We don't know what kind of bar it was. It probably wasn't a pub. In North America, a bar usually means like a club with heavy drinking and some food. I don't think most people go to the "bar" here for food. A pub yes, but a bar...its usually food you eat when you are drunk and starving lol
I've looked the place up; it has a really rough reputation. It's not even well-known as a restaurant; its' open until 4 am and reputedly full of shady characters, fights breaking out all the time, seriously heavy drinking. It's a combination night club/corner bar- I know full well what those places are like!
Spend too much time myself in the working-class 'club on the corner' places- in Illinois as well where this place is- and I've seen people get glassed, beaten bloody, dragged out unconscious drunk, smashing into cars driving out of the parking lot, and a few months ago there was a shooting at my old haunt.