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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 12 places scheduled nearby at 16:00 first to close 17:00, Tuco & Blondie

Distances run from the middle of what we have verified in Wrigleyville, 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. $5 call cocktails and domestic drafts, weekdays 3 to 6pm 2h left The Butcher's Tap, Wrigleyville $5 printed 0.3 mi out, about 9 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · thebutcherstap.com
  2. $8 house margaritas, $5 Mexican drafts, half-price appetizers, weekdays 4 to 6pm 2h left El Mariachi Tequila Bar & Grill, Wrigleyville $5 printed 0.5 mi out, about 14 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · elmariachitequilabar.com
  3. $6 mini tacos, margaritas, drafts and frosé, weekdays 3 to 5pm 1h left Tuco & Blondie, Lakeview, bordering $6 printed 0.5 mi out, about 14 min on the grid · 15:00-17:00 · tucoandblondie.com
  4. 8 plates for $8, $8 cocktails, $7 wine, $5 drafts, Wednesday to Sunday 4 to 6.30pm 2h 30m left Port & Park Bistro, Wrigleyville $5 printed 0.5 mi out, about 15 min on the grid · 16:00-18:30 · portandparkchicago.com
  5. $10 cocktails and $9 wine, Friday 4 to 5pm 1h left Figo Wine Bar, Lakeview, bordering $9 printed 0.6 mi out, about 15 min on the grid · 16:00-17:00 · figowinebar.com
  6. $3 Revolution cans, $5 call shots on Fridays 10h left Lincoln Tap Room, Lakeview, bordering $3 printed 0.9 mi out, about 23 min on the grid · 15:00-02:00 · lincolntaproom.com
  7. $3 PBR, $4 Tecate, $5-8 wine, $7-12 appetizers, weekdays 4 to 6pm 2h left Wilde Bar & Restaurant, Lakeview, bordering $3 printed 1.0 mi out, about 27 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · wildechicago.com About 27 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  8. $4 Miller Lite, $5 Stella, $6 wine and well drinks, $6.95 bites, weekdays 3 to 6pm 2h left George Street Pub, Lakeview, bordering $4 printed 1.1 mi out, about 28 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · gspchicago.com About 28 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  9. Half-price drinks for Friday Afternoon Club members, 3-6pm 2h left Clover Lincoln Park, Lakeview, bordering no printed price 1.1 mi out, about 30 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · cloverlincolnpark.com About 30 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  10. Friday drink specials, $8 Old Style and a shot 10h left Carol's Pub, Uptown, bordering $8 printed 1.4 mi out, about 35 min on the grid · 14:00-02:00 · carolspub.com About 35 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  11. Happy hour wine, cocktails, beer, and small plates 2h left Le Sud, Lakeview, bordering no printed price 1.5 mi out, about 36 min on the grid · 16:00-18:00 · lesudchicago.com About 36 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.
  12. $4 Fireball and Miller Lite, $6 Chicago Hand Shake, Monday to Friday 3 to 6pm 2h left The Ravenswood Tavern, Lakeview, bordering $4 printed 1.3 mi out, about 37 min on the grid · 15:00-18:00 · theravenswoodtavern.com About 37 min on the grid, longer than the 25 min walk you asked for.

Held back from the reading: 6 you couldn’t reach in time, kept at the bottom.

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.

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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.