The lighted Lee's Unleaded Blues cocktail-lounge sign on a wet South Side corner at night — Photo: Zach Alexander. CC BY 2.0 · Source

Greater Grand Crossing · Chicago, IL

Lee's Unleaded Blues

A Greater Grand Crossing blues lounge back from a long dark stretch: the old cocktail sign and South Side bands.

Live music Historic Cheap beer

City: Chicago, IL
Neighborhood: Greater Grand Crossing
Address: 7401 S. South Chicago Avenue
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Website: leesunleadedblues.com
Why it is listed: Publicly documented as a dive. Source

Hours, a real floor plan, and a map pin will live here once we have them. We do not invent closing times.

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