Women's sports bar coming soon to Wrigleyville: 'This is a statement'

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is a new women's sports bar coming to Wrigleyville.

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Level Sporting Club's biggest investment was stocking up on TVs, streaming services and channels to individually air women's sports games, giving them the priority they say they deserve.

"All the walls are going to be covered with TVs," Level Sporting Club founder Clarissa Flores said.

It's designed by women and created for impact.

"Women's sports is going to be center stage; I have goose bumps right now," Flores said.

The bar will be located on North Clark Street in Wrigleyville, and former Whitney Young and Northwestern women's basketball player Flores says opening the bar means building up the much-lacking infrastructure.

"We played in front of 7,000 people for my high school city championship game. So the momentum has been there," Flores said.

In the WNBA, there is a $3 billion media rights deal: six times the amount of its last one, whether it's in airing games or memorabilia from female athletes.

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"A Swin Cash jersey would be super amazing. Swin Cash, that's what we want," Flores said.

These days the momentum for a women's sports bar like this one has been popping up all over the city. Just last year, Babe's Sports Bar opened in Logan Square.

"It's about action. To me, this is a statement," UIC Women's Basketball Coach Ashleen Bracey said. "We're so powerful. We've always just had to figure it out right as women."

Level Sporting Club, which is led by an all-female team including Bracey and the first Black female coach in the NFL, Jennifer King, will be designed with a feminine feel, two levels and two bars, accompanied by a downstairs lounge.

"I can't tell you how many times I've gone to a sports bar out to eat and have to try to find the women's game," King said. "We wanted to fix that. We don't have to ask that anymore."

The goal isn't just to bring in fans, but be a physical reminder of the power of women.

"There's nothing you can't do: the bigger you dream, the bigger the reality," Flores said.

Level Sporting Club will open its doors in late April.