Berlin

Detail: From it's modest beginnings as a quirky video bar in 1983 to its current status as one of the city's best dance clubs, Berlin has maintained its reputation as one of the most unique institutions in Chicago nightlife. Berlin was created as a neighborhood bar for everyone: a place that celebrated diversity, it successfully mixed tattoos and transvestites, pinafores and platforms, dada and go-go, Nina Hagen and Nina Simone, All My Children and Art of Noise, homo and hetero. Everyone was welcome and everyone had a great time...
Berlin's reputation grew quickly, drawing capacity crowds. No one wanted to take a chance of missing something: bartenders dancing on the bar, avant garde/custom video clips playing on the screen, Outrageous performers (like the Del Rubio Triplets, Judy Tenuta, and Edith Prickly) hamming it up onstage.

Today, Berlin has one of the best sound and lighting systems of any club its size in Chicago. The DJs, have been getting national and international exposure as of late, spreading Berlin's sound across America and the Globe. The bartenders are, of course, stars in their own right with devoted followings of loyal customers.