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Boomer’s Tap in Des Plaines, Illinois

Michael Kleen
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Boomer’s Tap in Des Plaines, Illinois served as a neighborhood bar at 1000 E. Prairie Avenue for nearly a century, except during Prohibition. According to the Chicago Tribune, efforts to shut it down began after a customer was arrested in November 1999 for trying to sell cocaine to an undercover cop. The Baumhart family of Arlington Heights ran Boomer’s Tap for 50 years. I think it was torn down in early 2002. I passed it plenty of times when I was in high school, but it closed before I turned 21. Does anyone remember this place?

5 responses to “Boomer’s Tap in Des Plaines, Illinois”

  1. Reflections on a Changing Des Plaines – M.A. Kleen Avatar
    Reflections on a Changing Des Plaines – M.A. Kleen

    […] bars and playgrounds that fueled our imaginations have been replaced with sports fields. Even Boomer’s Tap, a bar improbably nestled in a residential neighborhood, has vanished. I always planned to visit it […]

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  2. Will Skou Avatar
    Will Skou

    A friend and I spent many Friday nights closing it down before heading to the Isle of Man at Rand and River.

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  3. Rick Benge Avatar
    Rick Benge

    Kim – Wasn’t the old guy’s name Brofy?

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  4. John Doyle Avatar
    John Doyle

    I played on the Boomer’s 16-inch softball team in the early-mid 70s. We stunk, but we always looked forward to drowning our sorrows back at the Tap.

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  5. Kim L Lewis Avatar
    Kim L Lewis

    We used to go there all the time and all our friends back in the late 80’s early 90’s. It was a fun place to go. There was an old guy that tended bar there forever but I can’t remember his name.

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