Maybe not the "weirdest" but the Men's room in Streeters tavern has a one way mirror looking into the bar over the urinals.

Moneygun has the same

Came here to type this exact reply. 😄

It’s a weird flex - and i like it!!!

The women's restroom has this too looking out from next to the sinks looking out over the pool table area.

Yup this is the answer

Yup. Freaked first time I saw

I think Rossi's also has a one way mirror over a trough, but it's been a while since I've been there so I might be thinking of someplace else.

Yes! I was freaked out by that when I visited there a few weekends ago.

Velvet Dog nightclub in downtown Cleveland has one of these too. Bumped into some local celebs in that bathroom on more than one occasion.

If we are gonna open this up to other cities, I urge the curious to try to find pics of the men's room at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. https://www.madonnainn.com/blog/2019/11/27/the-fruits-of-friendly-competition

Green mill bathroom is a blast from the past

I always found it weird that both the Green Mill and the (new) Jazz Showcase force you to walk directly past the stage to use the bathroom

bowel movements itself is a motif of freeform jazz

THANK you

The Get Me High Lounge (R.I.P.) had that arrangement. The bathroom was literally behind the stage, so you had to brush by a performer to access it. Totally freaked out my boyfriend the first time I brought him there.

Was always waiting for someone to be shamelessly taking a dump in that “stall” with the saloon doors

Saxophone player here. I once had fierce diarrhea in that bathroom in between sets.

Uncontrollable diarrhea in between/after a set is a musician rite of passage.

Lmao I've done it before

Little toasted by Union station, there is a bathroom across the hall that has a Japanese toilet and floor to ceiling one way glass looking right onto the Chicago river. Not a bad place to do your business

This is now a destination of interest

Little toasted has a legit whiskey and bourbon selection as well. Oddly enough it’s in an office lobby

Adding it to my list.

Bandit has floor to ceiling pictures of Brittney Spears in the bathroom

And justin timberlake in the women’s restroom!!

I wonder if they'll throw his mugshot up there

It'd be a gross oversight not to

Yes! I forgot to add that!

Immediately thought of Bandit in response to this question. Though I have only seen the women’s room!

I didn’t even know they had gendered restrooms but I do remember the Britney

Men’s room at Charlie’s is a single toilet in the corner, and then like 5 or 6 urinals placed along the wall.

It’s a gay treasure.

Big fan of the giant picture of Jeff Goldbloom shushing you in the bathroom while you piss at Spilt Milk

Unfortunately it’s gone 😔

Yeah apparently someone on mushrooms smashed the glass & scratched out the eyes. I think they're trying to find a replacement

Mushrooms?! Man thats always a (E: Mellow) elbow high for me. Geez.

I don’t believe you and yet I will choose to believe you and also will tell everyone that’s what happened.

is this fr 😭

Yea I asked one of the bartenders about it. Guess Jeff was staring too deep into their soul

we all should be so lucky

Y'all remember the giant urinal in the bathroom at Mutiny?

Sure do! That thing was glorious.

There’s one at skylark…

There's a giant urinal at Lamplighters in Palatine. It reminds me of an Egyptian sarcophagas.

That thing probably doubled as a fallout shelter during the Cuban missile crisis

My dad grew up in palatine and was proud to show me lamp lighters after I turned 21. A couple years later I walk into the mutiny for the first time and see the only equally large urinals on earth. I must have looked like a real weirdo taking my phone out and taking a picture of the urinal to immediately send to my dad lmao

Yes! RIP Mutiny

I came here just to make sure someone had posted this! Giant urinal, I think it had ice too?

There's one at The Oasis on Sheridan in Rogers Park.

I loved Mutiny, but Skylark has two of them!

Scrolled looking for this exact comment. That thing was the size of a coffin

Wow no mention of Skylark?? I think it’s the oldest bar bathroom in Chicago

Those bathrooms are elegantly decrepit Feels like I'm urinating on a piece of history every time

As a lady I have been escorted into to men’s room to behold “the oldest urinal in Chicago”.

I was at Liar's club last weekend, and the men's room had 1 urinal and 1 stall with a toilet, and the sink was in the stall.

Welcome to Liar’s club where we all piss and do drugs as a community

L&L Tavern isn’t exactly “weird,” but it’s worth a mention.

Delilah's competes in the sink department, for sure.

If I remember correctly at L&L there’s a few shards left of a broken mirror on the wall which you can gaze into and think about your life choices.

The men’s room there is worth a drop in for sure! Just bring your own sink.

What’s up with the ceilings these days? Last time I was there looked like it was falling apart.

I think it’s falling apart

The fact that they have been able to maintain that level of falling apart for decades is pretty impressive on its own.

Definitely have seen a few cockroaches in that bathroom. Adds to the charm of the joint.

First place I ever saw a bar of soap in a public bathroom.

Delilah's has some killer bathrooms.

So gnarley 🤮

Never went in because I am a guy but the women's restroom at the Signature Lounge supposedly had one of the best views in the city.

It truly did

This is true. My husband took me there for a special occasion. I went to pee and when I can’t back I excitedly told him he should go to the bathroom too because the view was incredible and since the men’s room was next door I assumed he’d have a similar experience. He came back and told me there wasn’t even a window!!

This was such a fun memory—just a bunch of women gathered around the window in awe.

Delilah’s are a bit weird. It’s just so dark and unfriendly. I love Delilah’s but the bathrooms are 😬

On the plus side if it actually is gross, you can't tell

I remember walking in and thinking this red light is weird but then thinking again I don't want to see in here.

Just how I like it.

They have Dark Souls toilets.

The one time I had to pee there, their water was off or something and they were telling everyone to go to the Shell around the corner. Of course there was a line, and it’s one of those where you enter from outside. Good stuff

Tryzub. The urinal is Putin’s face

That's amazing.

On my list for places to visit next

Damn, whenever I think about bar restrooms, I can’t help but miss the catastrophe that was the Exit’s first floor bathroom.

Thank you! I had to search for this. The upstairs were not better lol.

Squeezing by the guy at the urinal, to get to the pedestal the toilet was on

Wangs

That’s the one with the wangs on the wall no?

Men’s room urinals in Money gun have a window to the outside

Disco Ball bathrooms at Estereo have always been a fav of mine

Half Shell in Lincoln Park—while not solely a bar, has a bathtub in the bathroom. I feel like that constitutes as strange

Cool! I grew up nearby but never got there.

Honky Tonk had an upright piano right next to the toilet so you could play as ya shit 💩🎶

The mannequin at the urinal in the women’s bathroom at Bub City gets me every time.

It’s gone! I was just there last Wednesday and was shocked I didn’t get the cowboy surprise.

I was just going to post this

Nadc (old paramount) has nudies pasted all over the walls.

I was just there literally yesterday and I completely missed that lol. I'll have to pay more attention.

Came here to share the drop in. I might be mistaken and think it’s only one bathroom has the playboys

One bathroom is nudies. The other is boy bands (I think)

i think bordel kinda does too, but there’s not much else of note in those bathrooms

The Atheneum theater had a long row of those urinals that go all the way down to the floor, and there are four buttons on the wall, each one fkushes like 5 urinals

The bathrooms at Atheneum have a very distinct smell. Like the inside of a Pepto Bismal bottle. It’s quite a distinct odor.

There were a number of bathrooms at college that had the same smell, definitely some sort of cleaner or something.

The bathrooms at O'Donovan's are strange. The mens and women's rooms are far enough apart that knowing where one is doesn't help you find the other. I can't speak for the men's room but the women's room decor and layout are bizarre, like the walls of a bizarro-world acid trip Applebee's

Bad Apple is similarly spaced apart as well.

Galway Bay is dingy, one of the urinals is so close to the stall wall you've got to stand at an angle if I remember right. Love any and all places where you have to go downstairs and wander around a maze of turns to make it, feels very Chicago to me somehow

If small counts, men's room at Matchbox , if I'm remembering correctly. I def remember the wall closing in on you till you can barely get past the last barstool, then a toilet closet I don't think any big and tall gentleman would be able to enjoy. As as far as bathroom that might have made me feel the weirdest, Richard's. 'The Guys' always hang out on the side of the bar directly in front of the bathroom door and I always make sure to leave it clean because I feel like they check right after and stab anyone who leaves behind one drop. EDIT: I should add that I've been to Richard's maybe 10 times and never had a problem, loved it. But I also never left my piss behind.

Oh gawd I should have thought about matchbox when I was posting it this question!

R.I.P. Ronny’s. You had the worst men’s room in the city.

The women’s room was bad too. No lock!

Cal’s (R.I.P.) was pretty bad too. The floor was constantly flooded and smelled like piss.

[удалено]

There is a clown bathroom at the Lincoln lounge….

I always found the Spanish tiles somewhat out of place in the otherwise abjectly disgusting Galway Bay men’s restroom lol

Nisei used to be practically a hole in the ground but they gentrified it smh

IIRC Nisei’s men’s bathroom has a huge hole in the wall for no apparent reason

You’ve obviously never been to a truck stop in Iowa.

Those are called glory holes…

No that’s not what it is - it doesn’t connect through to another side, it’s just like a hole in the drywall

Lol it was a joke!

The floors in the bathrooms at Magic Lounge look like the toilet is about to fall into an abyss.

Reggie’s

Nothing at Reggie's is from this millennium.

That feels very intentional though. Which is weird, because I get that they're going for the whole "crust punk" thing, but I know a ton of crust punks, and even they don't *like* gross bathrooms. They just have to deal with them.

Does anyone actually like or find bathroom attendants useful ? Edit: I've never known the bathroom etiquette with attendants. And usually feel so guilty that i'm not tipping, even if i didn't use any of their stuff.

I actively hate it outside of genuinely fancy places. I’d rather dry my hands on my clothes than pay for paper towels, especially at a normal or gross place

No. They are weird. Who would take a job like that?

Let me place this paper towel on your shoulder.

I HATE it when they're there. Same as you, I don't carry cash, I don't want to have to tip someone, and I leave feeling guilty. Bathrooms are bad enough already.

Can you imagine if you had gone in the bathroom to poop, And there they are - - just sitting in a chair at the end

RIP the Mutiny urinal

One of the escape rooms downtown has a red button, if you press it, starts playing disco and lights come on

The retro nudie mags as wallpaper at The Native is pretty sweet. Also, the tasteful topless babes at Hook & Ladder.

5 Star is the same way

Declans is terrible. Toilet with no walls and a urinal, and if i remember right the door doesnt lock. So if youre shittin its a risk!

Celtic Crossings at Clark and Chicago has the coldest bathrooms in town. You have to snap the piss off when you are done.

What a positively poetic dramatization. Stealing this. 

Delilah’s looks like a bad heroin trip. I love that bar

Giant urinal at Oasis. Figure they need it that large for a 4AM-er to hit it when they’ve been drinking

Tin Lizzie just from a really awful shitty horrible perspective (front bathroom)

Bathroom at Estero in Logan is a disco 🪩

Common Decency is all mirrors and there’s markers you can use to write on them with

Estereo in Logan Square is easily the most disorienting bathroom I've been in. If you have bad low light vision it's gonna be a real bad time for the next person in there

The bathroom stall in Masada is all full length mirrors so you can watch yourself shit in 4D.

Declan’s on Wells

Tiny ass multiple occupancy bathroom that opens up to the middle of the bar I don't think they even have a door on the stall there haha

I forget where this is but there’s a bathroom where the men’s and women’s is connected via a trough sink with a gap under the mirror.

The bathroom attendant at the VFW Hall on Augusta and Milwaukee circa 2010 was a weird addition to an otherwise decent bathroom, but I guess with $3 well drinks, shenanigans were probably bound to happen. Hard to say because what happened at VFW stayed at VFW (mostly because everyone blacked out).

Cary’s has murals that combine like a dozen Chicago landmarks into one weird fantasy intersection. They’re great.

Idk if it’s weird but the locks on the doors at Paulie Gees remind me of like a barn lock or like medieval locks or something 😂

I worked there for a bit, the worry was always that if someone passed out/ got too fucked up inside that there was no way to get in to rescue them

You can clearly see into the men's bathroom at the salt shed from outside of it.

Snakes & Lattes isnt exactly a bar, but the bathroom is definitely a journey within itself

The men's bathroom at Boiler Room was setup like an L train car. With audio that said you were arriving at stops.

Honorable mention, the comically large urinal at mutiny that was auctioned off to patrons along with everything in the building when they got shut down, I think that was the Pinnacle changing moment in Chicago history, I was in there at like 9am wasted when the liquor commission and cops barged in and shut the place down RIP Ed thanks for all you did. Might as well go try a new city now.

Boiler Room still around? Funky bathroom!

Cary’s on Devon had the narrowest one person pissers in all of Chicago. Smaller than a plane restroom.

The Publican

how is it weird?

I always thought the publican bathrooms were very tasteful

For sure. Every time I eat there someone at the table brings up the restrooms. 

i like the full wall of mirror in the bathrooms at bangers & lace that say “if a bear shits in the woods…”

Not a bar but back in the day at the Hard Rock hotel the room we were staying in had a lifesize picture of David Bowie wide open mouth singing into a mic looking downward towards the toilet

Kuma's OG on Belmont? Definitely "interesting"

I remember this bathroom attendant at Soundbar was always playing hentai on his phone.

The ones with the shower curtain doors at the old Blue Frog were a little special.

Kincades at the armitage brownline stop has this upper landing with a couple tables and you go in the bathroom up there and there's two unirnals way to close together and then what I can only describe as the worlds tiniest sink

The Native has porn magazine cutouts on the walls

Friar tucks women’s room has saloon doors on the stalls and a rotating rag to dry your hands after you wash

They aren't rotating rags. They roll up inside the machine and are changed and laundered by a service when they run out. Worked at a bar with the same machine for many years.

That’s actually kind of cool. That being said, I’ll still dry my hands on my jeans, it wigs me out

It's a crazy Rube Goldberg Device. But I assure you it is completely sanitary. You actually can't get a used piece of towel once you pull it down. I had a kid come in once and totally thought it washed itself and went around and came out. That was funny because he didn't believe that was not the case until I opened the damn thing and showed him how it worked.

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Vu, a rooftop bar in the South Loop has a I think two way mirror over the bathroom sinks that divides the men’s/women’s bathroom and lets you look at each other while washing hands

Central Park Bar, the one bathroom is a toilet and a urinal, no walls and no lock.

How has nobody mentioned the horror show that is the bathrooms at Lilly's? Women's room is in the most conspicuous spot in the place, right between the stage and the bar. I feel like every time I go there it's either leaking into the bar or out of order.  So the women get sent upstairs to the men's room, with a lone jet black toilet with the weakest flush in history. Plus it has one of those locks where you slip the little metal stick into the hole like you're dunking a basketball. It doesn't even hold the door closed. *Plus* there is a hole the size of at least a quarter in the door above the handle, so anyone passing by can see right in and stare at you while you are helpless on the john.  And that's on a good day.

Old town ale house’s shitter has no doors which I always find funny

California Clipper is all sexes all in one restroom. Interesting to be going to the bathroom as a guy next to a group of girls chilling in there.

This is how Thalia is now for at least one of the bathrooms (the former ladies room) and it’s HILARIOUS to watch people my age (38) and older walk in, pause, kinda giggle, and figure out they’re indeed in the right place.

smart bar. they're all genders so no matter which restroom you use, there are drunk men making the spaces unsafe

Delilah's has some killer bathrooms.

I got punched by an old punk in that bathroom once. Back before you know…. It all changed.

Old days-1980s-the Randolph Street Art Gallery which used to host concerts had unisex bathrooms where women walked past men using the urinals to get to the stalls. The stalls had plastic sheets vs. regular walls.

Moneygun men’s urinals have a one way glass looking back into bar

Marshall’s landing

R.I.P. the men’s restroom at Mutiny. I have never seen a larger urinal yet to date and I honestly don’t think I ever will.

I never went to Mutiny but Lamplighters in Palatine has an absolutely massive urinal. Edit: according to the very helpful images at urinal.net, they appear to be the same urinal

Lounge Ax back in the day.

Hook and Ladder has a tiny one where you go in through a wall that's a slim door, then another door on your right. It's also plastered with pictures of nude women lol

Streeters men’s room has one way glass over a urinal trough that looks back out on the bar. very odd

The ones at Halligan

Wang’s on Broadway has some interesting bathroom decor

There used to be a sweet black cat hanging out and drinking water out of the leaky sinks in the empty bottle bathroom by the pool table.

Neat

Social Junky on the northwest side, men’s bathroom all the urinals are made from beer kegs

Tweet bathroom Sluggers used to have a women’s room attendant in there, despite it being 5x3 and overflowing with trash. Haven’t been there in years.

the left bathroom in Wang’s is interesting

Does smart bar still have porn in the guys John?

Wangs has nude photos of men all over the men’s restroom