Archie’s Cafe

Ghosts of Halloweens past. The fun continues tonight as we Halloween Pub Crawl! Dress up (or be boring) either way, join us!
Starting at Cary’s Lounge 7pm
Complete crawl strategy in previous post.
Scare you there!👻

Let’s get together and do a little Halloween pub crawl! We’ll start at Cary’s Lounge, then crawl, bus, bike, walk or Lyft onward. Wear a costume, bare your fangs, meet us for the whole evening or just for a quick one, be great to see you! 👻
Cary’s Lounge-7-9pm 2251 W. Devon
Randall’s Pub -9-10pm 6341 N Clark St
The Glenwood-10-11pm 6962 N Glenwood Ave.
The Lighthouse-11-Midnight 7301 N Sheridan
The Oasis-Midnight ➡️ 6809 N. Sheridan Rd

Beautiful weekend coming up! Celebrate the arts near and far. In our old haunt, our neighbor, Roman Susan founder Kristin Abhalter opening her Double Stitch collection Friday night. Also Friday, if you feel like getting out of the neighborhood, DJ extraordinaire Shon Dervis will be spinning vinyl at the Stony Island Arts Bank, 5-8 pm. Saturday Reproductive Justice is hosting a free event at Loyola Park Fieldhouse. Loads of giveaways, music and great info. They are an awesome organization, go out and support! Couple of Archies faves doing shows Saturday night, Twin Coast at Shubas and Growing Boys at Underground Lounge. Open House Chicago all over the city, and this year there’s a photo contest! So much to do, how did we ever run a cafe? Enjoy, and maybe see you there!😻

So much going on! Now that we’re not hosting you at Archie’s we’re getting out and enjoying some of what this fine city has to offer! Here’s our weekend pics.
See you there! 👍

Power of the people! Thank you all for stepping up, writing letters, signing the petition, and vocalizing your disapproval of the way Loyola was initially handling the purchase of the building that houses Archie’s, our business neighbors, the building tenants, and campus development. Your voices were heard! Holding their feet to the fire did result in Loyola addressing the situation. They agreed to give Archies some compensation for the buildout we did to the space. This campaign also prompted them to assist the tenants in the building in finding new accommodations. Because of this, Loyola is now working to engage the community in dialogue over their development plans. Not that any of this is perfect, but it is a step in the right direction. None of this would have happened without your voices. Be proud of yourselves and continue to speak out for injustices and being a positive force for yourself, your neighbors, your community and beyond! Know that there is power in numbers and participation!
Special shoutout to our neighbors for spotlighting this situation and their inspiring fight for justice for all in this issue.
And to and for their support.
You are all awesome, thank you so much! 👑🎖️✊

Well, that’s a wrap. Locked the door for the last time and turned over the keys. Farewell my sweet. Over the years, this space held a lot of mine and my family’s life’s work, education, endeavors, joy and celebrations. Much of that has been shared with you. We’ve been honored to hold that space, open the doors and welcome you all!
Thank you so much for being part of it!
Let’s remember it as it is in that last slide, full of friends, food, art and music!
We sure had fun! Now, onto our next adventure, see you there! 🥰

Archie’s yard sale!
Friday 3-8
Saturday 10-3
Kitchenwares, equipment, decorations, cookbooks, there’s even some folks selling clothes! We’ll have it all, come on thru!

That’s right, get a piece of Archie’s, this weekend!
See you there!🫶

Griffen Krueger, Editor-In-Chief of the Loyola Phoenix penned this in depth piece on Archie’s! Give it a read. Thanks to Griffen and the Loyola Phoenix staff for their coverage, support and patronage over these years, we will miss you!

https://loyolaphoenix.com/2024/09/archies-cafe-closes-with-archiepocalypse/

Tip of the hat to our time here on Loyola Ave. The excitement from the last few epic weeks is settling. Though we have ideas for future events heating up, reality is sinking in. We now find ourselves NOT getting ready for another weekend full of music and friends. Instead, we are engaging in the dispersing of the ingredients that made up Archie’s. They seem like ordinary objects, pots and pans, containers and chairs. Yet when we put them all together, and opened the doors, some sort of wizardry happened. These ordinary objects become part of an extraordinary experience. Was it the location? The guests? The staff? The food? The drink? The music? The art? After conversing with a lot of you recently, It seems unanimous, Archie’s was a moment in time that can never be repeated or recreated, and often felt magical. How grateful I am to all you folks who helped bring the magic! To all our guests and friends that came thru and ate and drank and laughed and met friends and saw shows! To consistently terrific staff. To all the musicians and artists who graced us with their talents. To Ravenswood Electric for the generous and ideal buildout (this was an empty storefront when we started.) To Soloman *touttaluck90 our muralist and pal. To the McCarthy and Milano families for their generosity. To the neighbors that enjoyed (and sometimes tolerated) all our music. And to my family and friends, for listening and supporting and listening some more, thank you. Making this little cafe chug along, especially with a pandemic in the middle, was harder than I could’ve ever imagined. The response in these final weeks has made it all worth it. Hearing your stories and what it’s meant to you, seeing the connections and the community that have come from it are what it’s all about. Archie’s will live on in these memories and friendships. Thank you for choosing us as your neighborhood joint, your workplace, your home away from home. It was an honor and, hard work aside, pretty much fun! We won’t have our clubhouse anymore, but plans for next events are brewing. Stay tuned! Keep supporting independent, locally owned small businesses. Many thanks and much love always. ❤️

Walk through this door for the last time today starting at 3 😭
Have a full day in store.
3pm-Afflatus Magazine Flea Market
Reproductive Justice-giving away freebies
7pm-Last 2 live bands
Thro
Daundry

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

The last 2 days are here!
Be part of the legend and get in here tonight or tomorrow!
8/30 Open at 6 Pizza, Helen Huff plays at 9pm
8/31 Open at 3
Afflatus Magazine Flea Market
Reproductive Justice handing out freebies
7pm. Last Concert 🖤
Thro
Daundry
The End 💔

Be a part of history and join us for the final two days!
8/30- Open at 5pm Friday for Pizza & communing
9pm-The talented Helen Huff will give her final
Archies performance!
8/31- Last Day 🖤
We open at 3 and host 2 Loyola organizations.
Reproductive Justice will be handing out freebies
Afflatus Magazine is hosting a market with
clothing and jewelry!
7pm-Last night of live music at Archies 😭
Thro
Daundry!
💥And we party like it’s 1999! 💥

Absolutely Epic Archiepocalypse!
The weekend to celebrate Archies was jam packed with friends, great memories, laughs, tears and so much fantastic music! The essence of what makes Archies so special was exalted and did we have fun! Hats off to the terrific team in these pics that made the weekend seamless and spectacular! You guys are stellar!
Thanks to all the bands and our terrific community for the love and being so awesome! We have a ton of photos to sift through and share. First, getting ready for our final final weekend. The clock is ticking, doors lock Saturday night 🙀
Will be open 2 more nights.
Join us Friday and Saturday this week. 5pm
Speechless 🖤

Archiepocalypse finale Sunday!
Fantastic lineup all day!
Come fill up your Archie’s tank for the end is nigh 🖤

Thanks to everyone for such a stunning turnout on the first night of Archiepocalypse! Honestly breathtaking!
Great to see so many old friends and new faces getting a taste of the Archie’s experience!
Two days to go! Lots of bands, food, fun and memories to be made!
Starts at noon Saturday and Sunday!
😻🙏

This is it!
We’ve had so many great jazz nights
sad that this is the last one.
Come celebrate the good memories here
by making more!
Going to be a great weekend!
Don’t forget we have free parking
In the lot just west of us.
See you there!
❤️

💥ARCHIEPOCALYPSE💥

It’s true, Archie’s is closing and August is the end.
It’s hard to even type that let alone believe it!
Before it all comes tumbling down, join us in celebrating the great memories we’ve raised.
All next week we’re billed to thrill!

8/21-Dante Milano & Jeremy Joel Warren 7pm
8/22–Sinners Friend 7pm
8/23-Jazz All Stars!
5pm Oscar Evely Trio
7pm Connor Sullivan Quartet
8:30 EA TET & Kabir Dawali
10-DJ Sabian spins
8/24-ALL DAY BASH!
11 Bands, on the hour & DJ Ommen
8/25-FiINAL FLOURISH
7 bands, on the hour, a puppet show and
Furious Styles preparing us for takeoff!

Food,,vending, fun, games, friends, stories, memories, most likely tears.
Going to be a bittersweet blast, join us!
Archiepocalypse artwork by *touttaluck90
🖤❤️🤍

Muralist working on the Sistine Chapel!
Great staff, good food, friends, a reception for artist Barb Cjurec, and a summer film screening by filmmaker Danielle Beverly. All part of the fabric of this beautiful tapestry 🙏

Big night tonight!
5:00- Mather High School Band
7:00-The last open jazz jam- Oscar Everly Hosts
10:00-After jazz DJ set by .ce

The patio cometh! Friends gather! Food, music, fun, rinse and repeat! Last pic is from the original open jazz jam hosted by . Look for this lineup again next Friday night as part of our farewell celebration!

Still time for some Archie’s fun!
8/15 7pm Eddy Green & Dave Mendez
9pm. The O’My’s. Acoustic performance
8/16 5pm Mather High School Band
7pm The Last Open Jazz Jam
Host:Oscar Evely
10pm DJ Chef Juice

Get it while you can!
Next week’s farewell celebration all weekend long!
🫶

Ohhh the memories!
From the get go these guys been putting in the work!
Then there’s the genius behind our logo, Jean and Kevin Riordan!
Antonionio very proud of his trussing!
Staff, The Milano jazz residency, friends and patrons, thank you!
Celebrate these great times and let’s turn it up and pack as many more as we can in here for the next few weeks!
This week:
8/14- Okay Kiddos 7pm
8/15-Eddy Green & Dave Mendez 7pm
The O’My’s 9pm
8/16-Mather High School Rock Band 5pm
Open Jazz Jam-Oscar Evely Host 7pm
Chef Juice DJ set 10pm

From the first signs, a little glimpse through the years
2017-2023

Join us tonight to make more memories!
2nd to last open jazz jam!
Hosted by sullivan
Beautiful night for the patio!
🌟🫶

So many great pics! Sharing, one per day, per year. Roughly this day in Archie’s history.
Still time to make memories with us here on Loyola ave here till end of the month!
Open 5pm
Free live music this week⬇️
Wednesday-The Paper Cups
Thursday-Music Showcase hosted by
Friday-The Open Jazz Jam! Connor Sullivan hosts

🥰

August 31 will be here before we know it! 💔
Open Wednesday-Friday this week. We open at 5

Wednesday-Friends and Locals, The Paper Cups play at 7pm
Thursday-Musical Showcase hosted by 8pm
Friday-Open Jazz Jam hosted by
7pm

So much fun to squeeze in here before we go, join us! 🍋

We start the countdown this week.
Last month on the horizon.
Doesn’t seem real.
Join us while you can 😿
Wednesday- Music at 7
Denim Daisy
Megan Hozic
Sara Mercurio
Thursday- Music at 7:30
Lou Marini Trio!
Friday- Music at 7
Tommy Carrol hosts the Open Jazz jam!