The Chipp Inn

This is a great «LET’S GET HAMMERED» neighborhood bar.
You won’t find anything fancy and, if you’re like me (which you should be, dammit), you’ll be super happy that there isn’t a Chad/​Trixie to be found in the place.
Just go here with $ 20 and lose some brain cells, ya dingus.

This place is a tiny dive bar in the middle of a neighborhood. The bartender is really nice. Drinks are really straightforward and cheap.
The pool table is TINY, sadly. And the room that it is in is small, so you can’t really get good aim from certain angles. But any bar with a pool table gets extra points in my book.
It’s definitely a place to hit up. I love dive bars. With that said, it’s a dive bar.

I’m the buddy Braydon T is referring to. Everything he said about this bar is true. It’s a true joy coming here.

My buddy and I like to sit at the Chipp Inn bar drinking Blatz’ and doing Malort shots until we can’t remember each others’ names.
I love this place, and you will too. It’s THE PERFECT Chicago neighborhood bar. Tell Mark I said hi.

Solid low key spot to grab a beer with friends.

Great place filled with great people. Been going here over a year and it’s always a positive atmosphere. The staff treats you like your family and prices are more than fair! Highly recommended to good people!

Tactfully hidden on the corner of a side street and an alley, Chipp Inn has certainly rewarded those who happen to stumble upon it over the past century! Although I’m not sure if it was called Chipp Inn back then… Unlike other «dive» bars in the area, this one has craft beer on tap. Enjoyed sampling offerings from Arcade Brewery with Joe the bartender — a neighborhood bloke who doesn’t take no flack from mischievous upstarts, but is happy to strike up a friendly conversation with friendly passerbys at the bar. They also have Hamm’s on tap, which is always a plus. They allow individuals to bring in their own food, too! Excellent vintage, seemingly hidden option in Noble Squre/​West Town/​East Ukie Village.

I’ve lived in WestTown all my life even before it got somewhat gentrified. This local watering hole is one of the best bars in Chicago. If you don’t want the pretentiousness of wicker park or buck town come to The Chipp Inn. Cash only, no food and a pool table, the bare essential that people forget about. It’s a mixed crowd of locals, hipsters and yuppies… And everyone seems to get along great. The bar tenders are good and efficient. If your looking for a blonde with big tits you can flirt with and over Tip, this ain’t the place. This bar is a blue collar, $ 2 Schlitz, PBR and Hamm kinda joint. You can bring in food from the outside and not get any shit for it, come have a beer… You won’t be disappointed.

Dive bar– great beer, great vibe, friendly bartenders. True «neighborhood» dive bar– nothing better!

Great neighborhood dive bar. Cash only… Pool table in the back room is pretty sweet. It was open the whole time we were there on a Friday night, so we were able to play a few games. Up front, there is seating at the bar along with high top tables. Even though it was cold outside, this bar felt very warm and cozy. Great jukebox too!

Cheap beer (Hamms on tap), great bartender, and right of Chicago Ave. and Ashland if you decide to go somewhere else. It’s perfect.

I like my dive bars like I like my police drawings… sketchy.
The Chipp Inn technically iiiis a dive bar… I guess. It’s kinda grimey, it’s cash only, and it’s about the size of a shoebox, but the ratio of normal folks to total degenerates is very much in favor of the less entertaining. I didn’t see one person that I was scared of what they might potentially do…
Call me crazy, but I’d categorize it as more of a local watering hole what with the fancy jukebox and all. Dives don’t let you play tunes from your iPhone. Still any place that beer prices have a 1 on the left side of the decimal point deserve at least 4 stars.

One of the best dives ever! If you are looking for a spot to get away from the yuppie crowds Chip Inn is the place. Cash only and very affordable. The bartenders are great too and easy to strike up a conversation with. Bring singles for the juke box!

Excellent little local dive. Friendly bartenders, great prices. Most folks are drinking Hamms or other cheap domestic beer, but they have a few premium taps if you want to class it up.
A funny recollection I have was one time after we ordered our second round of drinks, the bartender tossed a bag of potato chips our way and said, «Free buffet tonight.»
Another time I specifically stopped by to catch Jeopardy because I knew a contestant that was going to be on that day. I asked the bartender if we could put Jeopardy on in 5 minutes. «We always watch Jeopardy» he said. Nice!

Love this place, especially in the winter. It’s small and cozy, the bartender’s cool, it’s cheap ($ 1.75 for beers on special) and no-​nonsense. It has a worn-​in feeling like it’s been there for ages (it has– check out the old photos by the pool table) and hopefully will live on for ages more. Come with a small group of friends and stay for hours.

I’d take hipsters over bro-​frat guys any day. This place is softball central when it’s warm out and you can’t hear yourself think. If that’s your scene them this is your place.

I love this little dive bar!
The Chipp Inn has just one bartender and honestly that’s just plenty for their Saturday night crowd. The crowd is a mix of people but everyone is quite friendly. They have a jukebox so the music ranges from wanting to blow your brains out top 40 stuff to awesome GnR songs!
They have cans of Blatz & Hamm’s for $ 1.75 — score! Apparently these specials change daily based on what’s scribbled on their chalk board. They also had Little Sumthin Wild on tap, as well as some other good brews.
Pool table in the back is .75 per play — bring quarters. The décor is divey with beer signs all over the walls and the florescent beer signs all around the windows.
It’s a true neighborhood bar without having the feeling of unwelcoming you’ll sometimes catch at those types of spots. My friends and I had never been there before last weekend and we felt right at home. A friend even tipped over my glass of Little Sumthin and the bartender gave me a new one gratis. Now that’s service!
Cash only!

A new Tuesday night, due to a changing work/​life situation. When left to my own devices and without a host (or quasi room mate) to «entertain» me, I will do one of two things: seek out a completely decadent and over indulgent place, spend quite a bit of cash money and either feel edified by that expenditure or let down. The alternative, completely diametric, and more entertaining thing to do — is to look for where the locals drink, preferably slashie style (both bar and liquor store in the same place). While not a slashie — the Chipp certainly didn’t let me down from a «let’s just take it easy» perspective.
Location: 5 out of 5
Literally down the street (half a street) from my new Tuesday night digs. Walking is easy, street parking is available, and if you must take public transportation, the blue line and/​or the Chicago bus are not so far away.
Décor: 4 out of 5
Exactly what I was looking for in a neighborhood joint. Unpretentiously and unironically divey with a pool table as others have mentioned (which wasn’t being used), a simple and somewhat sticky bar, old timey cash register where you have to punch physical tactile keys to get it to work, and old posters, signs, remnants, and memories of bygone times and now hard to find beer manufacturers adorn the somewhat dark and just a little pungent interior. In full transparency, I happened to go on a day when it was in the 90s with high humidity, so perhaps this contributed to what I perceived to be just a little bit of stickiness and dampness.
Quality of Drink Available: 1 to 5 out of 5, so we’ll split it and call it 3, depending on how you want to approach things.
This one is an odd one for the following reasons. I’ve been hard pressed to find a place that has Hamm’s on tap, but Chipp Inn does. But wait… look to the left and to the right, and you see a beerscape that’s as varied as the clientele. 5 Rabbits makes sense because we’re in Chicago. Lagunitas has a Chicago connection now but we’re getting a little bit more «upscale.» Founders? Whoa… crossing all sorts of sociobeerconomic (see what I did there?) boundaries here. This was evident by the other patrons when I went: a younger «hip» couple consuming sandwiches they had brought in and a few blue collar regulars.
The same range goes for the liquor collection, and while you won’t find any haut couture, i.e., boutique flavored vodkas, you’ll see an eclectic mix of whisk (e)y, bourbon, and vodkas. And how could I forget that on Tuesday evenings, you can get the poor man’s boilermaker for 4 $ featuring Beam and the BEAST?! I should also mention that they have Blatz in cans, which is rare® now in Chicago.
Price: 4 out of 5
As someone has mentioned already, it’s cheap but not THAT cheap. 2.50 for a Hamm’s draft, 2 bucks for a can of Blatz. Not breaking the bank by any means, but not quite liquor store singles cheap. I’m not in tune to what the specials are each evening yet, but 4 $ for a Beam and Beast seems reasonable, and I imagine that much entertainment can arise from watching the over consumption of such options. Remember that this place is cash only, though an ATM is available.
Customer Service: 4 out of 5
Friendly guy behind the bar who made small talk well. Didn’t get into any deep conversations about life, love lost, dogs, politics, corruption, etc. but it doesn’t mean that we won’t get there one day. For my first visit — talking about Hamm’s, the beer refreshing! and Blatz was a good introduction to this bar.
Overall: 4 out of 5
Worth a visit if you’re in the area, and I’ll gladly go back to drink old school beers in peace, make small talk with the barkeeps, and hopefully watch and observe the shenaniganry that inevitably accompanies 4 $ shots and beer combos. Keep it classy, keep it safe, and remember that you can bring in your own food (or have it delivered).

Chipp Inn is one of those local dive bars that you can belly up to the bar, sit there for hours and just chill. Chipp Inn is one of my favorite bars for three reasons:
1 — I love a bar where it’s not just hip to order PBR, but seems appropriate.
2 — The local clientele are always entertaining.
3 — It’s always great to have a bartender who you can actually chat with than one who simply wants to serve you a beer and move on to the next customer.
Did I mention they even have $ 2 Hamm’s on Saturdays?
Chipp Inn is a tiny neighborhood bar with a loyal local crowd and cheap drinks. Combine that with a bit of Chicago history and this place is a winner. Sounds like I need to head back there soon.

Really, why did I only give the Chipp Inn four stars?
This place is incredible.
Cheap pool, too.
P. S. That infamous grab bag is only Thursday nights. Just thought I should clarify. Last time I was there, beers include Tecate, Hamm’s, Old Style, Strohs, Old Milwaukee, some kind of green can that says «Special Export» and some others I can’t quite remember.
Honestly… ridiculous. I love that this is basically in my alley.