List of Illinois Breweries - Closed Breweries

Closed Breweries

• America's Brewpub in the Walter Payton Roundhouse, Aurora
• Bluff City Brewery, Alton, IL
• Brass Restaurant and Brewery, South Barrington
• Chicago Brewing Company
• Chief's Brewing Company, Champaign, Illinois (became Joe's Brewery)
• Crooked Waters Brewing, Peoria, IL
• Dick Brothers Brewery, Quincy, Illinois, founded in 1856, closed 1951.
• Flatlander's Restaurant and Brewery, Lincolnshire
• Govenor's Public House, Lake in the Hills
• Griesedieck Western Brewery
• Joe's Brewery, Champaign, Illinois (ceased brewing 1996, bar still open)
• M.T. Barrels Brewery, West Dundee, Illinois
• Meister Brau, also see Miller Lite
• Pabst brewery in Peoria Heights, Illinois
• Prairie Rock Brewing Company, Elgin, Schaumburg
• Reisch Brewery, Springfield, founded in 1849, closed 1966.
• Ruff Brewing Company, Quincy, founded in 1855, closed 1948.
• Sieben Brewery of Chicago, noted as a point of dispute between Dean O'Banion and Al Capone during Prohibition. See North Side Gang
• Stenger Brewery, also known as J and N Stenger Brewery, Naperville, founded in 1848, closed in 1893.
• Star Union Brewery, Hennepin, Brewer: Dave Urnikis.
• Stag beer
• The Tap & Growler
• Taylor Brewing, Lombard, closed 2011, Taylors website says moved to Hoffman Estates as The Assembly Restaurant