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“Gonna be another warm fall and one of those cold springs,” said Tony, one of Richard’s two bartenders. “El Nin-yah,” he concluded, and poured another highball for a couple who remarked, “Can you believe you can smoke cigarettes in bars in 2024?” Believe it—Richard’s has shirked Chicago’s indoor smoking ban since 2008 and counting, tied as they are to certain local business operations, if you couldn’t guess from the Goodfellas banner, or the Sinatra music playing…
