Transit Nightclub in Chicago

With a dance floor large enough to fit entire clubs in, Transit Nightclub, 1431 West Lake Street, is one of Chicago's best and biggest dance parties to be found. Friday night, Saturday night, whenever you decide to go really; Transit will have the music pumping and the bottles popping.

Three rooms offer three different types of music and party atmospheres. With all the variety you never have to worry about being disappointed because the DJs know how to keep the crowd moving and the crowd knows how to keep partying. Because of the large size of Transit the crowd in the club is always changing, it is popular with both college students and the more sophisticated clubber. On any given night you will find several parties in the house to celebrate birthdays, bachelorette parties, as well as promotional parties.

The main room of the club has a fifteen hundred square foot dance floor surrounded by two bars, seating, a couple dance poles, and standing area. The first bar is always crowded because it is the first thing guests see when they arrive and groups tend to congregate around it. Because of its small size, it fits under a staircase and is manned by a single bartender, head over to the larger bar that runs along the side wall in the main room. From here you have a better view of the crowd on the dance floor and, for the guys, the girls taking a spin on the popular dance poles. At the back of the room behind the dance floor is a raised seating area that is a great place for groups to hang out and watch the activity. It is also here that you will find Transit's famed dance poles.

Depending on the night and the DJ the music in the main room can go from popular latin music to hip hop to house. Whatever is playing, it sounds great; Transit has one of the best sound systems in the business and especially Chicago. While you dance the video walls will be on the crowd or flashing music videos.

Upstairs overlooking the main room, but in a party of its own is the Mezzanine Room. Usually reserved for private parties, Mezzanine offers dance music of its own with plenty of room for dancing around the bar and seating area. Generally, the music playing upstairs will be old school hip hop or house, but I have heard several other genres of music on different visits. Because of the fact that this room hosts a lot of private parties the crowd can be a little more mature and the drinks are a little more expensive but always stronger.

The Blue Room is in the back of the club and roped off to the general crowd at Transit, usually you need to be VIP at the club or be a member of a party celebrating in the Blue Room. While the Blue Room always starts out fun, the fun factor dwindles as the night wears on and the crowd becomes suffocating. Dancing is near impossible as half of the crowd is pushing their way back and forth to the bar or in and out of the room. It's a shame since the dance music playing back here is always very good. If you do want to party back here but cannot make your way past the bouncer guarding the rope, move to the opposite side of the room and enter by the bathrooms, usually reserved as the Blue Room's exit it also allows the guests back in after a trip to the restroom.

Whatever your reasons for going; dance, drink, or be merry it is possible at Transit.