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Oct. 24, 2024: Best Date News Volume #97

Welcome to Best Date News, your favorite Chicago weekly newsletter! Topics for today include Chicago’s Halloween Dog Party, winter snow predictions, replacing the Vitamin Vault Walgreens, Pretty Cool Ice Cream’s Halloween pop-up, an incredible $15 food deal and more!

Oct. 24: National Holidays

• National Kangaroo Awareness Day

• National Food Day

• National Take Back Your Time Day

• National Bologna Day

• National Jamaican Jerk Day

Chicago News

• Halloween Dog Party: This Saturday, Oct. 26 is the 37th Annual Streeterville Dog Halloween Party. If you like seeing dogs in funny costumes, this event is for you! Admission is free, but there is a suggested $10 donation to PAWS Chicago if you so choose. The event takes place at the Museum of Contemporary Arts from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. You must register your pet and leashes are required.

• Snow Predictions: According to the 2024-25 U.S. winter AccuWeather forecast, Chicago may be in store for more snow this winter compared to recent years. They are predicting that Chicago will get somewhere between 30-45 inches of snow this winter season, which would be up from the 22 inches last year. Similarly, they are predicting 25-35 total snow days compared to last year’s 17. People sounded off about the news on our post.

• Barnes & Noble: The beautiful Noel State Bank building in Wicker Park is finally opening again. You may recall that the former Walgreens store, with the iconic Vitamin Vault, closed at the beginning of 2023. The new tenant? Barnes & Noble. After being pushed back multiple times, their opening day is now finally set and scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 10 a.m.

• Kuma’s Corner: After seven years, Kuma’s Corner in Fulton Market is permanently closing. The restaurant chain is known for their heavy metal theme, loud music and thick burgers. With this closing, and the Chapter 11 bankruptcy, there will now only be three Kuma’s Corner restaurants left: the original one in Avondale, one in Schaumburg and one more in Indianapolis.

• Postponed Concerts: Two of the United Center’s biggest remaining concerts of the year have been postponed. Justin Timberlake just announced that his concert on Oct. 27 will be moved to Feb. 14 due to him being sick. Separately, Shakira has canceled her Dec. 14 concert in Chicago due to too much ticket demand. She is planning to move to stadiums beginning in May 2025.

Just For Fun

• Pretty Cool Scoops: This weekend only, Pretty Cool Ice Cream is dressing up for Halloween. They are turning their two ice cream pop shops into pop-up scoop shops on Oct. 26 & 27. There will be eight different flavors you can choose from at the Logan Square and Lincoln Park shops.

• $15 All You Can Eat: What if we told you there is a West Loop restaurant that is offering unlimited pizza, pasta and salad on Fridays for $15. Like you, we are a little suspicious that it sounds too good to be true. If it’s legit, it might just be the best deal in Chicago right now.

• Weekend Plans: Looking for things to do this weekend? Choose Chicago rounded up a variety of events and activities taking place including the Chicago International Film Festival, Fall Fest at Lincoln Park Zoo and more.

Poll Question of the Week

Halloween Weekend: With Halloween taking place on a Thursday this year, it has left people divided on which weekend is the better one to celebrate on. You don’t want to be the only one out at the bars in a costume after all…

Last Newsletter's Poll Results

Poll Results: Last newsletter we asked you if pasta was one of your three favorite foods and 82% of you said that it was. A few of your favorite pasta places were Topo Gigio, Daisies and RPM Italian.

Today's Sunset in Chicago

The sun will set in Chicago this evening at 5:54pm. This means the sun sets today 10 minutes earlier than it did last week.

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