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?
M.A. Kleen 
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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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Kim – Wasn’t the old guy’s name Brofy?
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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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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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