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Last-Minute St. Patrick's Day Plans

You had a good time this weekend, shamrock-wise. Well done. Now get set for more shenanigans tomorrow night. Herewith, the best places to take your green…

St. Pat's at McFadden's Chicago
KEGS & EGGS

St. Pat's at McFadden's Chicago

This Gold Coast Irish bar wins the award for the earliest opening—it starts with a 7am beer-and-breakfast buffet, followed by a day of stilt walkers, free T-shirts and one green-clad Irish go-go dancer. Make that at least one.

$20 for breakfast (7-9am), festivities till 4am, Mar 17, 1206 N. State Pkwy, 312-475-9450

Corned Beef Slider Eating Contest
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Corned Beef Slider Eating Contest

The Fifty/50 is giving you a chance to consume your yearly allowance of corned beef in one night. Be the first to polish off 15 corned beef sliders, and win a cocktail party for all your friends. Cabbage not included.

Free to enter contest, 7:30pm, Mar 17, 2047 W. Division St (W. of Damen), 773-489-5050

$1 Beer Class at Brasserie Jo
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$1 Beer Class at Brasserie Jo

Even with a torrent of Irish stout flooding the streets of Chicago, brewmaster Hildegard van Ostaden wants to give you a lesson in Belgian beer-drinking, and her enrollment fee is an extremely recession-friendly one dollar. Consider it graduate studies.

$1, 6-7pm, Mar 17, 59 W. Hubbard St (W. of Dearborn), 312-595-0800

Night O' the Irish at Drinks Over Dearborn
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Night O' the Irish at Drinks Over Dearborn

This liquor boutique's party will have plenty of Irish beers, corned beef sandwiches and demos on making the perfect Half-and-Half. But we think your time will be best spent in the Irish whiskey tasting room… you know, mingling.

$35, 5:30-8:30pm, Mar 17, 650 N. Dearborn St (at Erie), 2nd floor, 312-337-9463

Slamrock Party at Stone Lotus
NO DANNY BOY

Slamrock Party at Stone Lotus

We've always found the haunting call of the bagpipes a bit tough to dance to. Stone Lotus agrees. Tomorrow night, theirs is a pipe-free zone, with a retro dance party and a full slate of absinthe cocktails. Green fairy, meet your leprechaun…

$20, 11pm-4am, Mar 17, 873 N. Orleans St, 312-440-9680, no cover with rsvp here

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