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Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. For now. Jim Stephens is hiding when we greet him at his under-construction spot at Clark and Argyle Streets. But curious passersby keep interrupting his work.

A Chicagoland native, Stephens, chicago, was a cabinetmaker by day the new space boasts his beautiful craftsmanship while by night working at the Chicago Eagle, a fetish bar owned by International Mr. Leather founder Chuck Renslow. InStephens quit his day job to eagle drinks and manage the Eagle full-time.

The bar closed in Apriland Stephens spent renovating the place and, this past February, applied for a liquor license. He was denied. According to Stephens, some neighbors objected to both Renslow and his tenant Eagle Leathers. Stephens met with some of the neighbors and persuaded them to send letters to help appeal his denied request for a license, but another problem came to light: Renslow is a convicted felon, and thus cannot own a liquor license.

I determined I wanted nothing more to bar with liquor licenses or bars. Knee-deep in debt, Stephens soldiered on. And he might use the would-be back room for live music. Who gay, I may find a way to have both. Been there, done that? Think again, my friend. About us. Contact us. Time Out magazine. No thanks Subscribe.

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