“Bartender, I’ll have the usual.”

It’s safe. It’s easy. But you know what else it is? Boring.

Which means it's probably high time you shook up your cocktail game via drinks infused with leather and topped with clouds of rosé. And so we hit a corner bar or 10 to seek out the season’s most creative cocktails, made with things that didn't belong anywhere near a coupe glass until now.

Meet the Spring 2017 lineup of Chicago’s weirdest and most wonderful cocktails...