Belluccio's bar

The **Belluccio's Bar** is an illegal speakeasy, as well as the base of operations of the Belluccios, serving as a major location in the short film, *Hell bent for Whiskey.*

## Hell bent for Whiskey

The bar is located in the middle of Chicago. It is an "L" shaped corner building of moderate size, constructed with bricks. Adjacent to its right is a barbershop, with a red-white barbepole up front, while to its left, there is what appears to be an apartment complex, as seen by the fire exit stairs, with a different stairway right next to the entrance to Belluccio's Bar leading underground, most likely to a basement of the tenants of the apartment building, but possibly another Belluccio-owned enterprise, like a personal still, a store room for the liquor or an additional bar, a recreational room or a meeting space for the mob.

The Belluccio Bar's exterior has purple flap awning around the bar's patio on the middle of the bar, which has the large glass panes dressed in wooden panels for class. There are two potted shrubs on the entrance, signifying the elevated status the establishment has as a rather fancy bar. While the interior isn't shown, it's presumably generic in design with a bar bench, tables, chairs and stools, as well as decoration. The upper floor is known to include Belluccio's private office above, with his own flat and a water closet. The building is known to inhabit at least two people, feared mob boss Belluccio, the owner of the place and his aging mother.

Vinnie and Paulie head straight for Belluccio's Bar to tell their boss first hand of the events that transpired the previous night. Belluccio had already been informed by that day's Chicago Daily Tribune, which detailed the deaths of 5 people due to last night's sabotage by the Costellis in another attack as part of their Booze War. Belluccio openly states that they'll be done for if the Canadian shipments didn't arrive, which Paulie confirmed shortly after, due to a successful police raid. Belluccio then orders them to go to the Costelli Brewery to steal whatever alcohol they have stored away.

The two return a few hours later and tell Belluccio that the whiskey they stole and brought to one of their clients' bar had some side-effects that turned anyone who drank it into an unreasonable ghoul-like monster. This revelation prompts Belluccio to order them to fix the situation immediately and after a short silence following his angry outburst, he further instructs them to blow up the storage from the Costelli's and Luigi's Bar to get rid of the evidence, handing them explosives and a remote detonator.

Belluccio later had to use the bar's toilet, not knowing that the water supply had been contaminated with the tainted brew after the two had failed to destroy Costelli's Brewery. The water was then ignited by none other than Bellucico himself, who, despite his mother's repeated warnings, discarded his still-lit cigars in the toilet as usual. This caused a massive detonation that first destroyed the building's living area and then the bar itself. The same explosion travelled through the entire sewer system destroying a large area of Chicago, as well as annihilating not only the crime families, but likely the rest of the city.