As the world recognizes the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, we sent photographers to three of the city’s oldest gay bars — one on the South Side, one on the North Side, and one right in between.
In the first installment of our series on the city’s oldest gay bars, we visit the South Shore stalwart — Chicago’s only black-owned establishment of its kind.
Closing out our historical gay bar series is this under-the-radar downtown hideaway, which has provided a refuge for locals and tourists alike for 35 years.