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June 20, 2024: Best Date News Volume #80
Welcome to Best Date News, your favorite Chicago weekly newsletter! Topics for today include The Bean’s reopening, Price Street Pizza coming to Chicago, the Summer Solstice, Bark Air, a Love Island pop-up, $1 smoothies and more! Have a great first day of summer, Chicago!
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June 20: National Holidays
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
National American Eagle Day
National Seashell Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
International Tennis Day
World Tapas Day
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Must-Visit Summer Spot
Hideaway Brew Garden: We recently visited one of the coolest spots in the Chicagoland area, and you need to add it to your list of places to visit this summer! Hideaway Brew Garden is an outdoor entertainment venue in Hoffman Estates that has all sorts of events including weekly concerts, movie nights and different festivals!
It’s open Thursday-Sunday, and you are able to enter for free! They have food and drinks available for purchase that can be enjoyed at their picnic tables, rentable group spaces or at your own lawn setup! And yes, you are allowed to bring both your dogs and your children.
Check out the full list of events happening this summer because they have a lot of fun things happening!
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Chicago News
The Bean: After almost a year of construction, Chicago’s iconic sculpture is set to reopen by the end of June as a new timetable for The Bean’s reopening was shared by the city. You may recall that The Bean was closed during August of last year as they began renovating the area surrounding The Bean.
Prince St. Pizza: Another New York restaurant is coming to Chicago. The famous Prince Street Pizza from New York City is set to open its first ever Chicago location this fall. Originally founded in 2012, the restaurant has now become nationally known for its signature Sicilian pies, especially the square pepperoni slices. See which Chicago neighborhood Prince Street Pizza is coming to.
Summer Solstice: It’s the longest day of the year in Chicago! Today is known as the 2024 summer solstice and the astronomical start to summer. This year’s summer solstice is actually historic because it’s the earliest occurrence in more than 200 years. Learn more and see how many hours of sunlight we are getting today.
Bark Air: If you like to bring your dog with you on trips, we have great news for you. A luxury, dog-focused airline is officially coming to Chicago’s Midway Airport this fall. The company is called BARK Air, and flights are now available for purchase. You have to watch this one-minute video that talks all about it.
Safe Suburbs: A suburb of Chicago was just named the “safest and most affordable” city in the entire United States according to a new list that ranked the top 50 cities in the country. Joliet made the national rankings list at spot number 17, but see which Illinois town came in at number one overall.
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Just For Fun
$1 Smoothies: Tomorrow (June 21) is National Smoothie Day! Considering it’s going to be in the 80s, consider taking advantage of Jamba Juice’s deal: $1 smoothies at four Chicagoland locations.
Love Island: Want to be on the TV show Love Island? Here’s your chance! Peacock’s Love Island USA is bringing the Love Island villa, and cast members from the show, to Chicago this weekend for a one-day pop-up experience on Wells Street in Old Town. Good luck!
Pride House: After not initially going up on June 1, Andersonville’s famous Pride House is now back! If you haven’t seen the massive two-story rainbow paintbrush, you have to take a look.
Poll Question of the Week
Would you book a flight on the new BARK Air that is coming to Chicago?Tell us why or why not with your vote! |
Poll Results: Last newsletter we asked you if you thought the Rave Train sounded like a fun experience and 67% of you said that you did not. As it turns out, the CTA decided to shutdown the event a couple days before. Some of your submitted comments from last week from our poll question:
“Sounds like a cool one time experience except I would never pay $75 for it”
“I would absolutely love this 🤩 I’d fly out from London UK just to attend!”
“This sounds like a blast and I would participate in a minute as long as the cars weren't packed so full that my claustrophobia kicks in!”
“Have a party AND cruise through my favorite city? Count me in!”
“The trains are smelly and gross and I don’t want to spend any more time on there than I need to”
Today's Sunset in Chicago
The sun will set in Chicago this evening at 8:29pm. Which means the sun sets today three minutes later than it did last week! This is officially our latest sunset of the year in Chicago!
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