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July 20, 2023: Best Date News Volume #34
Good morning and welcome to another edition of Best Date News! In today’s newsletter, we dive into music, sports and entertainment around Chicago! Beyoncé is in Chicago this weekend for her Renaissance Tour, the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup begins today, Navy Pier celebrated its 107th birthday with a drone show and tomorrow just might be the biggest day at the movie theater in years! And last but not least, check out our exciting giveaway below!
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July 20: National Holidays
National Lollipop Day
National Fortune Cookie Day
World Jump Day
International Chess Day
National Moon Day
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Top 5: Chicago News to Know
World Cup: The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup begins today! Team USA has their first game tomorrow at 8pm where they will face off against Vietnam. The starting goalkeeper for Team USA plays for the Chicago Red Stars! See the World Cup players with Illinois connections.
Beyoncé: Queen B is bringing her Renaissance Tour to Soldier Field in Chicago this Saturday and Sunday. The city is getting excited with a bunch of different Beyoncé-themed parties in celebration. Check out the places that are celebrating Beyoncé this weekend.
Pet Influencers: The most influential pets in the world are headed to Chicago this weekend for PetCon, a pet influencer convention that bring together celebrity pets, brands, fans and more. Do you think that your pet would fit in?
Drone Show: Did you know that Chicago had a drone show over Navy Pier last Saturday, prior to the fireworks, to celebrate Navy Pier’s 107th birthday? We found out last minute and ran over to take some videos. It was surprisingly difficult to see the 300 drones unless you were on a boat, but we did our best. Check out the highlights.
Bike Riding: Chicago was ranked the third worst big city in the world (out of 163 big cities) for bike-ability in 2023 according to a report by PeopleForBikes. On the other hand, Milwaukee, WI made the list of top 10 cities. Learn more about Chicago’s ranking.
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Quick Hitters
Illinois State Fair: The State Fair is coming up in just a few weeks and the list of headliners just got announced. Some of them include Nelly, Tim McGraw, Maren Morris, REO Speedwagon and more. Take a look at the full lineup.
Travel and Leisure: A new “best cities” in the United States list came out recently from Travel + Leisure and Chicago ranked highly. The top 15 made the cut. See where Chicago ranked.
Ping Tom Kayaking: A while back we alerted you that kayaking was back up and running at Ping Tom Park after a three-year hiatus. We went and had a great time. Take a look!
Kennedy Expressway: New traffic patterns began this week on the Kennedy Expressway with one inbound mainline lane remaining open now at all times. See the full details.
Thread of the Week
Friday Face-off: View the thread by clicking the image or here! And vote below for which of these two movies you’d rather see!
Deal of the Week
Giveaway Time: You may have seen us post about it on Instagram, but the Faces of Fitness festival is coming to Chicago on July 29! It’s essentially the Lollapalooza of fitness, as you can see from the above schedule.
You can take different classes based on your interests at different stages during the one day fitness event. The event is already sold out, but we have some one-day passes that we want to give away for FREE to a few of our loyal newsletter subscribers!
Simply reply to this email with the session (from the above schedule) that you would most want to attend by 7pm on Sunday, July 23. From the people who submit their response in time, we will randomly choose a few lucky winners to receive two passes each! We will alert the winners via email on July 23. Good luck!
Poll of the Week
Two of the most anticipated movies of the year come out tomorrow! Which one would you rather see? |
Last Week's Poll Results
Poll Results: Last week we asked you if your loyalty is to Coke or Pepsi. 68% of you prefer Coke while 32% of you prefer Pepsi.
Today's Sunset in Chicago
The sun will set in Chicago this evening at 8:20pm. Which means the sun sets today five minutes earlier than it did compared to last week.
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