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Is Pro's Sports Bar Still Open? Bar Rescue Update (Country Club Hills, IL)

Bar Rescue, Season 4 Country Club Hills, Illinois

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Pro's Sports Bar is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 7, 2026.

What the source shows: The business's official website lists the current address (18601 South Cicero Avenue), current operating hours (closed Monday; 4pm-2am Tue-Fri; noon-2am Sat-Sun), and a phone order line, confirming active operation under the name BR Bar/BR Steak. How we decide a status →

What happened after Bar Rescue?

Pro's Sports Bar & Grill operated in Country Club Hills, Illinois, at 18601 South Cicero Avenue. On the episode "Too Many Managers, Not Enough Man" (aired 2015-08-16), the bar was shown struggling under an unclear management structure, with too many people involved in day-to-day decisions and not enough consistent leadership, according to the show's framing of the rescue. As is typical for the series' production schedule, filming took place several months before the episode aired in August 2015. As part of the makeover, host Jon Taffer redesigned the space around a steakhouse-and-bar concept and renamed the business BR Steak, emphasizing food quality alongside a later-night lounge atmosphere meant to draw both a dinner crowd and a nightlife crowd within the same space.

The new concept and name were kept after the cameras left. The business has continued operating at the same Cicero Avenue address under the BR Steak name, also using the shorter name "BR Bar" across some of its marketing and social media. The operation's official website, branded "BR BAR," lists the address as 18601 South Cicero Avenue, Country Club Hills, current operating hours (closed Mondays; 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon to 2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday), a phone order line for takeout, and describes the venue as combining a steak-and-seafood restaurant with a nightlife component after 9 p.m., along with event and party bookings.

The website's continued listing of current hours, an active phone line, and ongoing promotional content for the venue is consistent with the business remaining open under the BR Steak/BR Bar name more than a decade after its Bar Rescue appearance, with no independent report of a subsequent closure or ownership change identified for this update. A listing found on OpenTable during research still used the pre-rescue name, Pro's Sport Bar & Grill, which may reflect a stale directory entry rather than any recent reversion to that name.

The episode Bar Rescue, Season 4

Aired
Title: Too Many Managers, Not Enough Man · What was featured: Sports bar with management conflict rebranded as steakhouse BR Steak
How Bar Rescue restaurants have fared: 52% closed →

Also in Season 4 Bar Rescue

Season 4: 13 of 51 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. brbar.org https://www.brbar.org/
  2. OpenTable https://www.opentable.com/r/pros-sport-bar-and-grill-country-club-hills
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