Cerdito Muerto, a speakeasy-style cocktail bar with a contemporary Mexican American kitchen that’s transformed an old family home that survived the Great Chicago Fire , opened in Pilsen on June 26 .

The name translates in Spanish to “the dead piglet,” but is meant in a playful way, said Emidio Oceguera, owner of the debut business.

“Being a first-generation Mexican American son of farmers and ranchers, pigs and piglets are pretty endearing in our culture,” said Oceguera.

The space was his mother Consuelo Oceguera’s restaurant, Tacos Palacio, and his late father Miguel Oceguera’s neighborhood pool hall.

“Even to this day, my partner calls me Piggy, so Piggy and piglets have always been kind of part of my identity,” he said. His wife and business partner Sarah Dickerson is their head

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