The third title in our Dive Bar series, Chicago’s Best Dive Bars features opinionated reviews of over 90 of the grungiest and grittiest drinking establishments in the Windy City. If you want to avoid the tourist traps listed in those “other” bar guides and find out where the “real” people do their drinking, then Chicago’s Best Dive Bars, like its New York and San Francisco predecessors, is the drinking person’s guide to the delightfully filthy underside of Chicago bar life.

Jonathan Stockton is freelance writer, proofreader and Leap Year Baby. He lives, works and recovers the next day in Chicago.