The neighborhood tavern may be closing, but it's forever a part of Chicago's boozy, haunted history. When news broke in May that the California Clipper was permanently closing, people began to talk. Not just about the circumstances of the bar's closure"which owner and boutique restaurateur Brendan Sodikoff claimed was due to the financial strain of the pandemic"but about the bar's histor…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:40AM on September 16, 2020