I don't know where it is but I do know, I'll never step foot in the friggin' place because of the obnoxious ad playing on here!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I think there is, or at least there was, one at Woodfield. My wife and I went there about 28 years ago when we were first dating. She liked the stuffed mushrooms.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

It closed a few years ago. There's a Longhorn Steakhouse there now.

There was one at Stratford square?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

a football field east of Michigan on Wacker

59 & 95th in Naperville.

Went once before a movie. Meh.

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Nice patio though.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

There used to be one in Lake Geneva, attached to The Cove, because we thought we were a little too good for T.G.I. Friday's or something. Now it's branded as Sprecher's Pub, though I can't tell the difference in menus. What I remember most about it was that it was unwittingly (I hope) built with a whispering gallery, and so if you sat in the right spot, you could hear everyone's conversations.

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Sprecher's is good for Lake Geneva.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Yeah, it's always been a terrible restaurant town. People caring enough about food to blog about it has decimated LG's tourism sector. At least they'll always have the drug trafficking.

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You just wait until the people who eat breakfasts and rate them roll in to town!

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

How True! I was in Sprechers,it was no big deal but about 3 steps above the other joints I was in.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Where did you even go? Next Door Pub? Popeye's? Speedo's?

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Algonquin Commons. Nice outdoor area there as well.

CH, tell us more stories about your tortured childhood in Lake Geneva.

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Shutting down that awesome vintage arcade on the main strip has also decimated LG's tourism sector.

I say that in jest, but actually it strikes me as somewhat true. Lake Geneva--or at least the downtown area--just isn't as fun today as it used to be for kids.

Thirty years ago, the moribund lakefront "arcade"that now houses a hodgepodge of businesses targeting a non-existent clientele was a bustling entertainment center featuring tons of pinball machines, video games, comic book/game vendors and other attractions for kids and teenagers. It was hugely popular. Then something happened and it disappeared. And in the ensuing years, traffic to the downtown area/public beach seemed to evaporate.

The town really suffers from an identity crisis. Is it an upscale getaway destination for affluent Chicagoans? A reasonably priced family vacation spot? Or a playground for college kids. The last time I was there, maybe five years ago or so, it wanted to be all of these things and thus failed in each area.

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Yeah, Gameland. What killed them was the new movie theater outside of town having a big arcade in the lobby. I don't think they ever updated their games, and it always looked dank and depressing from the outside. Besides, by 2000, who was playing arcade games when you could stay home? Why do anything when you can stay home these days, right? And there were also rumors that with shit else going on there by the end, there were lots of drugs changing hands there. Wouldn't surprise me. I know the KFC was a big drug spot; don't ask why it was, don't ask why I know.


This is on the money. I'd say it fails to be a college-kid playground the most of the three. Unless you're just going to sit on a boat at Taco Beach (I'm sorry) all day, what is there for college kids to do?

One of the more tone-deaf things I saw in LG was the opening of "Ryan Braun's Restaurant," a non-descript Houlihan's-ish place a few blocks north of downtown, just far enough to be a pain in the ass to walk to when you can just go to Popeye's. This is a town where half the residents are from Chicago and all the visitors are from Chicago. Why would anyone go to a mediocre restaurant named for a member of the Milwaukee Brewers? What was anyone thinking? It failed in short order and is now an Italian restaurant. Run by Greeks. Last I saw, it was doing fine.

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Gameland was the name of the place on the main strip, right? I loved that place, but I'm rather circuitously referencing another place. A few decades ago that big boathouse/shopping mall area right off the beach was a very popular arcade/entertainment center. It was a lot of fun for kids and helped draw crowds to the otherwise pedestrian beach area (especially compared to the great, classic and sadly no longer extant water slide beaches in and around Wauconda--one of which is briefly included near the end of Blues Brothers). Once the lakefront arcade was killed, families gradually stopped flocking to the downtown area.

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