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Chicago Fire Offers T-Shirts From Well-Known Bar You Can't Go To

By DNAinfo Staff | November 25, 2015 5:29am
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A scene from "Chicago Fire" in the fictional bar Molly's, which is based on Bucktown's Lottie's Pub.
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BUCKTOWN — Molly's bar is offering a deal on T-shirts: 20 percent off. Internet orders only because, well, Molly's doesn't really exist.

The fictional bar plays a role in Dick Wolf's Chicago shows on NBC as the watering hole for "Chicago Fire" (it was bought by three of the characters) and has shown up in "Chicago P.D." In the early years of filming of "Chicago Fire," the TV production crew used Lottie's Pub in Bucktown at 1925 W. Cortland St. (Check out the history of the place in this 2014 DNAinfo story on the bar's 80th anniversary.)

In 2013, the show rebuilt Lottie's/Molly's inside the Cinespace Chicago studio in North Lawndale at 2621 W. 15th Place. With two shows using the place "it got to be a bit much," Lottie's co-owner Mark Domitrovich told Luis Gomez of the Tribune. The show's set designers kept Lottie's twinkling Christmas lights. 

Still fans of the shows continue to show up at Lottie's in Bucktown.

“Every day we get people coming in, wanting to see what Molly’s looks like, take some pictures,” Lottie's general manager Eddie Treacy told Lori Rackl of tvtrippin.com in May. “It’s been good for business.”

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