El Trebol Liquors and Bar

03/26/2024

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11/09/2023

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04/27/2023

Jue-bebes!!!!

03/20/2023

Our beloved Samuel Ornelas was honored with this piece about his life and his love for his patrons. He refused to change the bar despite the changes in the neighborhood: trendy restaurants, luxury apartments and other bars.

“The evening that Samuel Ornelas died, music from the old jukebox in his cantina stopped playing and the vintage bar stools stood empty. On Jan. 28, for the first time in nearly 50 years, El Trebol Liquors, the oldest dive bar in Pilsen, closed its doors to its faithful patrons to pay their respects to Sammy, as most people called him.

Sammy was 86, and had spent most of his time at the family business that he helped establish and that he became sole proprietor of in the last decade.

He was resilient, much like the other Mexican immigrants who started to build a life in the area & shaped its Mexican culture.

Story:

Sammy Ornelas' bar, El Trebol, remains a safe haven for the immigrant community it was created to serve.

03/19/2023

Our beloved Samuel Ornelas was honored with this piece in about his life and his love for his patrons at the bar.

“The evening that Samuel Ornelas died, music from the old jukebox in his cantina stopped playing and the vintage bar stools stood empty. On Jan. 28, for the first time in nearly 50 years, El Trebol Liquors, the oldest dive bar in Pilsen, closed its doors to its faithful patrons to pay their respects to Sammy, as most people called him.
Sammy was 86, and had spent most of his time at the family business that he helped establish and that he became sole proprietor of in the last decade.”

Read the full article:

03/17/2023

Chicago Tribune ‐ El Trébol Patriarch Story

Sammy Ornelas' bar, El Trebol, remains a safe haven for the immigrant community it was created to serve.

03/08/2023

Happy international Woman Day!!!

02/01/2023

We remember and honor our patriarch, Samuel Ornelas at the bar he called home for several decades. Trébol will closed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Sammy was a pioneer immigrant entrepreneur in the Pilsen neighborhood. He lived to his 86 years surrounded by love and teaching his children the art of resiliency and love.
He was only 16 when he immigrated from Jalisco, Mexico. In the late 50’s he began working at El Trebol Liquors & Bar with his family,now the oldest cantina in the Pilsen neighborhood- to then become the co-owner and then sole proprietor of the family business that has been a staple of the Mexican immigrant neighborhood in Chicago.

Sammy had great respect and appreciation for the loyal patrons that visited the bar and those who continue to have a beer or two enjoying the traditional Mexican music that he loved.

Join us to celebrate his life: Visitation
Friday, February 03, 2023
3:00PM - 9:00PM
Colonial-Wojciechowski Funeral Homes of Chicago
6250 N Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60646

Lying In State
Saturday, February 04, 2023
9:00AM - 10:00AM
St. Hedwig Church
2226 N. Hoyne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647

Funeral Mass
Saturday, February 04, 2023
10:00AM
St. Hedwig Church
2226 N. Hoyne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647

01/30/2023

Con profunda tristeza informamos a nuestra comunidad de el sentido fallecimiento de nuestro querido padre el Sr. Samuel Ornelas, pionero empresario inmigrante de la comunidad de Pilsen.
Sammy como todos lo conocían vivió sus 86 años rodeados de el amor de su familia y enseñando a sus hijos el arte de la resilencia y el trabajo duro.
El sábado por la tarde nuestro querido Sammy dio su último suspiro rodeado de toda su familia.
El tenía apenas 16 años cuando inmigró desde Jalisco México y a finales de los 50’s empezó a trabajar con su familia en El Trébol Liquors and Bar, hoy por hoy la cantina más antigua de Pilsen, más adelante se convirtió en copropietario de El Trébol para más adelante ser propietario único de el negocio familiar que ha sido una parte importante de la comunidad Mexicana en el vecindario de Pilsen en Chicago.
Sammy siempre sintió un gran respeto y aprecio por sus fieles clientes que visitaban su bar y a quienes actualmente lo visitan para tomar un par de cervezas y disfrutar de la música tradicional Mexicana que a el le gustaba.
Sammy será recordado con inmenso amor por su esposa que le sobrevive, sus hijos y sus amados nietos.
Aunque nuestro corazón está dolido damos gracias a Dios por la vida de nuestro amado Sammy.
Sus memorias vivirán en nuestro corazón y nos acompañarán por siempre.
Todos sean bienvenidos a dar el último adiós a nuestro querido padre.

https://www.colonialfuneral.com/obituaries/Samuel-Ornelas?obId=27162161 #/obituaryInfo

It is with deep sorrow that we inform the community of the loss of Samuel Ornelas, a pioneer immigrant entrepreneur in the Pilsen neighborhood. Sammy lived to his 86 years surrounded by love and teaching his children the art of resiliency and hard work. On Saturday night, Sammy took his last breath surrounded by that same love of his family.
He was only 16 when he immigrated from Jalisco, Mexico. In the late 50’s he began working at El Trebol Liquors & Bar, now the oldest cantina in the Pilsen neighborhood- to then become the co-owner and then sole proprietor of the family business that has been a staple of the Mexican immigrant neighborhood in Chicago.
Sammy had great respect and appreciation for the loyal patrons that visited the bar and those who continue to have a beer or two enjoying the traditional Mexican music that he loved.
He will be remembered with immense love by his wife, his children and grandchildren.
Though we are heartbroken, we thank God for the life that our beloved Sammy had. His memory will live in our hearts and amongst us

11/21/2022

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11/21/2022

11/11/2022

TBT with Sammy

11/02/2022

Zenón and Roberto got their photo taken in 1974 at el trébol liquors!

10/26/2022

Halloween weekend is at El Trebol

10/21/2022

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