In Force · Chicago

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Tonight

Two cheap stops, the walk between them, and the last train home. Pick a start and we’ll line up the night.

Just one place? See what’s cheap near you right now, and how long you’ve got.

The evening

Walks are timed along the grid at an easy 3 mph. Two stops, not three: a third is where a plan becomes a schedule somebody has to obey.

21 nights that work

  1. Meeting House Tavern → Meeting House Tavern

    17:00–19:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 21:00–23:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (1 min walk), after 89 min with nowhere to be

    $10 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $4 Old Style, PBR and Hamm's beers all day and night · $8 WYNK and $6 Premium Well cocktails, Fridays 9pm to 2am

  2. Meeting House Tavern → Meeting House Tavern

    17:00–19:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 21:00–23:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (1 min walk), after 89 min with nowhere to be

    $11 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $5 Jager, Fireball and Malort shots all day and night · $8 WYNK and $6 Premium Well cocktails, Fridays 9pm to 2am

  3. Nobody's Darling → Meeting House Tavern

    16:00–18:00 Nobody's Darling, Andersonville · 21:00–23:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (15 min walk), after 165 min with nowhere to be

    One of these doesn’t print a price, so there’s no total.

    Darling specials, Friday 4 to 6pm · $8 WYNK and $6 Premium Well cocktails, Fridays 9pm to 2am

  4. Bar Roma → Meeting House Tavern

    16:00–18:00 Bar Roma, Andersonville · 21:00–23:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (2 min walk), after 178 min with nowhere to be

    One of these doesn’t print a price, so there’s no total.

    Happy hour, Tuesday to Sunday 4 to 6pm, tavern and patio · $8 WYNK and $6 Premium Well cocktails, Fridays 9pm to 2am

  5. Bar Roma → Meeting House Tavern

    16:00–16:58 Bar Roma, Andersonville · 17:00–19:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (2 min walk)

    One of these doesn’t print a price, so there’s no total.

    Happy hour, Tuesday to Sunday 4 to 6pm, tavern and patio · $4 Old Style, PBR and Hamm's beers all day and night

  6. Bar Roma → Meeting House Tavern

    16:00–16:58 Bar Roma, Andersonville · 17:00–19:30 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (2 min walk)

    One of these doesn’t print a price, so there’s no total.

    Happy hour, Tuesday to Sunday 4 to 6pm, tavern and patio · $5 Jager, Fireball and Malort shots all day and night

  7. Meeting House Tavern → 2Bears Tavern Uptown

    17:00–17:45 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 18:05–20:35 2Bears Tavern Uptown, Uptown (20 min walk)

    $4 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $4 Old Style, PBR and Hamm's beers all day and night · No cover, weeknights and Friday from 5pm

  8. Meeting House Tavern → 2Bears Tavern Uptown

    17:00–17:45 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 18:05–20:35 2Bears Tavern Uptown, Uptown (20 min walk)

    $5 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $5 Jager, Fireball and Malort shots all day and night · No cover, weeknights and Friday from 5pm

  9. Meeting House Tavern → 2Bears Tavern Uptown

    21:00–21:45 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 22:05–00:35 2Bears Tavern Uptown, Uptown (20 min walk)

    $6 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $8 WYNK and $6 Premium Well cocktails, Fridays 9pm to 2am · No cover, weeknights and Friday from 5pm

  10. Meeting House Tavern → Meeting House Tavern

    17:00–17:45 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 17:46–20:16 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (1 min walk)

    $9 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $4 Old Style, PBR and Hamm's beers all day and night · $5 Jager, Fireball and Malort shots all day and night

  11. Meeting House Tavern → Meeting House Tavern

    17:00–17:45 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 17:46–20:16 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville (1 min walk)

    $9 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $5 Jager, Fireball and Malort shots all day and night · $4 Old Style, PBR and Hamm's beers all day and night

  12. Meeting House Tavern → Carol's Pub

    17:00–17:45 Meeting House Tavern, Andersonville · 17:55–20:25 Carol's Pub, Uptown (10 min walk)

    $12 printed across both, before tax, tip and anything else.

    $4 Old Style, PBR and Hamm's beers all day and night · Friday drink specials, $8 Old Style and a shot

These are the top 12. 9 more work too, ranked the same way.

Sorted by time sitting down. Anything that outlasts the last train goes to the bottom, not away: you can still do those, you’re just getting a cab.

What this can’t tell you

Whether there’s a table. Whether the kitchen’s still on. Whether the second place has a line at nine on a Friday. None of that is in any record we can fetch, so none of it is claimed here. A place we can’t put on the map is left out too, because the walk between two stops is the whole trick and a guessed one would still print as minutes. How a deal earns a light.