Kingston Mines is Chicago’s largest and oldest blues club, a Lincoln Park institution where live blues plays on two stages until the early hours almost every night. Loud, sweaty and thoroughly authentic, it draws both local legends and touring musicians, with a barbecue kitchen to keep the energy up. For visitors wanting to experience the electric Chicago blues in its natural habitat, this buzzing, no-frills club is the real thing and a rite of passage on any night out in the city.