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 36 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 West 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.
- Free admission 1h left Museum of Contemporary Photography, South Loop, bordering free no position on file, so no walk is measured · 10:00-17:00 · mocp.org
- $1 wings, $5 bites, $9 cocktails, weekdays 4 to 6pm 2h left Bandit, West Loop $1 printed 0.2 mi out, about 5 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · banditliquors.com
- $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 0.8 mi out, about 20 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · primeandprovisions.com
- $2-12 oysters, tacos, pours and bites, weekdays 3 to 5pm 1h left Cruz Blanca, Fulton Market, bordering $2 printed 0.2 mi out, about 6 min on the grid · 15:00-17:00 · cruzblancachi.com
- $2 oysters, $5 snacks, $6 Pork & Beam, $7 beers, $10 wine and martinis, weekdays 4 to 6pm 2h left The Publican, Fulton Market, bordering $2 printed 0.3 mi out, about 8 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · thepublicanrestaurant.com
- $2 oysters, $6 sliders, $9 cocktails, Friday 3.30 to 5.30pm 1h 30m left Bar La Rue, Fulton Market, bordering $2 printed 0.3 mi out, about 8 min on the grid · 15:30-17:30 · barlarue.com
- $5 drafts, $9 margaritas, $2 fries, weekdays 3 to 5pm 1h left Kaiser Tiger, Fulton Market, bordering $2 printed 0.8 mi out, about 19 min on the grid · 15:00-17:00 · kaisertiger.com
- $3-5 shots and drafts, $8 mini pizzas and sliders, weekdays 3 to 6pm 2h left New Line Tavern, West Loop $3 printed 0.4 mi out, about 10 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · newlinetavern.com
- $3-4 tacos, $10 margaritas, palomas and cantaritos, Tuesday to Friday 4 to 6pm 2h left Diego, West Town, bordering $3 printed 0.8 mi out, about 24 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · diegochicago.com
- $5 Asahi, $4 fried chicken bun, $6-7 drinks 2h left Ramen-san Fulton Market, Fulton Market, bordering $4 printed 0.3 mi out, about 7 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · ramensan.com
- $10 cocktail and wine, $4.50-9 snacks, weekdays 3.30 to 5pm 1h left avec, West Loop $4.50 printed 0.2 mi out, about 6 min on the grid · 15:30-17:00 · avecrestaurant.com
- $10 classic cocktails, $8 wine, $5 drafts, $5 sliders, weekdays 3 to 6pm 2h left The Dandy Crown, West Town, bordering $5 printed 0.9 mi out, about 22 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · thedandycrown.com
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Held back from the reading: 7 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.