Bucktown’s Getting a Corner Bar And Inn This Summer, As Long-Anticipated Project Put in Motion

The former Mickey’s Tavern in 2014 shortly before it closed.

BUCKTOWN — If everything goes as planned, The Leavitt Street Inn & Tavern in the old Mickey’s Tavern will open this summer, marking more than three years since the neighborhood-focused venture was hoping to open.

“It’s taught us a lot. We will be better managers for it. The community has been great and very patient,” said Teddy Harris, whom, along with his wife, Sarah Brick, bought the former dive bar and its building in November 2014, a few months after Mickey’s Tavern closed.

The Harris recruited four other local couples to invest in the inn and tavern, which will be collectively run by the group.

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A postcard in the window of the tavern.

Future home of The Leavitt Street Inn & Tavern.

A public notice in the window; the bar got city approval for a commercial kichen and an inn upstairs.

An old sign advertising Mickey’s “all week” specials.

Bumper stickers on the beer cooler.

Teddy Harris, left, and woodworker J.J. Jesik, who is also an investor in the bar.

An old soda bottle that was behind the bar.

Another old soda bottle.

Workers from Midway Movers prepare to remove the bar. Harris is at right.

Inside the former bar. History!