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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 22 places scheduled nearby at 16:00 first to close 17:00, Scofflaw

Distances run from the middle of what we have verified in Bucktown, 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. Half-price drinks 3h left Remedy, Bucktown no printed price right there, about 2 min on the grid · 16:00-19:00 · remedybarchicago.com
  2. Classic lime margarita 10 and Modelo or XX Amber 5, Wednesday to Sunday 4 to 6pm 2h left Manchamanteles, Bucktown no printed price 0.2 mi out, about 5 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · manchamantelesrestaurant.com
  3. $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 0.9 mi out, about 25 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · little-wok.com
  4. $8 cocktails Friday-Sunday 3-5pm 1h left Scofflaw, Logan Square, bordering $8 printed 1.1 mi out, about 25 min on the grid · 15:00-17:00 · scofflawchicago.com
  5. $2 oysters, $6 drafts, $10 cocktails, Sun to Fri 3 to 5pm 1h left BiXi Beer, Logan Square, bordering $2 printed no position on file, so no walk is measured · 15:00-17:00 · bixi.beer
  6. $9 spritzes and $10 espresso martinis, Monday to Friday 3 to 6pm 2h left Homeslice, Lincoln Park, bordering $9 printed no position on file, so no walk is measured · 15:00-18:00 · happycamper.pizza
  7. Half price drinks Friday and Saturday 4 to 6pm 2h left aliveOne, Lincoln Park, bordering no printed price no position on file, so no walk is measured · 16:00-18:00 · aliveone.com
  8. Half-price happy hour, $9 beer and shot combos 2h left Easy Bar, Wicker Park, bordering $9 printed 0.9 mi out, about 26 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · easybarchicago.com About 26 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  9. Friday 3-5pm happy hour 1h left Federales Logan Square, Logan Square, bordering $8 printed 1.2 mi out, about 33 min on the grid · 15:00-17:00 · federaleslogan.com About 33 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  10. $4 beer, $5 wine, $10 martinis, $5 wagyu burger 2h left Summer House, Lincoln Park, bordering $4 printed 1.9 mi out, about 42 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · summerhouserestaurants.com About 42 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  11. Friday, $30 bottomless beers, cocktails and a Park Burger, 4 to 6pm 2h left Park & Field, Logan Square, bordering $30 printed 1.6 mi out, about 42 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · parkandfieldchicago.com About 42 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  12. Happy hour, Tuesday to Friday 4 to 6pm 2h left Soul Prime, Lincoln Park, bordering no printed price 1.9 mi out, about 42 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · soulprimechicago.com About 42 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  13. $1.50 pintxos, $3-5 tapas, $4 Estrella, $23 sangria pitchers 2h left Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba!, Lincoln Park, bordering $1.50 printed 1.9 mi out, about 44 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · cafebabareeba.com About 44 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  14. Free admission 1h left DePaul Art Museum, Lincoln Park, bordering free 1.9 mi out, about 48 min on the grid · 11:00-17:00 · resources.depaul.edu About 48 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  15. Bring your own bottle, every day 10am to 9pm 5h left El Asadero Colombiano #2, Bucktown no printed price 1.9 mi out, about 49 min on the grid · 10:00-21:00 · elasaderocolombiano2.com About 49 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  16. $4 bottles, $5 drafts, $8 featured cocktail, weekdays 4 to 7pm 3h left Surge Billiards Logan Square, Logan Square, bordering $4 printed 1.9 mi out, about 49 min on the grid · 16:00-19:00 · surgebilliards.com About 49 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  17. $6 taps and $10 apps, weekdays 3-6pm 2h left The Bad Apple, Lincoln Park, bordering $6 printed 2.1 mi out, about 53 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · badapplebar.com About 53 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  18. $7 fried pickles at happy hour, Monday to Friday 3 to 6pm 2h left Corcoran's Grill & Pub, Lincoln Park, bordering $7 printed 2.6 mi out, about 58 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · corcoransoldtown.com About 58 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  19. Free admission for Illinois residents 18 and under 30m left Chicago History Museum, Lincoln Park, bordering free 2.8 mi out, about 61 min on the grid · 09:30-16:30 · chicagohistory.org About 61 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  20. $7 glasses of wine, Fridays 4-6pm 2h left Gaslight, Lincoln Park, bordering $7 printed 2.4 mi out, about 62 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · gaslightbar.com About 62 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  21. $10 ice cream, spam musubi and macaroni salad plate, Tuesday to Friday 2 to 5pm 1h left Aloha Eats, Lincoln Park, bordering $10 printed 2.4 mi out, about 63 min on the grid · 14:00-17:00 · alohaeats.com About 63 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  22. Free zoo 1h left Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park, bordering free 2.8 mi out, about 68 min on the grid · 08:00-17:00 · lpzoo.org About 68 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  23. Free zoo admission, no reservation needed 1h left Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park, bordering free 2.8 mi out, about 68 min on the grid · 08:00-17:00 · lpzoo.org About 68 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.

Held back from the reading: 16 you couldn’t reach in time, kept at the bottom; 3 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.