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Dec. 19, 2024: Best Date News Volume #105
Welcome to Best Date News, your favorite Chicago weekly newsletter! Thank you for being a reader! In this week’s newsletter you will read about our big giveaway with the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry, the 2025 Chicago budget, Rate Field, MJ’s mansion and more!
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Dec. 19: National Holidays
National Hard Candy Day
National Emo Day
National Look for an Evergreen Day
National Re-Gifting Day
National Oatmeal Muffin Day
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Get in the Kitchen!
Wine & Social Club: Get In The Kitchen! in Lakeview is considered to be “Chicago’s party school of cooking classes.” And starting next month, they are launching their new Wine & Cooking Social Club. Take a look!
This social club is a monthly membership where you get to choose a unique cooking party experience every month with fun options to choose from like Cooking & Comedy, Dinner & Dancing Lessons, Cooking & Karaoke, Cooking & Drag Queens, Interactive Supper Club and more.
At every event, you are provided a bottle of their wine of month (white or red), and you learn how to cook a new meal from scratch. It’s a great way to learn how to cook in a low stress environment while making new friends and drinking wine.
Learn more about the Get In The Kitchen Wine & Cooking Social Club!
Chicago News
Griffin MSI Giveaway: One of Chicago’s best Christmas traditions is the Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light display at the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry. There is a four-story Grand Tree and over 50 smaller trees displaying cultures from around the world. And to take the celebration to the next level, we have teamed up with the museum to give away a coveted Explorer’s Membership worth $300! Don’t miss this giveaway!
2025 Chicago Budget: Chicago’s City Council narrowly passed (27-23) a $17.1 billion budget on Monday after weeks of debates and delays. You may recall that a month ago the original proposal, with a $300 million property tax increase, was unanimously rejected. So what does the new plan entail that Chicagoans will care about? Here’s what you need to know.
Rate Field: The White Sox made some news this week as they announced that their ballpark will be renamed for the coming 2025 season. To align with the new name of their sponsor, Guaranteed Rate Field will now be called Rate Field. This will be the fourth different name for the stadium since it opened in 1991. See what people had to say about the name change on our post.
Restaurant Closures: Pour one out for Old Town Pour House. The Wells Street restaurant announced yesterday that it will be closing on Jan. 5 after 13 years. Edzo’s Burger Shop in Evanston also just announced that they will be closing for good on Saturday after 15 years. Other Chicago restaurant closings.
Holiday Activities: Looking to get in the holiday spirit this weekend but aren’t sure what to do? Chicago has so many fun holiday activities to consider! Take a look at this list of potential ideas for this weekend.
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Just For Fun
MJ’s Mansion: From Air Max to Air Jordan! Nearly 11 years after it first hit the market, Michael Jordan’s nine bedroom, 19 bathroom, 32,683 square-foot mansion in Highland Park has finally sold. The original asking price was $29 million, but what it sold for is nowhere near that amount. Creep on the Zillow listing and price history.
Christmas in Chicago: If you are a fan of Hallmark-type Christmas movies, get excited because a new holiday rom-com just dropped that is based in Lincoln Square. Christmas in Chicago tells the story of a girl, living downtown, who meets a local alderman while riding the Brown Line.
CTA Gift Ideas: Who knew love stories start on the CTA?! Well if you know someone who does in fact love the ‘L’ in Chicago, this beautiful, live train tracker display looks incredible! It actually detects and tracks the bi-directional movement of the trains in real time. Prefer a sweater? The CTA has one that actually lights up…
2025 Headlines: Eater Chicago rounded up some local media members to come up with some predictions for restaurant industry headlines in 2025. See what predictions they have in store for 2025.
Poll Question of the Week
If you are staying local, will you be celebrating Christmas in the city or the Chicago suburbs this year? |
Poll Results: Last newsletter we asked if you had ever eaten at one of Chicago’s 19 Michelin star restaurants and 63% of you said that you have. The ones that most people had mentioned visiting before were Boka and Galit.
Sunrise & Sunset in Chicago
Here is today’s outlook in Chicago:
Sunrise: 7:14 a.m. (5 minutes later this week)
Sunset: 4:21 p.m. (2 minutes later this week)
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