Raise Your Pints: Guinness Brewery Coming To Chicago

CHICAGO — Have you ever thought about traveling to Dublin for a pint of beer at the Guinness brewery? If you can't make it to Ireland, a trip to Chicago's Fulton Market District could soon be the next best thing. Developer Fred Latsko is partnering with the Irish beer maker to open a brewery and beer hall, reports Crain's Chicago Business.

The proposed business venture would be located near 375 N. Morgan St. at the long-vacated Pennsylvania Railroad terminal building at the eastern edge of another Latsko property. According to Crain's, Latsko plans to develop a 33-story office building on the vacant western edge of the property near the corners of Morgan and Kinzie streets in a separate deal.

Guinness opened its first brewery in the United States in more than 50 years when the Guinness Open Gate Brewery was founded in 2018 in Baltimore. The Chicago location would be the second in this country, as there are currently just six Guinness breweries in operation around the world. The others are located in Ireland, Malaysia, Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon.

Planned opening dates for either site have not been released publicly.

Guinness has been owned by the London-based company Diageo since 1997 following the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan. Patch has reached out to both Diageo and Latsko Interests, Fred Latsko's company, for this story.

Latsko Interests, located at 908 N. Halsted St. in Chicago, has more than 20 years of experience in developing and managing properties in Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Colorado, California and Florida, according to its website. A majority of the company's clients are located in Chicago's Gold Coast.