Results tagged “freestuff”

Head to any Chicagoland Panera Bread location tomorrow (Thursday, September 10) anytime between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. for their "September Sampler Day" and try free samples of some of their menu items. They'll be serving samples of their Power Breakfast Sandwich, BBQ Chopped Chicken Salad, Napa Almond Chicken Salad Sandwich, Chocolate Fudge Brownies, Macadamia Nut Blondies.

Yes, it's true: Chicago's blue bag recycling program has been a resounding success. So much so, that we're now the greenest city in the world. And if that wasn't satisfaction enough to get the good people of the City that Works to step up to the plate and sort all those empty long necks out of their coffee grounds and chicken bones, the city is starting a pilot program that awards points to households that recycle on a regular basis.

This Friday, the Museum of Science and Industry is hosting the inaugural session of a new farmer’s market. Tomorrow morning, starting at 7:30, there will be a grand opening celebration featuring the Hearty Boys, as seen on the Food Network. They will be doing cooking demonstrations, making Orange Blossom pancakes with Mascarpone and fresh berries (yum).The farmer’s market, featuring produce, flowers, baked goods and other local products, will be held in the Museum’s East Parking lot. The cooking demos will be in the garden of the Smart Home.

Screwed in this economy? Thinking about dusting off the old resume and looking for something more secure? Good news, job hunters! FedEx Office will print 25 copies of your resume for free today.

The Shedd Aquarium, as part of their Community Discount Days, is offering free admission for the rest of this week! From February 16th through the 20th, visitors get in to the main exhibit galleries free . Entrance to the Wild Reef exhibit (which is excellent, by the way) is available at a discounted rate. We're guessing that the Shedd might be trying to drive up their attendance, since the Oceanarium is closed until June of this year. In combination with the Art Institute letting visitors in for free every day in February, it’s a very good month for museum-goers on a budget.

Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevy dealerships are giving away free tickets to the Chicago Auto Show. All you have to do is fill out their online form, print the confirmation page, and visit a local dealership.

Now that the holiday season is here, it's time to start having some yule'n fun. The annual ZooLights festival returned yesterday to the Lincoln Park Zoo, providing plenty of fun for the family. Best of all? It's free. The festival features more than 1.5 million lights runs every weekend through December 14 and then is open nightly from December 15th through January 1st (except for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day). Featuring events for the whole family, like arts and crafts and tips for keeping warm in the winter, the annual festival is free to all and has even gone a bit greener this year by using LED lights this year. The LP Zoo is open each day from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. with ZooLight fun starting at 5 p.m. Be one of the first 1,000 visitors each night and receive a free pair of 3-D glasses to enhance the experience.

Virgin Atlantic is offering free flowers, cards, cab rides and movie tickets in honor of Valentine's Day. You can grab flowers or cards at the NBC Building, Ogilvie Building, Union Station and the LaSalle Metra Train Station between 3:30 and 7:30 tonight. For free movie tickets, you have to text VPORT312 to 51684, and it'll text you back a Fandango code. Word.

Chicagoist loves getting free stuff. Whether it's Free Cone Day, burritos, or bags of useless trinkets, we revel in all things gained sans payment. But, when a goodie bag containing condoms, a racy catalogue from Lover's Lane, an explicit CD, coupons for sexual favors and suntan lotion packets with marijuana leaves on them is given to a 12-year-old girl, the buck stops there. As was the case last weekend when Pam Richard took her three...

It's our 3rd Anniversary Party at Subterranean tonight! We are very, VERY excited to finally be past our twos! We are even more excited that this event is open to a broad swathe of our readers since it's open to everyone 18 and over. (And for those of you over 21, we're sure you're excited about the $2.50 pints of Goose Island available all night long.) We've spent the past few days talking to and...

We admit it. We like free stuff. Even if we don't like the radio station handing out free stickers after a show, we'll still take them. Likewise, we'll try any free sample at the grocery store, especially if it's liquor. It doesn't matter if it's good liquor or not — if it's free, we're trying it.

We’re less than a month away from Ctrl – Alt –Rock, version 2.0 (February 8 at Double Door) and we’re now convinced that we’ve assembled a lineup so powerful that all other rock bands have fled for the hills.

Chicagoist is positively overflowing with free stuff lately. And next on our list of giveaways is two tickets to the Hotel Cafe Tour.

Chicagoist loves animals. More specifically, we love our dogs (some of which can be seen here), so we were pumped today when we came across 2 dog events and one dog study all in the same day!

The details are falling into place for Chicagoist’s first live rock show, Ctrl – Alt – Rock. For those of you who will still be nursing broken hearts after Valentine’s Day, Chicagoist invites you to Schubas on February 16th for an evening with three of Chicago’s best local bands: The Assembly, May Or May Not, and Alphabet. They will warm both the cockles and sub-cockular regions of your cold, black heart. Just in case you...

Love your iPod but too lazy to import all your CDs into iTunes? Then this is the contest for you.

When Chicagoist gets free stuff sent to its offices, our first thought is always “Can I sell this on Ebay for beer money?” If the answer is no then our next thought is “Can we give this away to readers without violating federal postal regulations?” If the answer is yes, we give it away on the site.

We couldn't be more jazzed up for this weekend, with some of our favorite folks hosting events. Let's get this party started, fools.

Sometimes people give away awesome stuff on craigslist. Sometimes they give away toilets. But not the white one! The white one is $10.