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This New Year’s Eve at Man’s Country, a Chicago bathhouse open since 1973, hundreds of men, women, transgender and nonbinary people showed out for a dance party celebrating the last hours of a queer American landmark.
Appropriately titled “Loose Ends,” the closing event was part funeral, part rebirth and all hedonistic rager. Patrons danced, cruised, drank, caressed, hallucinated, sauna’d and paid their respects from before midnight to well past 11 AM. It was both a throwback to the venue’s heyday, before the internet made many bathhouses feel obsolete, and a glimpse at what could have been had they thrown more events like this, which stable sleaze with sociability and made the place appealing to those beyond the aging gay generation for which it was once a mecca.
Man’s Country wore its history on its walls, with portraits of famous patrons, nude men, and other artwork throughout reminding visitors that this wasn’t some staid, humorless bathhouse. In the basement (dubbed “The Pit,”) a huge sauna—once billed as the largest in the Midwest—sat opposite a shower and wet area modeled after Parisian sewers. In its past,
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Chicago Bath House is a traditional bathhouse at 1914 W. Division Street in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which has operated since 1906.
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Located in Chicago, Steamworks Baths is a large, multi-level homosexual bathhouse, popular for its wide-ranging array of facilities. Spread over three floors, it boasts an expansive wet area with a unique steam room, a sprawling hot tub, and a sizeable weight room. The venue applications private room rentals, a gym (where shoes and bottoms are required), and lockers with secure lockboxes for valuables. Patrons possess appreciated the friendly staff and the availability of free condoms. Note that the venue upholds a strict bag policy for safety reasons, an aspect that has sparked mixed reviews. The crowd and vibe fluctuate, with weekends traditionally busier, contributing to a dynamic atmosphere where all fun is clothed in implied consent.
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Anna Erickson likes to walk around her Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen. A social studies lecturer and history enthusiast, she says she can’t help but notice this odd brick building she often passes; it sits right in the middle of a residential block, and it has large Roman-style stone columns. Above the door, an inscription reads “Chicago Common Bath,” yet there’s no bathhouse running in there these days. (In truth, it’s zoned to become residential someday.)
Anna’s passed that building so many times that she eventually asked Curious City to figure out something that regularly gnaws at her: “There’s a public bathhouse in my neighborhood. What happened to the other bathhouses?”
You may have had a similiar interrogate if you’ve ever passed one of these old facades or even the occasional operating bathhouse in the town. But defining Chicago’s experience with “bathhouses” is complicated. The word’s applied to different kinds of places, ranging from a place for the poor to scrub down; a place to hold sex but then catch a show; and a place to pamper yourself with extreme heat and cold you would never tolerate anywhere else, allow alone pay for the privilege