Green Mill
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The Green Mill, located at 4802 N. Broadway in Chicago, is one of gangster Al Capone's former speakeasies from the Prohibition-era roaring '20s. The bar was also a favorite of Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson.
The bar was opened in 1907 as Pop Morse's Roadhouse. At that time, the bar served as a stopping place for mourners before proceeding to St. Boniface Cemetery. A scant three years later, new owners converted the roadhouse into the Green Mill Gardens. Lantern-lit outdoor dancing ran into the wee hours, carried by headliners like Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker. Actors Wallace Beery and Bronco Billy Anderson "also visited the Gardens, hitching their horses to the outdoor post and settling down for a drink after a days work filming westerns at nearby Spoor and Anderson Studios (known as Essanay Studios)," says the Mill's Web site.
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