The first Chicago bar I drank in was the Old Town Ale House. That bar was destroyed by fire in the 1960s, and the Ale House moved directly across the street to its present location, where it has been named Chicago's Best Dive Bar--by the Chicago Triune, I think. I returned to the North Avenue drinking scene on New Year's Eve 1966, opening night of the legendary O'Rourke's, two blocks directly west.