I'll chime in with another vote for Tivoli Bowl. I bowled there for a couple of years. Getting to the pocket wasn't all that tough, but getting the pins to fall down certainly was. Bad racks and no pin action left you reaching for your spare ball before your first ball had even reached the pins!
Broadview can also be fairly tough. The las time I bowled there, I swore they only oiled the backends. Down the lane, that place was tight, tight, tight. It may have just been an isolated incident, but I would not be in a hurry to go back there.
Suburbanite Bowl in Westmont is another night-and-day center. I used to rip the place apart during summer practice sessions, but they would always get nasty when ABT came to town. I remember more than one occasion in which cut scores were down in the negatives.
You guys who mentioned Rolling Lanes are on track, at least in the experiences that I used to have. If they've changed the lanes, then maybe things have improved, but that place used to be fairly tough.
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