Bar Number 75: Carrigan’s Pub, Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Here we are at Carrigan’s Pub in East Peoria. Check it out, we got a mention on the sign! Let’s go in and begin our 75th evening in a bar!

Wow, it’s huge in here and the bar is all the way in the back of the room. I see a familiar face over there and we’ll check in with him soon after we settle in here.

After I sat down, these two lovely ladies came over to say hi and welcomed us to the bar. They are from left: Annetta Carrigan who is the owner of Carrigan’s and Rene who’s the friendly bartender for the evening!

Wonderful to meet both of them!

Seconds after I snapped that photo, Rene delivered me an ice-cold bottle of Budweiser, we’re off and running now!

Now it’s time to reveal the mystery man at the corner of the bar, it’s my friend and weekly guest star, Jim/Vern Damico! Jim actually drove us here but I forgot to take a photo of him behind the wheel, but at least we got a shot of him at the bar. Always a pleasure to have him along for the evening!

Here’s the back of the bar and Rene took a shot of the taps available behind the bar.

Here’s a shot from the other side of the bar and do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

As you can see, there’s a nice crowd here tonight and there’s lots of gaming machines in here lining the side wall if you’re feeling lucky. Well, do ya…oh wait, we did that already…never mind.

There’s two signs listing all the specials and things happening in here at Carrigan’s Pub.

They have two pool tables in here and a Budweiser racing car hangs over one of them. Vroom and vroom!

We picked the right night to stop by because Wednesday nights are Bingo-Oke nights in here. They have a musical bingo game in here followed by karaoke.

It’s a lot of fun and your host and DJ for the evening is B.G. Myers and he did a fantastic job! There’s the prize table over to the side.

They have a nice beer garden/lounge area outside and there’s another bar back here as well!

This was a fun evening at Carrigan’s Pub and they even gave Jim/Vern and I free t-shirts! That was so nice! Thanks to Carrigan’s for the wonderful hospitality and for the t-shirts!

And thanks to Jim/Vern for driving and for suggesting we stop at Carrigan’s Pub for this 75th evening in East Peoria. It was a blast!

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