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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 19 places scheduled nearby at 16:00 first to close 17:00, Museum of Contemporary Photography

Distances run from the middle of what we have verified in South Loop, which is not the centre of the neighborhood and moves as coverage changes. The walk follows the Chicago grid at 3 miles an hour, so it reads longer than the straight line and longer still than a route that catches a diagonal.

  1. Free admission 1h left Museum of Contemporary Photography, South Loop free no position on file, so no walk is measured · 10:00-17:00 · mocp.org
  2. $3 general admission with EBT/WIC 1h left Field Museum, South Loop $3 printed 0.1 mi out, about 3 min on the grid · 09:00-17:00 · fieldmuseum.org
  3. $6.88 cocktail of the day, weekdays 3 to 6pm, through December 2h left AO Hawaiian Hideout, South Loop $6.88 printed no position on file, so no walk is measured · 15:00-18:00 · aohawaiianhideout.com
  4. $9 speciality cocktails and $7 glasses of wine, daily happy hour 4:00pm to 7:00pm 3h left Cafecito, The Loop, bordering $7 printed 0.9 mi out, about 21 min on the grid · 16:00-19:00 · iheartcafecito.com
  5. $10 martinis and wine, Friday and Saturday 3 to 5pm 1h left VU Rooftop Bar, South Loop $10 printed 0.8 mi out, about 16 min on the grid · 15:00-17:00 · vurooftop.com
  6. Always-free museum admission 1h left National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen, bordering free 2.7 mi out, about 63 min on the grid · 10:00-17:00 · nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org About 63 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  7. $1 wings, $5 bites, $9 cocktails, weekdays 4 to 6pm 2h left Bandit, West Loop, bordering $1 printed 2.0 mi out, about 56 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · banditliquors.com About 56 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  8. $1.50 oysters and half off bar selections, Monday to Friday 4:00pm to 6:00pm 2h left Prime & Provisions, The Loop, bordering $1.50 printed 1.6 mi out, about 42 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · primeandprovisions.com About 42 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  9. $3-5 shots and drafts, $8 mini pizzas and sliders, weekdays 3 to 6pm 2h left New Line Tavern, West Loop, bordering $3 printed 1.8 mi out, about 50 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · newlinetavern.com About 50 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  10. $10 cocktail and wine, $4.50-9 snacks, weekdays 3.30 to 5pm 1h left avec, West Loop, bordering $4.50 printed 1.8 mi out, about 50 min on the grid · 15:30-17:00 · avecrestaurant.com About 50 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  11. $5 off specialty cocktails, $10 selected wines, weekdays 4 to 6pm in the lounge 2h left Ocean Prime, The Loop, bordering $5 printed 1.7 mi out, about 37 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · ocean-prime.com About 37 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  12. $9 wine and shot-beer, $5.95-23.95 bites, weekdays 3 to 7pm 3h left One North Kitchen, The Loop, bordering $5.95 printed 1.5 mi out, about 40 min on the grid · 15:00-19:00 · onenorthchicago.com About 40 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.

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Held back from the reading: 15 you couldn’t reach in time, kept at the bottom; 2 we can’t put on the map, so no walk time.

Two other readings

  • A group, at an hour you name

    Four of you at quarter past six, with the printed price multiplied out per head and across the party. Meet holds arithmetic this page has no business doing for one person.

  • A whole evening, and whether you get home

    Two rooms strung together, the walk between them measured, and the last direct train checked against the hour the second one shuts. Tonight holds the evening this page does not.

Both links carry what you have already said, in the words those pages use. Neither of them asks you for it again.

What this cannot tell you

Whether there is a table. Whether the kitchen is still on. Whether the second room has a queue at nine on a Friday. None of that is in any record we can fetch, so none of it is claimed here.

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.