All right, I think I'm missing some, but the list has been updated.

Often I could really go for a piece of pie late at night and I don't know anywhere to go except Omega, and I'd rather not. So I'm now compiling a list of dessert places.
Criteria:
They must serve past 10pm.
The list will include places that specialize in dessert like Margie's, but also diners that never fail to have cakes, pies and fountain creations; restaurants that have a notable dessert list; sweet shops like Sukhadia's, etc.
They all must be places with seating, not take-out only.

I see that some sweets places are listed on the Late Nite Dining list, so once the dessert list gets going, I'll move them. I'll keep everybody posted.

There are over 110 establishments that are open 24 hours in Chicago
Check out http://www.24hourplaces.com and you will see a full list.
Here are just some results:

Steak 'n Egger
1174 W Cermak Rd Chicago, IL, 60608 (get directions)

Walgreen's
3302 W. Belmont Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

Niko's Gyros
2775 N Elston Ave Chicago, IL, 60647 (get directions)

Dominick's
3145 S. Ashland Ave Chicago, IL, 60608 (get directions)

Golden Nugget Pancake House
3234 W Irving Park Rd Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

El Charro
2410 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL, 60647 (get directions)

Scott's Hamburger Heaven
1546 W 35th St Chicago, IL, 60609 (get directions)

CVS
3944 NORTH WESTERN AVENUE Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

Golden Nugget Pancake House
2406 W Diversey Ave Chicago, IL, 60647 (get directions)

Walgreen's
641 N. Clark St Chicago, IL, 60610 (get directions)

glumech wrote:There are over 110 establishments that are open 24 hours in Chicago
Check out http://www.24hourplaces.com and you will see a full list.
Here are just some results:

Walgreen's
3302 W. Belmont Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

CVS
3944 NORTH WESTERN AVENUE Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

Walgreen's
641 N. Clark St Chicago, IL, 60610 (get directions)

I'm not sure these are of much relevance here unless you're looking for a bag of chips and a slim jim.

=R=

I checked that site and of the places it brings up by me at least 1/2 are not 24 hours, most are not open after midnight.

ronnie_suburban wrote:

glumech wrote:There are over 110 establishments that are open 24 hours in Chicago
Check out http://www.24hourplaces.com and you will see a full list.
Here are just some results:

Walgreen's
3302 W. Belmont Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

CVS
3944 NORTH WESTERN AVENUE Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

Walgreen's
641 N. Clark St Chicago, IL, 60610 (get directions)

I'm not sure these are of much relevance here unless you're looking for a bag of chips and a slim jim.

=R=

Actually, I'm partial to the Dominick's at 3145 S. Ashland for my 2 a.m. snack runs. The slim jims there have that certain je ne sais quoi.

Updated to reflect changes in Big Top's Sunday hours (closes early!) and add Niagara Restaurant & Grill (open til 2am!)

glumech wrote:There are over 110 establishments that are open 24 hours in Chicago
Check out http://www.24hourplaces.com and you will see a full list.
Here are just some results:

Steak 'n Egger
1174 W Cermak Rd Chicago, IL, 60608 (get directions)

Walgreen's
3302 W. Belmont Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

Niko's Gyros
2775 N Elston Ave Chicago, IL, 60647 (get directions)

Dominick's
3145 S. Ashland Ave Chicago, IL, 60608 (get directions)

Golden Nugget Pancake House
3234 W Irving Park Rd Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

El Charro
2410 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL, 60647 (get directions)

Scott's Hamburger Heaven
1546 W 35th St Chicago, IL, 60609 (get directions)

CVS
3944 NORTH WESTERN AVENUE Chicago, IL, 60618 (get directions)

Golden Nugget Pancake House
2406 W Diversey Ave Chicago, IL, 60647 (get directions)

Walgreen's
641 N. Clark St Chicago, IL, 60610 (get directions)

Also Scott's Hamburger Heaven is gone and is now a Mexican spot

Updated to include Oakwood 83 and The Rail.

Updated to add a long list of places suggested by ReneG that I somehow kept forgetting to add. We are now up to 152!

Pie Lady wrote:Updated to add a long list of places suggested by ReneG that I somehow kept forgetting to add. We are now up to 152!

Looks like you're forgetting a bunch. Or maybe hours changed or they didn't make the cut for some other reason. I didn't study every detail of your current list but didn't notice Pizza Metro (or Metro II), Baba Palace (see last paragraph), Pakiza, Bai, the new Express Grill (18th & Halsted), the two "Maxwell Street" places I didn't name: 79th Street Grill (79th & Stony) and Chicago's Original Maxwell Street (53rd & Western), the three La Pasaditas on Ashland, Taco Veloz, Raymond's Tacos #2 (or the original on Cermak), Delicias Mexicanas, Belmont Snack Shop (formerly D&L), Hamburger Heaven Express, Dox Grill, Sammy's Red Hots, Maude's Liquor Bar, The Bedford or Lindy's Chili. I see you added a couple Atotonilco locations. Aren't the ones on 47th (Back of the Yards) and Kedzie (Gage Park) still open late?

Shui Wah closed a couple months ago but it's still on the list. As a former list keeper, I found that keeping the information usefully up to date is the hard part.

Rene G wrote:Baba's, Pakiza, Flaming Wok n Grill and a couple other "cabbie joints" in that area ought to be included as well as the similar spots on and around Devon (two were mentioned earlier in this thread). Don't forget the new Turkish place.

The Turkish place is Bai Café. By Baba's I meant the "cabbie joint" at Chicago & Orleans, not Baba's Steak & Lemonade. I'm not sure how you singled out the Baba's on 51st as there must be a couple dozen similar steak & lemonade places with deceptively similar names—it's sort of the Taco Burrito King of the South Side. And that particular Baba's closes before midnight every day of the week so it isn't even open late. If you want to start listing all the late night steak & lemonade places, the sub shops, and the fish & chicken joints of the South and West Sides (not to mention the suburbs) you could probably add at least another fifty places.

I swear I'll get to this soon. Work has been busy lately.

sarcon wrote:Julius Meinl at Montrose & Lincoln is open til midnight

Julius Meinl is actually only open until midnight Fridays and Saturdays. Other days they're open until 10.

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see Fireside Restaurant on here. Food's decent and they're open until 4am - 5am on Saturdays.

Fireside Restaurant
5739 N Ravenswood Chicago, IL. 60640 (773) 561-7433

Also, I know it's not 24hr but Rockwell's Neighborhood Grill off the Rockwell stop on the Brown Line is open until midnight every night of the week.

Around the Clock in Crystal Lake is no longer open around the clock! I thought this was hooey when I first heard it, but nope...they close at midnight during the week and Sundays, 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.

from a comedian's routine, can't remember his name but fairly recent:

I really needed a frozen pizza, so I went to this place near me that says it's open 24 hours, but the door's locked, so I knock & finally a guy shows up & says "Hey. we're closed!" and I say "Whaddya mean 'closed', the sign says you're open 24 hours" and the guy looks at me & says "not in a row!!!!"

I have been lax. Lax, I tell you! The Late-Nite list is woefully out of date. I plan on rebooting this little project. What are the new places serving food til midnight or later? What places are now defunct? I will go through this thread and add/subtract/edit what was missing the last time around, but please let me know what's new.

Since I'm so far behind, I could also use a volunteer to help out with a short-term mini project. As some of you know, I'm quiet. Some may say ridiculously so. Phone conversations go a little something like this:
Me: What are your hours?
Them: We're open!
Me: How late are you open?
Them: 7am.
Me: What are your hours all week?
Them: Yes!
If someone would like to take on the task of verifying the hours of the places already on this list*, I will bake you a pie. Or cookies or brownies, depending on the weather, your location and your preference.
Once the list is fully updated, I can do this verification myself, I just don't have the time right now to do so many since I want to update this thing asap. You do not have to verify any of the information that comes after this post. C'mon...who wants pie?

*All old/out-of-date restaurants will be shaded in orange. Once they are updated, I will unshade them.

After 30 years in business, El Charro has officially closed.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151002 ... -shop-move

Dave148 wrote:

After 30 years in business, El Charro has officially closed.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151002 ... -shop-move

RIP El Charro. Not a great place to eat, but it sure held down that corner, a beacon of warmth in a once desolate stretch of Milwaukee. It really had a great feel, the interior of its double windowed flat iron- style facade perfectly clad with tropical plants. The bull heads. The diner style counter. The cheery waitresses. The spill over of the drunk and deprived from next door Two Way into the wee hours. At least there was a dependable torta de milanesa on the menu. I think I was so hammered in most of my visits there, that's about all I remember (save for an infamous 3 AM order of birria, a big mistake in my psilocybic state of mind at the time, a writhing mass of leathery goat skin, complete with five o'clock shadow).

I was an early gentrifier of that neighborhood. I moved in around 2001, back when the best thing on Lula's menu was the roast chicken dinner (still is?). There were slim pickings in terms of places to eat and buy groceries around there. All we had in walking distance were dimly lit, bleach smelling carnecerias and a handful of taquerias (Moran, still kicking and the underrated Guerrense Don Chema on California). Drinking-wise, I swear we were the first ironic mullet and stash wearing hipsters darkening (both) doors of Helen's Two Way, staving off unsolicited tube sock sales people and trying to avoid eye contact with that lady wearing her underwear on the outside of her pants. Those nights inevitably landed us at the old reliable El Charro.

I left in '06 and things still hadn't changed much, now look at the place!

Clarke's Diner at 6431 N. Sheridan Road is gearing up to open its doors 24 hours a day by late April or early May, Loyola representatives said.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016040 ... ada-center

I miss 24 hour Korean restaurants.