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Flo & Santos
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IN GENERAL
Located in Chicago's South Loop Neighborhood, Flo & Santos is a warm 67 seat exposed brick and red-boothed pub and eatery. Featuring "Tavern Style" Pizza and Polish classics such as pierogies, kielbasa, potato panacakes along with tasty appetizers like pork wings. We're open every day for business at 11:30 a.m. Family friendly and a bit more "social" after 8pm-ish. There is no bad seat in the house when it comes to watching all of your favorite sporting events.. Sit back and enjoy events on eight flat screens and a huge 90-inch HD projection screen.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD
The South Loop has an extensive history.. Al Capone made his headquarters in the South Loop from the mid-1920s through his conviction on tax evasion charges in 1931, first at the Metropole Hotel at 2300 S. Michigan Avenue, and then at the Lexington Hotel at 2135 S. Michigan. A block down Wabash Avenue was the old home of The Chicago Coliseum. The Coliseum on South Wabash provided a convenient site for all kinds of large civic affairs. Throughout the country it was famous because both political parties had chosen it many times for national conventions.   But Chicagoans knew it best at this time as the site of the notorious annual First Ward balls staged by the amiable and corrupt "bosses" of the central city - "Hinky Dink Kenna and John "The Bath" Coughlin - to raise money for the democratic organization.  On these joyous occasions, the city's political swells mixed with hoi polloi at the levee, and thousands would frolic far into the night.   In 1908 one reporter counted two bands, two hundred waiters, one hundred policemen, 35,000 quarts of beer and 10,000 quarts of champagne.  All of this was easily consumed before the hosts "sent for reinforcements."  "It's a lollapalooza," said Hinky Dink with measured understatement.  "All the business houses are here, all the big people.  Chicago ain't no sissy town."   Not many other places could have handled the crowds so easily, and perhaps no other townspeople could handle the refreshments so comfortably..

GETTING HERE
We are located up the street from the Shedd Aquarium, The Field Museum, Soldier Field and next to the Roosevelt Red/Orange and Green Line "EL" stops. Stop by before and after Sox games. Only a few minute walk to the EL and 15 minute ride to US Cellular Field.