Best Hotels with a Bar in North Side

A Drink Without Leaving the Building

Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago North Shore Deerfield rates 8.4 and folds its bar into an all-suite property with free breakfast, an indoor pool, hot tub and full restaurant, one minute's walk from Cadwell's Grille. The all-suite layout matters for anyone drinking at the bar and then wanting somewhere other than a standard hotel room to settle into afterward, since a suite gives a separate living space the standard rooms elsewhere on this corridor don't. Twenty taxi-minutes from O'Hare keeps it within reach of an airport connection without sacrificing the fuller amenity list.

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Libertyville - Mundelein pairs its bar directly with a pan-Asian restaurant, an 8.4-rated stay with an indoor pool and a free weekday area shuttle that reaches Mundelein Park & Recreation District in ten taxi-minutes. Having the bar and restaurant under one operation rather than two separate concepts means a shorter wait between ordering a drink and actual dinner, useful after a thirty-three-minute taxi ride in from O'Hare when the last thing anyone wants is a second reservation to sort out on top of a long travel day.

The Glen Club breaks from the standard hotel-bar formula entirely: an 8.2-rated stay built around an eighteen-hole golf course, where the bar sits inside the clubhouse alongside a full restaurant rather than a conventional lobby lounge. A nine-minute walk from Kohl Children's Museum and free breakfast, Wi-Fi and parking round out a property built more for a golf trip than an airport layover. Anyone booking here for the bar specifically should know it comes bundled with a golf-resort atmosphere rather than a standalone city lounge, worth weighing carefully before arrival if a nightlife scene was the actual goal.

Hyatt Regency Deerfield rounds out the top tier at an 8.2 rating, its bar attached to a casual American bistro rather than a formal restaurant, seven minutes' walk from Lake Cook Rd & Wilmot Rd. The exercise room and event space on site suggest a hotel built as much for conferences as overnight stays, which shows in the bar's function: a place to close out a meeting day rather than a nightlife destination. Nineteen taxi-minutes from O'Hare keeps it reasonably close to the airport despite the business-hotel focus that shapes most of what happens at the bar itself.

Bars in North Side cluster around the corridor's business hotels rather than any single nightlife strip, since this is suburban Chicago built for meetings and airport layovers rather than an evening crawl between venues. Deerfield alone carries three of the thirteen bar-equipped hotels on this list, likely reflecting the office parks and Hyatt Regency Deerfield anchoring that town's hospitality scene. The Glen Club stands apart from the rest by attaching its bar to a golf clubhouse instead of a hotel lobby, a genuinely different kind of evening than the Marriott and Hilton lounges elsewhere on this list. None of these are destination bars worth a special trip; all of them are convenient enough to end a long day without leaving the building.