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June 1, 2023: Best Date News Volume #27
Good morning and welcome to another edition of Best Date News! Today we kick off the month of June and begin Chicago’s best three-month stretch of the year! The weather is great, there is a ton happening and it’s hard not to be happy!
In today’s newsletter, we dive into June’s free museum days, popular Illinois baby names, falcons attacking Chicago commuters, Pride Month in Chicago, Lori Lightfoot’s next career move, a new place to kayak with a limited-time deal and much more!
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June 1: National Holidays
National Nail Polish Day
National Go Barefoot Day
National Say Something Nice Day
National Pen Pal Day
National Game Show Day
With the month of June beginning today, we also wanted to give a shout to just some of the month long celebrations:
Pride Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Candy Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Rose Month
Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month
National Camping Month
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Top 5: Chicago News to Know
Goodbye Arlington Racetrack: The historic Arlington Park Racetrack will begin to be torn down this week by the new owners, the Chicago Bears. This is the first step towards beginning construction on their proposed $5 billion redevelopment project. Learn more about the Bears future home.
Reasons to Work from Home: A building at Wacker drive and Monroe Street in the Loop is currently being guarded by two peregrine falcons, and if you come to close, you might be the next Chicago commuter attacked by them.
Popular Illinois Baby Names: The lists are out! Want to know what baby names were the most popular in Illinois last year? Now you can thanks to the US Social Security Administration who ranked both the top 100 boy and girl names in order. See the list.
Happy Pride Month: Today is the beginning of pride month, and there are a ton of events happening in Chicago including drag brunches, bar crawls, festivals and more. Check out this list of things happening this month.
Lollapalooza Aftershows: Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10am for dozens of Lollapalooza aftershows at music venues across the city. Carly Rae Jepsen kicks things off on August 1. See the poster for who else is playing where.
Story of the Week
Museum Free Days: If you are looking to explore a museum during the month of June, consider doing it during a free day! Here are some of the big ones:
Museum of Science & Industry: June 1, 6 & 7
Art Institute of Chicago: June 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29
Field Museum: June 6, 13 & 19
Adler Planetarium: June 7, 14, 21 & 28
Chicago History Museum: June 18, 19, 25 & 28
Check out our Instagram video that gives you a glimpse of some of these spots and has some more helpful information in the caption.
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Quick Hitters
Barrington Hills Mansion: A mansion (shown above) located in the Chicago suburb of Barrington Hills that was made famous from the TV show “Empire” is being put up for auction. Want to buy it before it gets to auction? Here is the Zillow listing.
Dick’s Last Resort Replacement: The restaurant space in Marina City Towers (315 N Dearborn St) that has sat vacant for years since Dick’s Last Resort went out of business, finally has a new restaurant going in.
Cooper’s Hawk Chicago: And just as one new restaurant comes to Chicago, another one leaves. Cooper’s Hawk has announced they are shutting down their beautiful Gold Coast restaurant this summer (their sole Chicago location).
Via Erica Zazo/Block Club Chicago
Deal of the Week
Ping Tom Park Kayaks: After a three-year hiatus, REI reopened the Ping Tom Memorial Park Boathouse this past weekend. REI is partnering with the Park District to offer public kayak rentals and guided tours on the Chicago River.
Rentals cost $30 for a single kayak and $40 for a tandem kayak for the first hour and $15 for each additional hour. If you make an online reservation by June 6, you can use code “KAYAK23” to save 30%. Learn more.
Video of the Week
Chicago Dog: At Gene & Jude’s you will find one of Chicago’s most iconic hot dogs. They have been serving up their world famous French-fry topped hot dogs since 1946, and they claim to be Chicago’s best! Do you agree with them?
Poll of the Week
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a new gig. She will be teaching a Health Policy and Leadership course at Harvard in Boston this fall.
Would you take a class taught by Lori? |
Last Week's Poll Results
Poll Results: Last week we asked you if you preferred traditional printed menus or QR codes/online menus and 88% of you prefer the traditional physical menus.
Today's Sunset in Chicago
The sun will set in Chicago this evening at 8:18pm. Which means the sun sets today five minutes later than it did compared to last week.
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