Okay, so there`s no wandering on foot from nightspot to pub to saloon the way there is on Division Street in Chicago. So when singles in the suburbs talk nightlife, they mean Schaumburg and area suburbs.
And while that may not exactly be Division Street, there is a hub of suburban nightlife centered along Golf Road in Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows and Schaumburg and spilling out from there. That`s where the hot singles-oriented nightspots are, including The Snuggery, Thirty-Four`s, Rupert`s, Studebaker`s and The Big Kahuna. And that`s not even mentioning the nearby Funny Bone Comedy Club and Second City Northwest.
”There`s nothing that is quite like the downtown spots, but the nightlife is starting to grow in the areas where there are the most singles and that`s it,” says Ed Grossman, publisher of Singles Choice monthly magazine in Buffalo Grove.
The Snuggery in Schaumburg, for example, brings in crowds of up to 500 weekdays and 700 on weekend evenings, according to manager Jim Rosato. Most, he adds, are singles.
”We`ve got customers driving here to Schaumburg from all over the suburbs and far north into Wisconsin,” says Rosato. ”Seven nights a week, it`s the same thing.”
The story is much the same at surrounding nightspots.
”In the past 20 years, the northwest suburban area has developed its own identity as a great place for entertainment,” said Amy Egolf-Adams, director of public relations for The Greater Woodfield Convention and Visitors Bureau in Schaumburg. ”There are many dining and entertainment opportunities here that encourage not only suburbanites but Chicagoans as well to enjoy the burbs. ”Restaurants like Le Titi de Paris (in Arlington Heights) and Rupert`s (in Rolling Meadows) and attractions like Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament (in Schaumburg) and Arlington International and nightspots like Studebaker`s (in Schaumburg) and the Cadillac Ranch (in Bartlett) have put us on the map,” said Egolf-Adams.
