Deals we can’t resist.
Want to buy your kid his or her first acoustic guitar? Skip the froufrou toy shops that charge $50-$75 for an non-playable, non-tunable tchotchke. Midwest Buy & Sell (6019 W. Irving Park Rd.; 773-545-2020) carries a great-sounding Oscar Schmidt guitar for just $100.
— Louis R. Carlozo
World Market sells chocolate bars with cacao counts from 42 percent to 99 percent for a deliciously reasonable $1.99. At that price, grab a couple of sea salt chocolate and pomegranate chocolate bars too. You won’t regret it. (Or maybe you will, once you realize you can’t live without them. Sorry about that.)
— Heidi Stevens
When was the last time someone handed you the equivalent of a crisp $10 bill? Visit any of city’s the Akira locations and if you ask nice, they’ll give you a $10 gift certificate (while supplies last) good at Akira for Men (1910 W. North Ave.; 312-423-6693). Use it on denim, footwear and menswear items spanning more than three dozen brands.
— Louis R. Carlozo
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