Reading Room

Bar in Chicago · 858 West Lake Street

What OpenStreetMap records

OpenStreetMap records this venue's location and name but none of the facilities we track. If you know it, adding it to OpenStreetMap improves this page and every other map that uses the data.

Contact and location

• 858 West Lake Street

Guides this venue appears in

• Quiet bars for conversation in Chicago Ranked #636

Alternatives nearby

• Grapes & Grains Bar · 8 m away
• Lazy Bird Bar · 58 m away
• Emporium Arcade Bar Bar · 101 m away
• Cruz Blanca Brewery & Taquería Pub · 137 m away
• Lone Wolf Bar · 183 m away
• The Lounge Bar · 188 m away

Frequently asked questions

Know something we don’t?

OpenStreetMap has no tag for how loud a room is, and almost nobody maps power sockets. If you have been to Reading Room, that is exactly the gap you can fill. A person reads every report.

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What would you like to tell us? There are power sockets customers can use There is Wi-Fi for customers Quiet enough to hold a conversation Usually too loud or too crowded to work Laptops are welcome The opening hours shown here are wrong This place has closed This place has moved Something else Anything to add? Optional, unless you picked “something else”. Send

Reports are checked before they appear, and they are shown separately from the OpenStreetMap data — we never merge them into it. We store no name, no email and no IP address; see privacy. If you would rather fix the map itself, edit the venue on OpenStreetMap and it will reach this page on the next import.

This page describes what OpenStreetMap records about this venue as of 30 July 2026. We do not collect reviews or ratings, and nothing here is a paid placement.