Last week, I presented you with the infamous Cub vs. Sox fans YouTube clip. Well, the bar satirically referenced for White Sox fans was Jimbo's - - a watering hole that has been a South Side fixture for more than 22 years. Well, according to the Chicago Tribune, Jimbo's will exist no longer.The owner of Jimbo's lounge had hoped to win the right to stay open until the end of the current baseball season. But a judge sided with the tavern's landlords, who filed suit last year to evict their longtime tenants.I don't know the specifics about why the landlords want Levato out, but it seems pretty tragic that something couldn't be worked out. I mean, at least let the bar stay open until the end of the baseball season, is that too much to ask?
"It's going to be devastating," said owner Joseph "Jimbo" Levato. "I don't know what we're going to do. . . . After almost 23 years, I think we deserve better than that. If we could finish the season out, at least we could go out with dignity and pride."
Levato said he had hoped to at least get his case before a jury. But now he faces the prospect of disassembling the bar even as his customers come and go during the final week in April.
Landlords certainly have the right to evict tenants as they see fit -- at least in my limited knowledge of real estate I believe they do -- but there's a fine line between booting the stoner that's four months behind on rent or the legendary bar that's been on this earth as long as I have.
Previously at FanHouse:
Cub Fans Are Dead Sexy, White Sox Fans Not So Much
