It’s official: Mary Jo McGuire’s is finally opening its doors in Lincoln Park on Friday, October 17. A sister bar to the iconic Butch McGuire’s on Division Street in the Gold Coast, the new Irish saloon is named after the wife of Butch, the late founder of his eponymous 64-year-old pub.

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The couple met at Butch’s, which she took over after her husband’s passing in 2006. Butch McGuire’s has always been a family-owned operation, with Butch’s son Bobby now at the helm, so it’s fitting that Mary Jo, who passed away in 2021, is getting her own digs.

Mary Jo McGuire’s is taking over the former LP’s T.A.P. House and The Loft, which both shut down earlier this summer, at 2251 N. Lincoln Ave. And, not surprisingly, the two-story saloon is fin

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