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Cheap eats Chicago Food Truck Fest

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Cheap eats Chicago Food Truck Fest. The season has begun mark your calendars. Food Trucks are a great way to get a high quality and less-expensive meal on the go and you're also helping a small business owner. Check weekly listing of participating trucks on here. Schedule Daley Plaza 50 … [Read more...] about Cheap eats Chicago Food Truck Fest

Discount dining at Revival Food Hall

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Discount dining at Revival Food Hall. I recently dined at Revival Food Hall and discovered that they participate in the Ritual Take out app.  If you're not familiar with the Ritual app basically you use it to order takeaway and pick up in a special line bypassing the regular line.  When you sign … [Read more...] about Discount dining at Revival Food Hall

Get free food with Fooda

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Get free food with Fooda. About Fooda Fooda is a company that arranges restaurant pop-ups.  Fooda works with a company, office building or mall to arrange for daily (Monday-Friday) restaurant pop-ups.  Every day a new restaurant comes to that location and serves lunch for two hours. The options … [Read more...] about Get free food with Fooda

Chicago French Market Happy Hour

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Chicago French Market Happy Hour. When: Mondays - Fridays 4:30PM-6:30PM Location:  131 N. Clinton, between Randolph and Washington, 312-575-0306.  Market hours: Monday – Friday 7:00am-7:30pm  /  Saturday 8:30am-5:30pm  / Closed Sunday The Market also has free music performances on Wed. and … [Read more...] about Chicago French Market Happy Hour

Downtown Chicago Dive Bars

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Downtown Chicago Dive Bars. I'm asked, a lot, where can you go to get a cheap drink downtown?  Well that would be at one of our illustrious dive bars.  Please don't take offense.  I have drank at all of these bars. These establishments serve their purpose in the affordable early morning, day and … [Read more...] about Downtown Chicago Dive Bars

Save Big at Shops at North Bridge

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I posted about the amazing savings with Spring Rewards here.  Shopper Rewards works just like Spring Rewards (Spring Rewards runs Shopper Rewards). Location: Shops at North Bridge, 520 N. Michigan and select stores and restaurants in the Shops at North Bridge District Overview When you sign up … [Read more...] about Save Big at Shops at North Bridge

Free money with Ritual App

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Free money with Ritual App. Ritual allows you to skip the line, place to-go orders and there are never any added fees or mark ups. I checked several restaurants and Ritual prices matched the in-store prices. The selection of participating restaurants is decent.  And the app works really well.  … [Read more...] about Free money with Ritual App

Chipotle BOGO free entree

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Chipotle BOGO free entree. When:  Friday, March 2, 2018 Where: Participating locations. Get a free entree with purchase at Chipotle to celebrate Hockey Weekend Across America.  Wear your hockey jersey to get a buy-one-get-one-free burrito, bowl, salad or tacos at participating … [Read more...] about Chipotle BOGO free entree

Free events and deals Do312 Week

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Free events and deals Do312 Week. When: March 5-12, 2017 Where: Various locations What is Do312 Week? Do312 week is something new. It's a series of free events and deals sponsored by Goose Island Brewing. Registration for events is required and it looks like anyone can register but they'll … [Read more...] about Free events and deals Do312 Week

Earn $10 or more Gift Card Dining Out Plus $5 Sign up Bonus

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Earn $10 or more Gift Card Dining Out Plus $5 Sign up Bonus. Seated has made some new improvements to their app. Details below. Improvements to Seated Seated now accepts reservations for parties of one and up to eight (used to be six) and they've made it possible for you to get your bonus by … [Read more...] about Earn $10 or more Gift Card Dining Out Plus $5 Sign up Bonus

Save money while dining out

Chicago on the Cheap participates in affiliate programs. That's how the bills get paid! Though the site earns some revenue if you buy a deal through one of our affiliate links, Chicago on the Cheap retains full editorial control over the deals posted. It limits the use of affiliate links to the types of deals routinely posted on the site. Thank you! Read full disclosure here.

Save money while dining out. We all have days when we don’t feel like cooking or we just want to eat out.  Dining out can be expensive and we should never spend money we don’t have in hand. Saving money when dining out takes some planning on the front end. Here are 35 ways to help you dine out … [Read more...] about Save money while dining out

Opentable Devaluation: Use points now

Chicago on the Cheap participates in affiliate programs. That's how the bills get paid! Though the site earns some revenue if you buy a deal through one of our affiliate links, Chicago on the Cheap retains full editorial control over the deals posted. It limits the use of affiliate links to the types of deals routinely posted on the site. Thank you! Read full disclosure here.

Opentable Devaluation: Use points now. If you are a user of Opentable heads up - sometime since October 10 Opentable has devalued their program. Read more about Opentable here. Update Opentable has sent out an email  stating that on March 31, 2018, they’ll be updating the program. Any Dining … [Read more...] about Opentable Devaluation: Use points now

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