Near · In Force · Chicago
What’s cheap near you right now, and how long you’ve got.
Pick your neighborhood. We’ll time the walk to each place and tell you how long you’ll have once you’re there.
Looking ahead: this is the schedule for a time that hasn’t come yet. Back to right now.
PROJECTED 120 places scheduled across the city at 16:00 first to close 16:30, Chicago History Museum
Pick a neighborhood above and every place below gets a walking time. Until then, the walk and time limits aren’t applied.
- Free admission for Illinois residents 18 and under 30m left Chicago History Museum, Lincoln Park free no plate named, so no walk is measured · 09:30-16:30 · chicagohistory.org
- Always-free museum admission 30m left Smart Museum of Art, Hyde Park free no plate named, so no walk is measured · 10:00-16:30 · smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
- $3 general admission with EBT/WIC 1h left Field Museum, South Loop $3 printed no plate named, so no walk is measured · 09:00-17:00 · fieldmuseum.org
- Free admission for anyone 18 and under 1h left Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, River North free no plate named, so no walk is measured · 10:00-17:00 · mcachicago.org
- Always-free museum admission 1h left National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen free no plate named, so no walk is measured · 10:00-17:00 · nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org
- Free zoo admission, no reservation needed 1h left Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park free no plate named, so no walk is measured · 08:00-17:00 · lpzoo.org
- Free conservatory admission for Chicago residents 1h left Garfield Park Conservatory, Humboldt Park free no plate named, so no walk is measured · 10:00-17:00 · garfieldconservatory.org
- Friday 3-5pm happy hour 1h left Federales Logan Square, Logan Square $8 printed no plate named, so no walk is measured · 15:00-17:00 · federaleslogan.com
- $8 cocktails Friday-Sunday 3-5pm 1h left Scofflaw, Logan Square $8 printed no plate named, so no walk is measured · 15:00-17:00 · scofflawchicago.com
- Half-price oysters, wines, and classic cocktails 1h left Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, River North $10 printed no plate named, so no walk is measured · 14:00-17:00 · joes.net
- Half-price oysters and $5-10 drinks in the Oyster Bar 1h left Shaw's Crab House, River North $5 printed no plate named, so no walk is measured · 15:00-17:00 · shawscrabhouse.com
- Half off bar snacks, $5 drafts, $10 flight 1h left Forbidden Root Brewery, Ukrainian Village $5 printed no plate named, so no walk is measured · 15:00-17:00 · forbiddenroot.com
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The walk is a grid distance at a deliberately slow pace, not a curb, elevator or accessible-route audit, and it starts from the plate rather than from your doorstep. Tax, tip, queues and unsourced minimum purchases are not invented into a printed figure. A window with no dollar figure printed on its source is never read as the cheap one.
Nothing about you is stored and nothing is asked of your device: the whole of what you said is in the link, which is also how you hand this reading to somebody else. Every row links to its slip, with the source and the day it was last read, and how a deal earns a light is written down. The desk carries what could not be confirmed.