'House' is strongly influenced by elements of soul- and funk-infused varieties of disco. House generally mimics disco's percussion, especially the use of a prominent bass drum on every beat, but may feature a prominent synthesizer bassline, electronic drums, electronic effects, funk and pop samples, and reverb- or delay-enhanced vocals.

Nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. A nightclub is usually distinguished from bars, pubs or taverns by the inclusion of a dance floor and a DJ booth, where a DJ plays recorded dance and pop music.

Proof (Alcoholic) Alcoholic proof is a measure of how much alcohol (i.e., ethanol) is contained in an alcoholic beverage. In the United States it is defined as twice the percentage of alcohol by volume, and has caused some people to question the necessity of dual labeling. In the United Kingdom, the proof-to-ABV ratio is 7:4. For example, in the U.S., 100-proof whiskey contains 50% alcohol by volume; 86-proof whiskey contains 43% alcohol.

Stripper is an erotic or exotic dancer in who gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. Many communities prohibit total nudity. Regulations are often combined with liquor regulations ... for example total nudity is not allowed if liquor is served by the establishment.

Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have developed.

Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 155 BPM (FAST), short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. Trance can be understood as a combination of many forms of electronic music such as industrial, techno, and house.

Whiskey Sour is a famous mixed drink containing Bourbon whiskey, lemon juice, sugar, and optionally a dash of egg white to make it a Boston Sour. It is shaken and served either straight or over ice. The traditional garnish is half an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.

Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made of fermented grape juice.[1] The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients.[2] Wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast consumes the sugars found in the grapes and converts them into alcohol. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are used depending on the type of wine being produced.

Wine cooler is an alcoholic beverage made from wine and fruit juice, often in combination with a carbonated beverage and sugar.