Archer Heights

Thirsty Thursdays appears to be the social media equivalent of RedEye Chicago, Chicago Magazine, and Time Out Chicago and covers bars and events throughout the entire city. Appears you can subscribe to their site and enter comments about any bar. At the site did not see any connection to the Ruben guy. Went to the Facebook site you listed and did not see pictures of any dancing on the bar at Club Karlov. Maybe those have been pulled.

Relayed your comments to the AHCA and response was up until the proposed rave event that was stopped, there has not been any complaints about Club Karlov from any of the people living in that area. The city shutdown of the hall remains in place and if anyone living near there sees an event going on in the hall, they should call 911 since the CPD 8 th District is aware of the shutdown and has to act on any complaints received.

AHCA also has their meeting tomorrow at the UNO school and if you have specific information about that bar you should bring it up at the meeting or privately to their senior officers (President or Exec. Dir) or call their office 773-843-2232.

Yes, the photos were pulled and the page has been cleaned up. My only consolation is that another reader (AH Citizen) confirmed seeing the photos of female dancers on the bar and thought that what was shown didn’t look very good.

The Southwest Chicago Post (http://www.swchicagopost.com/2012/04/city-inspectors-shut-down-club-karlov.html) article about Club Karlov cites, "Ruben Pantoja, who bills himself professionally as Ruben Prestige. Pantoja books disc jockeys, exotic dancers from the GOGO Dancer5 group . . . Prestige Chicago also stages "Thirsty Thursday" events weekly at Club Karlov, which typically run until 2:00 a.m.” The article also includes a photo of one of Prestige’s advertisements for Thirsty Thursdays at Club Karlov. If he’s running events in the bar shouldn’t a public amusement license be required?

With recent events at this business – attempting to stage a rave illegally, the business closure notice disappearing and then reappearing – I just don’t see any positive contribution to the AH community.

Thanks for the AHCA references, your help and contributing to this discussion, it’s good that neighbors can discuss these things.