The Brehon Pub sits inconspicuously at the northeast corner of Wells and Superior. From the outside, its bold green signage, four-leaf clover decorations, and Gaelic logo make it hard to pin down as anything other than a traditional Irish pub. But from the inside its completely nontraditional roots are impossible to disguise. The Brehon has a history deeply tied to the corruption of Chicago: the establishment was formerly known as the Mirage Tavern.
Dailing makes it clear that he doesn’t want to spend much time bitching about Trump; after all, it’s a Chicago corruption tour, not a Trump roast. Throughout the tour, his focus remains on the city, and it goes deeper than many of his attendees often expect.
It was during this period that Dailing first toyed with the idea of combining his two passions. “I returned to doing boat tours with Shoreline, and I realized how much I missed it,” said Dailing. “I liked doing tours and I knew all of this political stuff from being a reporter and I wanted to figure out a way to combine them. From there I came up with the idea.”
