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High-End Restaurant Group Leases Former Southport Lanes Building in Chicago With Colorful Past

Move by Boka Signals Future Plans at Former Schlitz Tied House on City’s North Side

Boka Restaurant Group has leased the former Southport Lanes space in the historic Chicago building at 3325 N. Southport Ave. (CoStar)
Boka Restaurant Group has leased the former Southport Lanes space in the historic Chicago building at 3325 N. Southport Ave. (CoStar)

One of Chicago’s best-known restaurant groups plans to move into a historic, Schlitz-built structure on the city’s North Side that has functioned at various times as a tavern, speakeasy, illegal off-track betting parlor, brothel and bowling alley.

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