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Carola's Hansa Clipper

FoodLincoln Square · German Dive Bar Community-sourced, unverified
📍 4659 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625

Carola's Hansa Clipper is the un-gentrified version of Lincoln Square's German bar scene — a bare-bones room with Christmas lights strung up year-round and a sign out that hasn't visibly changed since 1975.

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The one real deal worth knowing: $6 homemade jager bombs, hand-lettered and unmissable.

It's a laid-back, chatty-crowd kind of place rather than a destination cocktail bar, open genuinely late (2am most nights, 3am Saturdays) for a neighborhood that doesn't have a ton of other late options.

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Hours

Sun-Fri10AM-2AM
Sat10AM-3AM
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 878-3662

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❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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