Timeout at Shannon’s Maybe it’s the location. Maybe it’s the always-clean décor. Maybe it’s the fact that they don’t take walk-ins (unheard of for barbershops). Or maybe it’s the fact that the Wall Street Journal recognized this Chicago hotbed before the Sun-Times or the Tribune, but there is not a barbershop in the city (in the country for that matter) comparable to the basketball hall-of-fame called Timeout at Shannon’s. Unlike the typical in-the-‘hood, black-fade givers that have become “the black man’s country club” over several generations, Timeout at Shannon’s is what other shops need to become when they grow up. NBA-styled lockers and chairs, old classic games on heavy rotation playing behind the backdrop of the latest beats by Dr. Dre or Kanye West, provide the backdrop for conversations ranging and escalating from Shaq’s big toe to Biggie’s involvement in Tupac’s murder to the priests in the Catholic church. Several companies (including Nike and And1) have expressed interest in buying (or becoming partners in) the shop from owner Shannon Jones. But he refuses to sell. Corporations don’t create legacies, people do. 845 W. Monroe (312)491-1748
