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Thursday's
Drink Deal$
S M T W Th F S
  • Moxie: $2 domestic beers, $8 pitchers of sangria
  • Easy Bar: $4 Jameson shots
  • Union Park: $1 well drinks and domestic drafts
  • Vaughan's Pub: $2.50 Miller Lite bottles; $2 PBR cans; $5 Terry Palmers
  • Moretti's (West Loop): $2.75 domestic bottles, $4 house cosmos, $6 Miller Lite and MGD "Big Ass Cans," $3 drafts of Leinenkugel Summer Shandy
  • Moonshine: $4 Moonshine drafts, $5 Absolut cocktails
  • Kincade's: $5 Stoli cocktails and Jameson shots, $8 domestic pitchers
  • Horseshoe: $2 PBR tallboys, $3 Lone Star bottles, $3 Shiner Bock bottles
  • She-nannigans: $8 bombs and pitchers of domestic beer, $5 Captain and cola, Smirnoff lemonade and shots of Cuervo
  • Suite Lounge: $5 sangria and mojitos, $8 paradise martinis
  • The Copa: $4 Finlandia cocktails, $8 pitchers of Bud Light
  • Nite Cap Lounge: $3 bottles of domestics, $4 mixed drinks and call shots, $5 bottles of imports and Jager and O bombs
  • Glascott's: $3 beer-of-the-month
  • Bernie's Tavern: $12.50 buckets
  • Martini Room : $7.50 Chocolate Mint martini, $6 Sweet Nutcracker martini, $3 Candy Cane shot
  • Motel Bar: $3 shots of Jim Beam
  • Trinity Bar: $3 pints of Guinness, Blue Moon, Cherry Three Olives and shots of Jameson, $4 Long Island Iced Tea
  • Hidden Shamrock: $2 pints of PBR, $5 Cherry Bombs and O-Bombs
  • Bat 17: $3.95 specialty martinis
  • Dugan's: $3 Peroni, $3 Heineken and Heineken Light
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