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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

Comedian Jeffrey Ross opened a set here by looking around and deadpanning that the place would be great when they finished it - thirty years after it opened. That is the joke Zanies has always been in on: Chicago's longest-running comedy club, at 1548 North Wells Street in Old Town, trades on its tight, worn, gloriously unimproved room. Rick Uchwat opened Zanies in November 1978 as an all-around entertainment club - improv, music, stand-up - before going all-in on stand-up in 1980, perfectly ti...