Just as your green beer-induced hangovers from Saturday have subsided and you’ve located any lost items - jackets, cell phones, purses, etc. from Chicago’s favorite “holiday” weekend, today is officially St. Patrick’s Day.  To be or not to be?  Do you throw on another green top, yell “Erin Go Braugh” and tie one on?  Or do you avoid another weekday/work morning turned miserable from the multiple Irish Car Bombs & shots of Jamo you just couldn’t get enough of last night?

Not sure of our own plans yet, we do have a great option to share for Friday night - a more fabulous and shall we say, more civilized, night out.  A night that at last you can wear cute shoes without the high risk of them being thrown up on, stepped on or the sometimes higher risk that you will somehow manage to lose one.  Or both.  We had a feeling you & your girls might be feeling the same way right around this time.  So, we planned ahead & hooked you up. This Friday, join PLRG at Manor for some complimentary cocktails & champagne…and a night on the town.

Get there between 10-11pm for complimentary admission and a hosted cocktail reception, just mention PoorLittleRichGirls. Plus, email in advance for reservations and get a comp bottle of champagne (for groups of six or more girls). You’ll also have the option of $30 package for call drinks from 10pm-1am, you know…for when the champagne runs out. And, if you wanna keep the party going, you’ll receive free VIP admission late night at RiNo.

For reservations, email michele@chicagotwentysomething.com and say we sent you.

(Noelle Provencial)

Originally published March 17, 2010.

For our Anniversary Issue, you voted on your favorite spots for partying it up in Chicago. Below are the winners from our “Bars & Drinks” category. For your own safety though, we don’t recommend hitting them up all in one night!

Best Place for $1 Beers
Kincade’s (950 W. Armitage)
Every Wednesday is $1 beer night at Kincade’s and you’ve named it your favorite! Anyone’s who’s been will tell you that the crowd skews a bit young and the three-level bar gets super packed, but the cheap drinks and karaoke make it all worth it. They also serve up $5 well cocktails on hump-day, so no matter what your poison, Kincade’s is sure to get you through the week for super cheap

Best Place to Drink & Dance
The Hangge Uppe (14 W. Elm St.)
We are assuming our readers are the type who only dance when they are drunk (really drunk), since they chose this place as their fave spot to boogy down and booze it up. Don’t get us wrong, this is our favorite too, but the fact that it’s a flaming hot mess, and not at all pretentious, is what makes us love it so much. There’s two levels, with oldies tunes playing in the basement and top 40 playing upstairs, so everyone from co-eds to mom and dad can dance to the music they grew up with (though we highly recommend NOT taking your parents there, especially not after 12am). Best of all, it’s within stumbling distance of Chicago’s best neighborhood bar (named by you), Butch McGuire’s.

Best Neighborhood Bar
Butch McGuire’s (20 W. Division St.)
Eryn has her own name for Division Street- “Drunk as a Skunk Street.” So, it’s only fitting that you think Chicago’s best neighborhood bar resides there. Sure it gets packed with inebriated tourists late-night, but before 11pm this is truly a neighborhood spot. Most days and evenings the crowd is made up of neighbors, regulars even families enjoying Butch’s tasty brunch, lunch and dinner menus. And, if you don’t make it to Butch’s any other time, be sure to stop by around the holidays when they put up an outrageous Christmas display (alone, it’s worth the trip!).

Best for Dressing Up & Drinking Grown-Up Cocktails
Vertigo Sky Lounge (660 N. State)
Perched atop the Dana Hotel, this lounge is one of Chicago’s newest hot spots. Whether you feel like having a sophisticated after-work drink or want to see and be seen late-night, Vertigo has something for everyone. Designed to feel like your ultra trendy (and ultra rich) friend’s apartment, Vertigo has the market cornered on cocktailing in comfort. To further this effort, they skipped over building an actual bar and went with waitresses manning drink carts instead, so no need to worry about losing your seat by the fire-pit to get yourself a drink. If only we really had friends with pads like this!

(Lacey Brenly)

For our Anniversary Issue next month we’ll be cluing you in to the best of what the city has to offer. But, we don’t want to just sit here in our ivory towers telling you what you will like best. We think it makes more sense for you to tell us.

So, for our first round of voting, we’ll be taking a look at what Chicago has to offer in the way of alcoholic beverages. Happy drinking!

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It’s almost June, and if you didn’t plan ahead and become good “friends” with that dude in your office with the sweet roof-top apartment near Wrigley Field, then shame on you. On the other hand, we suppose we should congratulate you for not being vapid and shallow. Bravo!

You see, at PLRG we’ve got our Cubs pre and post game rituals down to science. In our experience, we’ve found that sometimes the only way to offset the $6.50 Old Styles at the friendly confines is via an intense pre-gaming regime involving duct-taped on 40’s (Eduardo Litros Manos for our Spanish speaking friends) and shots of Skol.

But if you’d prefer to not celebrate the Cubs victory with your new friends from the Betty Ford Clinic, then here are a few of our favorite spots near the stadium. Read on, and please, keep it classy ladies.

Moxie (3517 N. Clark)
Yes, it’s a little bit more upscale than the usual haunts in Wrigley, but they also happen to serve the best Dark & Stormy in the city, their pizza of the day always rocks and the small tapas style portions enable you to grab food before the game and not feel too guilty about getting a Chicago Dog in the top of the 6th.

Bernie’s Tavern (3664 N. Clark)
A Wrigley tradition and by far the best and biggest beer garden we’ve seen in awhile. The beers, burgers and brats are cheap and delicious. Plus, it’s literally right across the street from the field. Enough said.

Roadhouse 66 (3330 N. Clark)
If you’re willing to go slightly off the beaten path, you will find this little gem that Lacey considers to be “just like Cheers.” A bar we don’t have to dedicate years to before we’re treated like regulars? Signed, sealed, delivered… it’s ours.

Newport Bar & Grill (1334 W. Newport)
Another “off the beaten path,” this is a sure-fire, not too packed bar for post game. The stars aligned one night a few months back when a few of us PLRG’s stumbled upon this bar. Como se dice $2 PBR’s? We can’t vouch that the deals will be that great on game day, but we can tell you that you’ll have one of the best (albeit dive-iest) nights of your life. Oh, and just a warning: the regulars get a bit disgruntled when you play Meatloaf on the jukebox… on repeat.

Happy Summer. Play Safe. Go Cubs.

(Lindsey Duda)

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