How do you get into Hound’s Rest?
We have not confirmed it. Hound’s Rest is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Hound’s Rest
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bronx, Monkey Gland, and Hanky Panky are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Hound’s Rest occupies the Building at 201 North Market Street, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 97001335. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 97001335 · NPS nomination document
Where Hound’s Rest sits
Hound’s Rest is in Champaign, Illinois, in the county of the same name, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists six speakeasies and hidden bars in Champaign. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Champaign.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Hound’s Rest are The Blind Pig Co., a few doors away, The Blind Pig Brewery, a few doors away, and Dandy Hound, a few doors away.
Illinois holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Illinois speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Illinois
Illinois came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Illinois.
What the newspapers recorded in Illinois
Searching the Library of Congress run of Illinois newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Illinois:
- The Rock Island Argus and daily union, April 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Chicago whip, May 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer, November 26, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Rock Island Argus and daily union, December 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Tuesday to Saturday, 3pm to midnight
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Hound’s Rest by phone on (217) 398-1532, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 120 North Walnut Street, Champaign, IL 61820. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Hound’s Rest we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold an online booking link.
It is in the directory because the map tags on the record include a blind-pig tag.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.