Established in 1999.
In 1999, Jimmy Keup and Joe Maggio purchased the Rogers Park gay bar, Numbers, and turned it into The Jackhammer Complex. After frequenting The Gold Coast—Chicago’s first official gay leather bar, opened by Chuck Renslow and partner Dom Orejudos in 1958—Keup and Maggio sought to create a space inclusive of race and gender identity where the entire LGBT+ community, regardless of age, could express themselves. 2Bears Tavern Group acquired The Jackhammer Complex in 2018 and totally reinvigorated the space. Our goal is to preserve and celebrate the culture of spaces like those that we’ve lost, and continue to lose, including many historic and monumental venues across the country and throughout the world following the AIDS Crisis and COVID-19 pandemic
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- Wednesday05:00 PM - 04:00 AM
- Thursday05:00 PM - 04:00 AM
- Friday05:00 PM - 04:00 AM
- Saturday05:00 PM - 05:00 AM
- Sunday02:00 PM - 04:00 AM
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