• <eat name="Cafe Nine 17" alt="" address="917 E 79th St" directions="" phone="+1 773 723-2222" url="" hours="T W 11AM-9PM, Th-Sa 11AM-10PM, Su noon-9PM" price="$4-8" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">A sandwich shop/eatery with open mic poetry nights T-W. The owner is openly gay and markets the cafe as a safe spot for the South Side LGBT community.</eat>
  • <listing name="The Woodshop Art Gallery" alt="" address="441 E 75th St" directions="" phone="+1 773 994-6666" url="" hours="M,W-Sa 9AM-6PM" price="" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">Offers paintings and contemporary furniture by African-American artists as well as Haitian art, all at quite reasonable prices.</listing>
  • <buy name="Premonition Fashion" alt="" address="8159 S Stony Island Ave" directions="" phone="+1 773 374-4472" url="http://premfash.com/" hours="M-Sa 11AM-7PM, Su by appointment" price="All items $10-50" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">A boutique specializing in trendy, very fashionable clothes by local designers for women of all sizes. The prices are outrageously low.</buy>
  • <listing name="The Underground Afrocentric Book Store" alt="" directions="" address="1727 E 87th St" phone="+1 773 768-8869" email="" fax="" hours="M-Sa 11AM-7PM" price="" url="">Books by and about African-Americans. Prides itself on distributing new and controversial publications. Also sells recordings of speeches by African-American leaders, African clothing, and other odds and ends.</listing>
  • Harold's #40, 307 E 55th St, ☎ +1 773 373-9016. 10AM-3AM daily.
  • <drink name="Natasha's Rome" alt="" address="2441 W 69th St" directions="" phone="+1 773 842-9816" email="" fax="" url="" hours="M-F 5PM-2AM, Sa 5PM-3AM, Su 3PM-2AM" price="">This is the nicest club in the Marquette Park neighborhood, with a laid-back bar on each of its two floors. Willie T performs live blues on Fridays, Sundays feature spoken word night, and the rest of the time there is a DJ spinning R&B and other pop music. Locals usually dominate the crowd, except on Fridays and Sundays.</drink>
  • <drink name="Reese's Lounge" alt="Burnside Lounge" directions="" address="1827 W 87th St" phone="+1 773 238-1993" email="" fax="" hours="11AM-2AM daily" price="Dinners $5-6" url="">Live DJs W-Su, Sunday nights are all-jazz. Dress nicely, it's a swanky place.</drink>
  • <drink name="Tina's" alt="" address="5440 S Narragansett Ave" directions="" phone="+1 773 586-8767" url="" hours="M-Th 4PM-10PM, F-Sa 11AM-11PM, Su 2PM-10PM" price="" lat="" long="" email="" fax="">A divey neighborhood sports bar that rises above the crowd for its thin-crust and stuffed Chicago style pizzas. Otherwise, cheap drinks and free pool are the draws.</drink>