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?

Cadillac Ranch
$1 well and call drinks, $1 drafts of MGD and Miller Lite, $2.50 mega mugs

Easy Bar
$3 Goose Island, $4 Stoli cocktails

Houndstooth Saloon
Half-off all drinks, $4 specialty margaritas; $3 appetizers, $1 tacos

Jefferson Tap and Grille
$4 Guinness, Smithwick's, Harp, Half & Half and Black & Tan drafts

Poag Mahone's
$15.50 buckets of Bud/Bud Light, $3 vodka cocktails; half-price chips and salsa and spinach artichoke dip after 3 p.m.