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Daily Deal$: Tuesday

By Sun-Times Wire

Every day, we’ll be alerting you to five great food and drink deals around town, courtesy of Centerstage Chicago’s comprehensive database. In this economy, you need all the help you can get, right?

Bill’s Blues Bar

$2 cans of PBR, $3 Jager shots

Coobah

$6 pitchers of sangria

Gannon’s Pub

$2.75 bottled beer; $3 hamburgers w/ fries

Louie’s Pub

$2 cans of PBR

Theory

Half-price appetizers; $5 Jameson, $5 shots of SoCo

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