Chicago Journal

By the Numbers

Photo by Dan Dry

Campus public house

Year the pub opened in Ida Noyes’s basement: 1974

Membership price per year: $5 students, $7 staff

Current membership: about 2,500

Nonmember entrance fee: $1

Beers in stock: 100-plus bottles, 21 drafts, 2 draft ciders

Bottled beer purchases needed to win a commemorative T-shirt: 51

Members in 51-bottle club: about 200

Price of most expensive menu item, 40-piece spicy buffalo wings: $18.50

Price of least expensive item, popcorn with butter-flavored oil and salt: $1

Jukebox price for one, three, or 18 songs: $0.50, $1, $5

Days the pub closed last winter for code violations: 44