Summer 1888: Chicago brewery owner Bernard Roesing, a German immigrant, tells his employee Edward Stege, also from Germany, he doesn’t want any dirty Irishmen working in his brewery.

Roesing wants an Irish worker, James Rice, fired. Stege resists, and ends up punching Roesing in the face over it.

Stege’s 2 sons also work for Roesing. So in 1889 Stege opens his own brewery, 15th & Ashland), where he + his sons can all work together.

The brewery has been demolished but these 3 tied houses are still around.

They’re at 23rd & Washtenaw, 24th & Western, and 23rd Place & California. (Tied houses sold one brewer’s beer.)