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What’s cheap near you right now, and how long you’ve got.
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PROJECTED 12 places scheduled nearby at 16:00 first to close 17:00, Forbidden Root Brewery
Distances run from the middle of what we have verified in Ukrainian Village, 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.
- $6 draft beer, $8-15 cocktails, $2.50-25 food, daily 3.30-5.30pm 1h 30m left Boeufhaus, Ukrainian Village $2.50 printed 0.5 mi out, about 13 min on the grid · 15:30-17:30 · boeufhaus.com
- $7 rum punch, $4 Jameson and Red Stripe, Tuesday to Friday 3 to 6pm 2h left Mr. Brown's Lounge West Town, Ukrainian Village $4 printed 0.3 mi out, about 7 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · mrbrownslounge.com
- $5 Asahi and sake bombs, $6 wine and Aperol Spritz, Monday to Friday 3 to 6pm 2h left Little Wok, Wicker Park, bordering $4 printed 0.5 mi out, about 11 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · little-wok.com
- Half off bar snacks, $5 drafts, $10 flight 1h left Forbidden Root Brewery, Ukrainian Village $5 printed 0.4 mi out, about 8 min on the grid · 15:00-17:00 · forbiddenroot.com
- $10 spritzes, $8 bites, half-price pizzas, weekdays 3 to 6pm 2h left Oggi Trattoria, West Town, bordering $8 printed 0.7 mi out, about 15 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · oggitrattoria.org
- Half-price happy hour, $9 beer and shot combos 2h left Easy Bar, Wicker Park, bordering $9 printed 0.5 mi out, about 12 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · easybarchicago.com
- 26% off the entire menu 3h left GoodFunk West Town, West Town, bordering no printed price 0.6 mi out, about 12 min on the grid · 16:00-19:00 · goodfunkchicago.com
- Free conservatory admission for Chicago residents 1h left Garfield Park Conservatory, Humboldt Park, bordering free 2.0 mi out, about 51 min on the grid · 10:00-17:00 · garfieldconservatory.org About 51 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
- $3-4 tacos, $10 margaritas, palomas and cantaritos, Tuesday to Friday 4 to 6pm 2h left Diego, West Town, bordering $3 printed 1.1 mi out, about 28 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · diegochicago.com About 28 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
- $10 classic cocktails, $8 wine, $5 drafts, $5 sliders, weekdays 3 to 6pm 2h left The Dandy Crown, West Town, bordering $5 printed 1.4 mi out, about 30 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · thedandycrown.com About 30 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
- Friday, employee pricing on drinks, 3 to 6pm 2h left Clover Sports & Leisure, West Town, bordering no printed price 1.7 mi out, about 40 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · cloverchicago.com About 40 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
- 50% off drinks, Fridays 3-7pm 3h left Rebel & Rye, West Town, bordering no printed price 1.7 mi out, about 40 min on the grid · 15:00-19:00 · rebelandrye.com About 40 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
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- 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.