The present map, November 2026 — and the boundary

November 2026

What stands: The city's documented drinking map, as the licensing-age directories and the press state it in November 2026, is a taverns-and-pubs map, each room with its entry above: the Linebacker Lounge (1962) at the campus edge; CJ's Pub (1984) and Corby's Irish Pub (1988, under its film name from 1992) downtown; Joe's Tavern (1905) reopened on the west side in 2025 after seven dark years; Dorbin's Old Town Tap (2024) in Simeri's room on West Indiana Avenue; Fiddler's Hearth (2002) and the Madison Oyster Bar on North Main; O'Rourke's Public House at Eddy Street Commons; and the newest documented change of tenancy, The Bend Lounge's 2026 move into the old Vegetable Buddies address at 129 North Michigan. The decade's closings stand in their entries with their dates: Club Fever (12 April 2019), the revived Vegetable Buddies (by 2023), the Simeri's name (26 April 2024), and Club 23 and the South Michigan adult bars in their undocumented and documented ends respectively.

Sunday and the state's frame: The map's outer frame is the state's, as it has been since Repeal: Indiana permits run through the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission, and the trade's hours — to 3 a.m. — are the ones this section's listings repeat from the saloon era's successors to the Oyster Bar today. Indiana's repeal of its forty-year ban on happy-hour pricing took effect 1 July 2024, the one change in the legal frame the decade's record documents, and O'Rourke's planned specials under it are the present map's smallest dated fact.

The boundary, printed: Two rooms in the Domer canon stand outside the city and are named here only to be placed: the Midway Tavern, which Notre Dame Magazine lists among the classic watering holes, is Mishawaka's, on that city's own main street, and belongs to Mishawaka's later record; McCormick's, likewise in the magazine's list, is this city's own: the Coney Island bar at 125 North Michigan Street in downtown South Bend, where it stands today. An earlier assembly of this record placed McCormick's across the line in Mishawaka; the current directory record corrects it, and the correction is printed here so the error does not travel. The same magazine records the older migration the other way — the years when Indiana's and Michigan's drinking ages differed and revelers "crossed into Michigan" to Kubiak's, Shula's and Jay's Lounge — Michigan rooms, named at pointer size as the record of those runs. Inside the line, one institution is boundary-printed in its own right: the university's Senior Bar, opened in the Alumni Senior Club's brick house in 1969, moved after that house's demolition in the summer of 1982 into a student-run room at the stadium end of the student center, and renamed Legends of Notre Dame in September 2003 — a famous student drinking institution that stands on campus ground in the Notre Dame CDP, and so belongs to the university's record, pointed to here from the city's.

Sources:

1. The entries above and their sources — the operating rooms and the dated closings as documented to November 2026; current bar and restaurant directories checked November 2026, including McCormick's Coney Island Bar at 125 North Michigan Street, South Bend (the house's own listing and current directories, November 2026).
2. Notre Dame Magazine, "Bar Tour" (2020) — the Midway Tavern (Mishawaka) and McCormick's (South Bend) in the Domer canon; the Michigan drinking-age getaways (Kubiak's, Shula's, Jay's Lounge). Scholastic (Notre Dame), Legends of Notre Dame history — Senior Bar from 1969 in the Alumni Senior Club, the house demolished summer 1982, the student-run Senior Bar from September 1982, Legends from September 2003; campus ground, boundary-printed.