There Lounge is on the South Side on Ashland Avenue, an old-school Chicago neighborhood bar that also runs axe throwing alongside the cocktails and nightclub space. The combination is more natural than it sounds: the bar handles the drinks, the axe lanes handle the activity, and the nightclub space fills in on weekends.

Hand-poured drinks, pool, darts. It caters to a 30-and-up crowd that wants a safe, welcoming room without a lot of pretense around it.