
Women's Sports Bar Coming to Wrigleyville
Clip: 5/5/2026 | 3m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
At Level Sporting Club, women's sports are the main event.
The space will soon become a hub dedicated entirely to women’s sports — something owner Clarissa Flores said is long overdue.
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Women's Sports Bar Coming to Wrigleyville
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The space will soon become a hub dedicated entirely to women’s sports — something owner Clarissa Flores said is long overdue.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> WNBA season tips off this Friday and soon they'll be a new place in Chicago to watch those games and other women's sports.
We spoke with the owner of a new bar opening in Wrigleyville and got a sneak peek at her game plan.
>> Hi, my name is close to Florida's welcome to Level Sporting Club.
It's under construction now.
But soon the site Wrigleyville will be all about women's sports all the time.
The norm is now walking into a sports bar and it's a man's game.
And you have to ask for the women's game.
But at this bar, women's sport is taking Centre court.
I was going through a lot of different names, but Fermi level stood out the most because I'm here to level the playing field for women.
Sports steps away from Wrigley Field.
Notice is tapping into a fanbase, she says, is already here.
Bradley Beal is the entertainment District of Chicago.
And I wanted to take my seat where we belong.
I didn't want to be in the outskirts.
People don't realize this, but that majority of the fans that go to Wrigley are women.
Florida is is an athlete herself.
She played division one basketball at Northwestern University.
I'll say it.
blue in the face of my whole life and my whole career is indebted to the sport of basketball.
And you know what we're experiencing right now.
Not just hear what which I'm trying to contribute to, but >> we're experiencing a cultural shift and that cultural shift is towards women's sports.
>> So tell me a little bit about the vision of this first level.
the first level up here is going to be where all the upbeat sports bar music Food, TV's, you know, it's it's a whole should being up and down stairs, a completely different game plan.
So this is going to be my lower-level key club.
I'm gonna have a piano player down here.
Singalong piano by where the panel players playing among them.
Beyonce.
It'll be a high energy by boat.
On a piano, it'll be.
Your lounge, your candle, that darker type of IED.
So if you're trying do like a date night and come down here, if you want all the fun and excitement, you go upstairs She's stepping into one of the fastest growing audience is in sports, backed by a strong roster of women.
Investors.
My team that I that was intentional.
Jennifer King, who coached the Chicago Bears was running back coach and the Washington commanders Ashley Bracy was the head coach of USC women's basketball, Evan MIT basketball player at the University of Chicago soccer player.
My Culinary partners, a two-time big arm on chef who played soccer for the University of Texas.
What I'm doing now is for the community's the LGBT community, the women sports community.
That's a culture that I'm trying to build up.
Now, she says basketball has opened doors for her and now she wants to give that same opportunity to the next generation.
>> Hopefully in doing this, you know, young girls that are gonna pay women's sports can sustain a business or hey, I can make a career out of women's sports to be able to get back to easing.
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