Madcats

The story

Madcats is a restaurant, bar & live music venue with the best of local food and music, with a focus on community. Besides bands every Friday and Saturday, we host an open mic every Tuesday, bingo on Wednesdays, karaoke on Thursdays, a blues jam and a jazz jam on two Sundays of the month.

Everything that was here

• 2021–present · still open

  MadcatsRestaurant

  Madcats is a restaurant, bar & live music venue with the best of local food and music, with a focus on community. Besides bands every Friday and Saturday, we host an open mic every Tuesday, bingo on Wednesdays, karaoke…

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• 2012–2019

  Mac's on SladeRestaurant

  Established in 2012. Your search for the perfect music venue ends here. Our restaurant, bar and live music brings together some of the best local bands in the city of Chicago. MAC's on Slade in Palatine, IL has come…

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• 1984–2011

  Slade Street Station (mini-mall)Retail Store

  After the fire department left in 1981, the 1942 fire station became a mini shopping mall called Slade Street Station in 1984. Mac's on Slade took the building in 2012.

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• 1942–1981

  Fire StationGovernment

  The volunteer firefighters raised the money for their own brick firehouse in 1942.

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• 1930–1941

  Community HallGovernment

  The upstairs hall of the 1899 village hall continued as Palatine's public meeting and entertainment room until the wooden building was replaced by the brick fire station in 1942.

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• 1899–1929

  First Village Hall & Fire StationGovernment

  Palatine ran its government from the second floor and its fire engine from the first.

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