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Jupiter Outpost
Jupiter Outpost: a Near West Chicago Café/Restaurant Review. This coffeehouse has everything: Free parking and wireless, excellent coffee, superb soup, meritorious sandwiches. A turtle.
Coffee, Free WIFI: Pilsen, Chicago
Looking for strong coffee, free WIFI, decent beardspotting, and reasonable co-working in a Pilsen, Chicago coffeehouse? Check out La Catrina, and don’t overlook their outdoor courtyard, in back. Afterward, grab some bacon candy at Honky Tonk. Free parking!
Dolce Casa Cafe
Dolce Casa Cafe is a coffeehouse not far from the Brown Line, in Ravenswood, Chicago, where you can do some beardspotting, co-working, and/or studying. Thrusting your plug into the nearest electrical outlet might require maze-solving, but at least the hot spot and public restroom won’t present challenges.
Bourgeois Pig
Bourgeois Pig café serves up great coffee and has a huge selection of tea. Their cappuccinos are fantastic and their open Wi-Fi is decent. You won’t find out if Fat Sandwich – a nearby sandwich shop – has decent Wi-Fi, because you’ll need both hands to hold their fat sandwiches.
Coffee, Free WIFI: Archer Heights, Chicago
A Starbucks cafe on 47th and Cicero in Archer Heights has all the coffee, co-working, study space, and internet access that your hard-working ass could hope for. Read this review.
Coffee, Free WIFI: Lincoln Park, Chicago
In its Log On series, Make It Like a Man visits cafes, and reviews them as work and study spaces for students, travelers, and people who work from home. This edition: coffee, free wifi: Lincoln Park, Chicago. Next Door, Panera Cares, and Starbucks.