Reader’s Choice Smart Bar

Since having its sound system overhauled and interior redesigned in recent years, Smart Bar has become the much-needed bridge between the city’s smaller, stylier boutique clubs like Sonotheque and thumping hangars full of bottle-service dudes like Sound-Bar. While it’s one of Chicago’s go-to spots for bleeding-edge tastemakers, its regular rotation of house and drum-and-bass DJs shows its deep roots in dance music history. DJs spin after 10 PM, 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-4140, smartbarchicago.com. —Miles Raymer

Readers’ Choice Smart Bar

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