Friday night at Tack Room, a new bar within restored 125-year-old Pilsen landmark Thalia Hall, is something to talk about — from the crowd laden with beards and tattoos, with more and more people ...

Dozens of sweaty, thirsty people form a line stretching along the white building. It’s a warm late afternoon in early July. People are dressed in their Western finest with blue jeans and cowboy hats.