How do you get into Club X Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Club X Speakeasy is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Club X Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Exchequer Restaurant and Pub, critically acclaimed pizza and ribs in the heart of downtown Chicago for over 50 years.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
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 — Club X Speakeasy occupies the McClurg Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 70000235. 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 70000235 · NPS nomination document
Where Club X Speakeasy sits
Club X Speakeasy is in Chicago, Illinois, in Cook County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists 24 speakeasies and hidden bars in Chicago. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Chicago.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Club X Speakeasy are Brando’s Speakeasy, about 250 m away, Speakeasy in the Sky, about 900 m away, and Santa’s Secret Treehouse, about 1.3 km 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 Chicago
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 Chicago:
- The daily worker, December 15, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, July 14, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, August 5, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, October 16, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- MONDAY – WEDNESDAY 11 am – 10 pm
- SUNDAY 11 am – 9 pm
- THURSDAY – SATURDAY 11 am – 11 pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Club X Speakeasy by phone on (312) 399-9463, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 224 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60604. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Club X Speakeasy 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 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.