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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

An illuminated red-and-black serpent marks one of the few signs of life on a gritty stretch of Ashland Avenue, and behind it sits Chicago's punk rock living room. Cobra Lounge at 235 North Ashland Avenue opened on 17 March 2006 in the shell of the old G and Z Restaurant and Bar, a long-standing workingman's taproom on the near west side, and grew under the late Sean McKeough - the Riot Fest co-founder whose fingerprints are all over Chicago's independent music infrastructure - into a bar, restau...