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June 27, 2024: Best Date News Volume #81
Welcome to Best Date News, your favorite Chicago weekly newsletter! Topics for today include our exclusive Zip ‘N Sip deal, The Bear Season 3, Legal Sea Foods, Sabrina Carpenter, McDonald’s dishing out deals, a massive sinkhole in Illinois and more!
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June 27: National Holidays
National Ice Cream Cake Day
National Handshake Day
National Sunglasses Day
National Bingo Day
National Bomb Pop Day
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The Coolest Adventure Park
The Forge Lemont: The Forge is an adventure park located in Lemont, IL (mapped in image below) that is home to the largest aerial ropes course in the world! At the top of one of the ropes courses they also have a zipline that takes you 1,000 feet over the rock quarry pictured above. If you are scared of heights, this isn’t for you. It’s high up!
Watch our video to see how awesome this place is! The package we are highlighting in the video is one they made exclusively for our followers called the Best Date Food Zip ‘N Sip, and it’s an insane deal!
You get to climb the 200+ obstacle ropes courses, zipline across the quarry and get a free drink of your choice at their waterfront bar all for just $65. It’s a $90+ value, saving you $25 per person.
The deal is so good that you won’t find it on their website. They don’t want non Best Date Food followers getting ahold of it. You can only access it through this special link. Hope you have a great time!
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Chicago News
The Bear: Yes, Chef! Season 3 of the popular Chicago-based TV show The Bear premiered on Hulu last night. Here is the Season 3 trailer if you want to get hyped, and here is an awesome video that takes you behind the scenes of some of the Chicago restaurants that have been featured in The Bear thus far.
Illinois Sinkhole: This one isn’t in Chicago, but it is an Illinois story that made national news. Yesterday, a massive sinkhole swallowed up part of a soccer field in the town of Alton, IL. You need to watch this video to see it for yourself. It almost doesn’t look real. Luckily nobody was injured or on the field when the collapse happened.
Street Closures: Thought driving in Chicago was difficult? It’s about to get a whole lot worse starting tonight. Major road closures will begin at 7pm this evening in preparation for the upcoming NASCAR Chicago street race on July 6-7. See which streets will shut down.
Legal Sea Foods: The long-awaited opening of the Boston-based Legal Sea Foods at Marina City Towers (taking over the Dick’s Last Resort space) is finally making progress towards opening. According to a press release, they will be opening in late July. The two-floor restaurant will have indoor and outdoor dining. Here is a glimpse of it.
Free Summer Concerts: Tuesdays on the Terrace just returned to Chicago this week! Every Tuesday from June 25 through Aug. 27, you can see a live outdoor concert for FREE on the back terrace of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. You are even allowed to bring your own picnic. See our video.
Just For Fun
McDonald’s: In an attempt to start winning back customers after complaints that it was getting too expensive, McDonald’s this week introduced the $5 meal deals shown above and announced Free Fries Fridays for the rest of 2024.
Chicago Bulls: The 2024 NBA Draft was last night and the Chicago Bulls had the 11th overall pick. The player they selected grew up just outside of Chicago in Hinsdale. See who it was.
Sabrina Carpenter: The Short n’ Sweet Tour will be stopping in Chicago this fall at the United Center on Sunday, Oct. 13. Tickets to see go on sale to the public tomorrow at 10am.
Poll Question of the Week
Are you going to watch The Bear Season 3? |
Poll Results: Last newsletter we asked you if you would book a flight on the new BARK Air that is coming to Chicago and 51% of you said no. The people who said no indicated it was too expensive.
Today's Sunset in Chicago
The sun will set in Chicago this evening at 8:29pm. Which means the sun sets today at the same time that it did last week! This remains our latest sunset of the year in Chicago!
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