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Potato Creek Johnny's is your place for fun, food, and entertainment in Glenview, IL

Meet your friends at PCJ's fabulous beer garden, Glenview's finest

NEW MENU AVAILABLE NOW!!!!!!

Stop by at lunch or dinner time and try our new and improved menu! Chef Andre Skula invites everyone to come and try his new creations. New great food with the same great people!!

Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays for Karaoke. Drink specials daily with quality service. Come on in on Friday and try our famous fish fry. Saturday is Band Night with NO cover charge! Check our band page for band schedule.

Join us for SUNDAY BRUNCH

Eggs Benedict or French Toast

w/ choice of meat and potatoes along with many other delicious plates to heal your weekend hangover.

Who was Potato Creek Johnny?

John E. Perrett, later to be known as Potato Creek Johnny, came to the Black Hills of South Dakota from Wales in 1883, at the age of seventeen. In 1929, he was working his claim on Potato Creek when he came across a 7-3/4 oz. gold nugget, one of the largest ever found in the Black Hills.

Potato Creek Johnny stood  a mere 4'3", but dressed in buckskins and sporting a full beard, he was the epitome of the old-time prospector. He soon became one of Deadwood's premier tourist attractions, and spent the rest of his years happily entertaining visitors to Deadwood, and panning for gold.  He died in 1943, and was laid to rest in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery, alongside  Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane.