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The Billy Goat Tavern had relocated from the west side, across from
Chicago Stadium, to the Hubbard Street/Lower Michigan Ave location
inside the REALTOR building in 1964. They could operate a grill in
addition to the bar, hence the famous cheeseburgers, and had a steady
stream of customers. Why? They were between Tribune Tower (both Trib and Chicago Today) and the Sun-Times Building (including the Daily News).
Newspaper writers were hard drinkers. Royko may have written columns
there while not entirely sober and considered Sam Sianis a good friend.
The curse of the billy goat legend was Sam's father when he wasn't
admitted, with goat, to one of the Cubs games in the 1945 World's
Series. Took a few years to break that curse.
Sam was a good businessman, expanded to multiple locations, and played
off fame from Royko and other columns, the weak Saturday Night Live
skit, and other reasons. The newspaper men are gone, just tourists now.
Before his recent gall bladder surgery, Sam was still sweeping up after closing. He never retired.
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