An old garage on the north branch of the Chicago River was transformed, Cinderella-like, into this sexy, retro, 1940s-style nightclub and restaurant. The beautiful, well-appointed crowd shows up here to smoke stogies from the humidor, lap up martinis, and take in the scene (there's also a fine-dining restaurant whose patrons can move on to jazz after dinner without paying the cover charge). Green Dolphin books jazz in all its permutations, from big band to Latin, with shows Tuesday through Saturday.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Chicago 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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