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Another flavored entry from Newcity's 2004 Best of Chicago issue:
BEST SINGLES SCENE ON THE NEAR NORTHWEST SIDE
Rainbo Club
A plain, squat box of a room that provides a view of every patron from any point you might stand, the Rainbo Club has acquired decades of legend and lore that ranges from Nelson Algren with Simone de Beauvoir to John Cusack and Uma Thurman, alongside the night-in, night-out workings of the lightly lettered, the paint-pattered, the freshly cute and mid-schooled. But like Francis Bacon’s longtime London haunt, the Colony Room, it is a space that grows with what (or who) you bring to it. A reputation for aloofness and disdain and insularity merely masks its true purpose: a dozen bars at once, where business is done, postures are poked, numbers are taken, sex of surprising variety is exacted. Everybody’s trade.
BEST SINGLES SCENE ON THE NEAR NORTHWEST SIDE
Rainbo Club
A plain, squat box of a room that provides a view of every patron from any point you might stand, the Rainbo Club has acquired decades of legend and lore that ranges from Nelson Algren with Simone de Beauvoir to John Cusack and Uma Thurman, alongside the night-in, night-out workings of the lightly lettered, the paint-pattered, the freshly cute and mid-schooled. But like Francis Bacon’s longtime London haunt, the Colony Room, it is a space that grows with what (or who) you bring to it. A reputation for aloofness and disdain and insularity merely masks its true purpose: a dozen bars at once, where business is done, postures are poked, numbers are taken, sex of surprising variety is exacted. Everybody’s trade.
