Hyde Park Book Club – Monday, June 20, 2022, 7:30pm

The Event will be held IN PERSON at the Woodlawn Tap (Chicago, IL 60615) with June Sawyer, author of Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar.

Join author June Skinner Sawyers and singer-songwriter Chris Farrell

Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago’s neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago’s first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers will join us at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap for beer, music by Chris Farrell and a trip through the history of Chicago beer from the early years through Prohibition and organized crime to today’s craft beer revival.
Come and celebrate Chicago’s corner bars!

THE HYDE PARK BOOK CLUB
IS JOINTLY SPONSORED BY:
The Hyde Park Historical Society and the Chicago Hyde Park Village See less