Rossi’s Liquors

Rossi’s isn’t a cocktail bar. It’s not even a beer bar. It’s a bar-bar—a perfectly sinister, open-all-day dive for those days when work simply won’t do. (It’s also technically a slashie—half bar/half liquor store—making it a true Chicago institution.) Located smack-dab in the middle of downtown, it’s close enough to the edges of The Loop, River North and Michigan Avenue to serve as a catchall rendezbooze point. Rossi’s is devoid of sunlight and always has at least a strand of Christmas lights thrown up in a corner, underscoring the theory that once inside, the world outside might as well come to a standstill.