White Horse Inn
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The White Horse Inn is a bar in Campustown on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Students usually refer to the bar as simply "White Horse" or more informally as "White Ho." The bar closed in November 2007 after more than 30 years of operation because of financial difficulties, but it reopened under new management in fall 2008.
White Horse Inn claims the "World's Greatest Beer Garden," an outside, fenced-in drinking and eating area. The garden spreads to a second floor on top of the bar.
The bar sells 50-cent tacos and $10 gift certificates for $5 on Sundays, cheap hamburgers on Mondays and cheap wings on Thursdays. The bar holds open mic nights on Mondays, and an acoustic music series on Tuesday and Thursday nights. The rock band Shovel Rack played many shows at the bar from 2004-2006. Wednesday nights at the bar are by far the most popular with karaoke night in the main bar and $5 pitchers of rum and Coke.
Single bathrooms are known to become dirty throughout the night.
Frequented by townies and a clientele that can otherwise best be described as "old and creepy", the White Ho is nonetheless a popular stop for Bar Crawls and random drunken visits on the way home at 1:30 a.m. The White Horse, while by no means a respectable bar, is serviceable in this regard. Rather than ending the night with the ever popular "Stayshe Sweep," it has become increasingly acceptable to stop in at the White Ho for a last ditch attempt at finding a companion for the night. Or at the very least, another drink.
The bar's address is 112 East Green Street in Champaign, on the corner of Second Street and Green Street. The bar opens at 11 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at 8:30 a.m.(!) on Sunday. Its phone number is (217) 352-5945.
