How do you get into The Gatsby Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Gatsby 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 The Gatsby Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “A password-required 1920’s period speakeasy offering Chicago’s best bespoke prohibition-era cocktails in a hidden, vintage atmosphere. Book your reserva…” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a 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 The Gatsby Speakeasy sits
The Gatsby 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 The Gatsby Speakeasy are Hidden Shamrock, about 750 m away, Royals Speakeasy Pizza, about 1.3 km away, and Speakeasy Chicago, about 3.0 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
You can reach The Gatsby Speakeasy by phone on (773) 883-5282, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 736 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Gatsby Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.