Community Corner
Chicago Hauntings: The L&L Tavern, Known As ‘The Creepiest Bar In USA'
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer liked to sit by the window at the bar and stare at young men across the street at the Dunkin' Donuts.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Remember old Clark and Belmont — the land of Punkin’ Donuts and The Alley shops, the epicenter of punk and counterculture in Chicago? This is how Alexis Thomas — the daughter of The Alley’s founder and owner Mark Thomas — described that storied intersection in its heyday in a 2009 Newcity article:
“Kids with mohawks and leather jackets sat next to my lemonade stand with their jelly donuts and cigarettes. Skinheads, oi punks, riot grrrls, ’77 punks and metalheads crowded into tight circles and broke into the kind of fights that were all fists and snot and blood.”
You don’t see that so much anymore. A Target store now anchors the northwest corner of the intersection where that Dunkin’ Donuts we all knew as Punkin’ Donuts and its parking lot once sat. But across the street, another mainstay — the L&L Tavern — remains much as it’s ever been in its storefront at 3207 N. Clark St. on the ground floor of a massive brick building.
