River North is where a lot of Chicago's after-work crowd lands first — steakhouses, Italian rooms and basement cocktail bars packed into the blocks between the river and Chicago Avenue. Happy hours here lean toward real food at bar prices, and most start early enough to beat the dinner rush.
Nothing on our sample is pouring right now. Most start again tomorrow afternoon — the app's On now filter tracks all 200.
Most of these start around 4 PM and run until about 6 PM. 2 of the 3 also run on the weekend. One has an oyster deal.
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.
With every deal, the On now filter and a map of the neighborhood.
Close enough to walk between — tap a marker to see which one it is.
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.
Or search “Whosly: Plans, Places & RSVPs” on the App Store
“Whosly: Plans, Places & RSVPs”.
The happy hour packs are included with Planner Pro. Starting a plan and RSVPing are free, always.
