The Hideout Inn
The Hideout Inn is a music venue located in an industrial area between Lincoln Park and Bucktown neighborhoods of Chicago. It is an important venue for live rock music since it was purchased by long-time friends, Tim and Katie Tuten, and Mike and Jim Hinchsliff in 1996.[1]
The front bar of the Hideout was originally a balloon-frame house built in 1890 and the rear performance area was built in the ‘50s.[2] Tim Tuten gave a brief history of the balloon-framed building to the Chicago Tribune:
It was likely built by Irish workers in the late 1800s, then over time went from being a home to a public house, then an illegal bar run by Irish bootleggers — the Irish were dredging the Chicago River then, and building the grain elevators around Goose Island, building the subways. So Prohibition ends in 1933. And then it becomes an legal bar in 1934 — also called the Hideout. Then it falls into the hands of the Italians, who ran it for 49 years. Then we come in.— [3]
Since 1996, the venue has hosted the Hideout Block Party which Chicago Magazine described as “perennially the best music fest of the year.”[4] For ten weeks in the summer of 2015, the Hideout opened a pop-up location along the Chicago Riverwalk between State and Wabash streets.[1]