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Park Tavern

Near West Side · Gastropub/Sports Bar Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1645 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60612

Park Tavern plants itself a few blocks from the United Center and builds its entire pitch around the walk — or, more precisely, around not walking: a free shuttle runs guests to and from the arena before and after games, which makes this the rare sports bar that's also basically a parking plan.

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The table-tap system that lets you pour your own draft beer right at your table, plus Animal Tots as the one dish regulars keep ordering before a Bulls or Blackhawks game.

The space backs that logistics-first approach with scale — over 10,000 square feet, an oversized beer garden, roughly two dozen TVs, private dining rooms, and multiple levels, built for exactly the kind of pre-game crowd that needs somewhere big enough to absorb it. The real gimmick is at the tables themselves: a table-tap system lets you pour your own draft beer rather than flag down a server, with an average pour running around $6.

The menu leans into shareable bar food — Animal Tots show up as the one dish that keeps getting mentioned by name — built to move fast before first pitch or puck drop. Hours bend around event schedules rather than a fixed weekly rhythm, with sources disagreeing on exact closing times (some list 2 a.m. on Fridays, others closer to 10 or 11 p.m. on weeknights), so the real answer is probably 'later if the United Center has something going on that night.' One directory flags real happy hour specials as existing, but no times or prices turned up anywhere in a dedicated search — worth a call to the bar or a direct visit before counting on a specific deal.

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Park Tavern

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Hours

Conflicting across sources -- OpenTable: Mon-Thu 11am-midnight/Fri 11am-1am/Sat-Sun 2pm-11pm; Time Out: Mon-Wed 11am-midnight/Thu-Fri 11am-2am
weekends built around United Center events; unresolved
📅 Reservations 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (312) 846-6338

Amenities & accessibility

📅Reservations accepted
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
☀️Outdoor seating available

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