How do you get into Speakeasy on 1st?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy on 1st is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speakeasy on 1st sits
Speakeasy on 1st is in LaSalle, Illinois, in the county of the same name, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in LaSalle — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Illinois page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speakeasy on 1st are Back Room at Unc’s, about 650 m 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
You can reach Speakeasy on 1st by phone on (815) 200-9743 and on Facebook.
The address is 854 1st St, LaSalle, IL 61301. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy on 1st we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.