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Ham Tree Inn

Jefferson Park · Bar Community-sourced, unverified
📍 5333 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60630

Ham Tree Inn is the kind of Jefferson Park dive bar that wears its age honestly rather than renovating it away.

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A faded exterior mural still honestly promising '101 beers' from an earlier, bigger-selection era

A faded mural on the exterior still advertises '101 beers,' a promise from an earlier era of the bar that the current, smaller tap and bottle selection no longer quite lives up to — and nobody's bothered to paint over it, which says something about the bar's whole unpretentious ethos. DNAinfo has called it a '30-year-old drinking hole,' the kind of longevity that doesn't come with press releases or renovations, just regulars who keep showing up. Beers run cheap, averaging around $3, and a free pool table gives the room something to do beyond drinking.

The real seasonal draw is the beer garden out back — shaded, low-key, and a genuine neighborhood gathering spot once the weather turns warm, a rarity among dive bars this unpolished. Hours stretch late into the night daily, open until 2am most of the week and 3am on Saturdays, making it a reliable late-night option on the Milwaukee Avenue corridor in Jefferson Park. It's not a destination bar for out-of-towners — it's the kind of place that exists purely for the people who already live nearby.

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Ham Tree Inn

Jefferson ParkCommunity

Hours

Sun-Fri10am-2am
Sat10am-3am
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
☀️Outdoor seating available

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