How do you get into The Circa 21 Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Circa 21 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.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Circa 21 Speakeasy sits
The Circa 21 Speakeasy is in Rock Island, 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 Rock Island — 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 The Circa 21 Speakeasy are The Speakeasy, 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 Rock Island
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 Rock Island:
- The Rock Island Argus and daily union, June 22, 1921 — 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
- The Rock Island Argus and daily union, April 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Rock Island Argus and daily union, May 14, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Circa 21 Speakeasy by phone on (309) 786-2667 and through its own website.
The address is 1818 3rd Ave, Rock Island, IL 61201. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Circa 21 Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, 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.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a comedy club.