Mirage Tavern

Brehon Pub
Customers in 2009
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Restaurant information
Established1977
CityChicago
StateIllinois
Other informationSold and later renamed to Brehon Pub.

The Mirage Tavern was a drinking establishment at 731 N. Wells St. in Chicago purchased by the watchdog group Better Government Association and the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977 to investigate widespread allegations of official corruption and shakedowns visited on small businesses by city officials. The journalists used hidden cameras to help ensure that city inspectors caught accepting payoffs for ignoring safety hazards were all properly documented.[1][2]

The tavern, which has had more than one owner since the Sun-Times investigation, is now known, after a number of improvements, as the Brehon Pub.

  1. ^ Lawler, Philip F. "The Alternative Influence", 1984. p. 38.
  2. ^ MacKenzie, Kerry. "Chicago", 1999. p. 49.