JIMMY JONES

"It's not unusual for me to see and know everybody's name after a Cub game."

In Chicago, who you are is where you're from. North Side, South Side, Rogers Park, Gage Park: people know you by your neighborhood. Jimmy Jones was reared in Lakeview in the not-so distant past when factory workers raised families there. In 1984 Jimmy embraced a dream when he took the old hood's new nickname and opened "The Wrigleyville Tap", a phone-booth popup from his boyhood home and a loud foul from Wrigley Field. In addition to brewskies, Jimmy dispensed the warmth that made his place one of our endangered species: a neighborhood tavern in a world of theme bars. Could a joint like that last for very long?