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Chicago Announces ‘Winter Design Challenge’ For Outdoor Dining
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has launched a contest encouraging Chicagoans to come up with solutions for winter outdoor dining.
CHICAGO (CBS) — For Chicago restaurants, providing enough safe seating for customers indoors and outdoors can be challenging enough in the time of COVID, even in the warmth of summer, so imagine how much bigger the challenge will get once winter arrives.
That’s why Mayor Lori Lightfoot has launched a contest encouraging Chicagoans to come up with solutions for winter outdoor dining, offering a $5,000 prize to winners in three categories: outdoor, standalone structures; indoor-adjacent spaces; and “cultural shifts making winter dining more appealing.”
