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Ding, ding and ding! The donation bell has rung not once, not twice, but three times today!
Michael Thornton donated $25.00 and I thank him for that generous donation and for thinking of us!
David Geary gave us a very generous donation of $20.00 and I want to thank him for his generous donation!
Kathy Skinner Klister sent in a $10.00 donation and I want to thank her for her generous donation! Kathy is a talented local musician, singer and songwriter and you should check out her YouTube channel and subsribe to it!
Thanks to all three for contributing to the 365 Bar Crawl fund, it really helps to pay for beers, Ubers and the occasional food and snacks we indulge in during our stops! If you’d like to join in and donate, just click right here and click on the “donate” button!
Okay, on to today’s post!
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I really enjoyed going to Jason and Shannon’s Motorcycle Basement Bar the other week and when I met my friend Greg at Castaways the other week I was telling him about that post. I told him I’d like to do other posts on bars in people’s homes and he told me that he had friends in Chillicothe that had a super-cool garage bar.
Well, after a few phone calls and texts we made a time for me to stop by and visit our 24th bar of this 365 tour: Marcus and Hillary’s Home Bar.
Let’s head on over to Chillicothe!
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Bar Number 24: Marcus & Hillary’s Home Bar, Monday, February 2, 2026
Here we are at a garage in Chillicothe, Illinois.
All of a sudden the door rose and I saw a most spectacular sight…
A beautiful bar in a garage!
There’s the owners of this bar and our hosts for the evening, Hillary and Marcus! They started working on this bar in November of 2019 and turned it into a fabulous garage bar!
Let’s take a look around in here!
Here’s the bar from two different angles, it’s a beautiful bar for sure and decorated in such a cool fashion!
There’s the official bar signage on the back wall: “Marcus & Hillary’s Home Bar.”
Check out the clock on the back wall, it’s got my name flashing on it! I’m truly honored!
There’s a side bar over here with a nice inventory of various libations to mix a drink with.
There’s some flashy and fun lit-up signage on the walls in this garage bar.
Check out the cool bobblehead collection in here!
They have some nice sports memorabilia in here including a jersey from local Chillicothe sports legend, Zach McAllister.
Bonnie is the official mascot of the bar! Here she is with Marcus looking cute as twelve buttons!
In addition to maintaining this bar, Marcus also works for River Valley Cooperative and he’s a Certified Arborist and owner and operator of his business, Out Of Your Tree, LLC. If you need some tree work done, give him a call at 773-981-8115.
Thanks so much to Marcus and Hillary for a fun evening in their garage bar, it was great to meet them and hang out in their spectacular bar in Chillicothe!
If you have a home bar and would like it featured on our 365 bar tour, you can email me or call or text me at 309-657-8761!
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The Drinks
I had two 16 ounce Bud Light’s from a six pack I brought over as a gift for the bar.
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