Green Door Tavern

Green Door Tavern is a bar on Orleans Street in River North, set in a wooden building that went up soon after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The tavern calls the place Chicago’s oldest tavern and dates tavern service to 1921. Downstairs, The Drifter cocktail bar occupies what the tavern says is the only remaining speakeasy room from Prohibition.

What to know

• James McCole built the two-story, balloon-frame structure in 1872, according to the tavern.
• The way to The Drifter starts at the main door and leads down a flight of stairs.
• The Infatuation reports that the restrooms are in the basement, near the disguised doorknob that opens The Drifter.
• The tavern’s site links to The Drifter’s own site at thedrifterchicago.com.