I'm not usually one to stand on a stage and sing into a microphone in front of a crowd of people, but best friends and alcohol conspired me to do just the very thing at the Clark Bar on a frigid (but otherwise lovely) Friday night.
The bar has a really nice ambiance. There are a ton of rooms, a kind of living-room type space with couches for relaxed conversation and live music, a somewhat crowded and annoyingly narrow bar area for boozing it up, and a music room with a stage and some peripheral seating for karaoke, music and dancing.
Great prices for beer ($3 Blue Moon!), clean bathrooms, and a great time for my first karaoke experience! If I lived in Champaign/Urbana, I could see making this a frequent stop on my Friday night circuit.