A few of our favorite Chicago deals, with real prices and times checked on each venue's own menu. The full list of 200 — every deal, by neighborhood, and what's pouring this minute — lives in the Whosly app.
Nothing on our sample is pouring right now. Most start again tomorrow afternoon — the app's On now filter tracks all 200.
Rick Bayless's mezcal den in the alley behind Frontera. The happy hour runs every night it opens and all night Wednesday, with oysters for a dollar on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
A dim, vintage-styled room on Kinzie that opens with an hour of deals: sliders, bone marrow, teeny martinis and highballs. Wednesdays, wine bottles are half off all night.
A red-sauce Italian on Hubbard where the bar runs an aperitivo menu: negronis, Italian wines and small plates — arancini, meatballs, a little pepperoni focaccia.
Paul Kahan's Fulton Market beer hall hands its long communal tables to the after-work crowd: oysters by the piece, a short run of bar snacks, and a beer a cicerone picks.
An Italian steakhouse on Randolph whose daily happy hour, at the bar or on the patio, is one of the street's best: oysters chilled or grilled, a meatball, bruschetta and ten-dollar cocktails.
A glamorous Randolph Street room with a second-floor bar. Its 'happier hour' runs every day of the week, with grilled oysters, croquetas, classic cocktails and wine at set prices.
Before dinner the pasta room turns into a vermouth bar — house blends poured cheap, Spanish and Portuguese tinned fish, and the onion dip with house-made chips.
A Pan-American cocktail bar on California Avenue whose daily happy hour covers the whole cocktail list at one price, with oysters, empanadas and pão de queijo alongside.
The brewery's bakery-and-pizza hall pours its own beer and Michigan-grown wines cheap and marks down the classic pizzas — a family-friendly happy hour on Armitage.
A nautical Division Street tavern that hosts a Motorshucker raw bar on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings — oysters by the piece with gin or vodka martinis.
A Chinese-American kitchen inside a cocktail bar. Happy hour lands every day: egg rolls and crab rangoon, a 'Midori' sour, and a shot with a Hamm's and an egg roll.
An Indian-inspired cocktail bar on Division whose Thursday-to-Sunday early hours bring $7 tiger fries, vada pav and a $15 burger, with every wine at $10.
A LaSalle Street steakhouse whose bar halves its menu in the early evening and sells oysters by the piece. On Sundays the deal runs well into dinner.
A brasserie in the landmark Monadnock Building whose bar-side happy hour starts mid-afternoon: oysters, a steak slider, beef-fat frites and a glass of Muscadet.
A Loop Mexican room with an early hour every day: $6 chips and salsa, $8 empanadas, $10 margaritas and $3 tacos on Tuesdays.
An English pub downstairs and a cocktail parlour above. The weekday deal is pub food — curry fries, wings, fish and chips — with Tullamore and an old fashioned.
Galit's little-sister café turns into a bistro by evening, and its short happy hour brings two-dollar oysters, za'atar fries and a date old fashioned. Wednesdays, wine bottles are half off.
The Halsted Street tapas institution keeps its bar happy hour going every day of the week: pintxos for pocket change, small plates for a few dollars, sangria by the pitcher.
Erick Williams's Southern dining room on 53rd sets its bar aside for an early menu — gumbo by the cup, catfish sliders, wings with a biscuit. The bar seats first-come, so arrive near the start.
The Gold Coast Italian room opens its bar and patio to a long weekday happy hour: $2 oysters, $9 bites and cocktails, and a caviar bump with a glass of Champagne.
You've seen 20 of 200. The app has the rest, every deal, and what's on right now near you.
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This page is a sample. The Chicago Happy Hour pack in Whosly has every one of the 200 — 1,176 deals with their prices and times — and tells you which are pouring right now.
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