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🌱 City's Name A Snowplow Contest + Goose Island Beer Moving Locations

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Good morning! Thanks for checking out today's Chicago Daily. In your guide to local stories:

  • 📷 Police release photos of suspect in fatal shooting in front of a Pilsen school
  • ❄️ Chicago wants you to "Name a Snowplow"
  • 🍺 Goose Island Beer plans to relocate its brewpub

☁️ The weather:

Mostly cloudy. High: 29 Low: 26.

📰 Top 5 stories in Chicago:

1. New surveillance photos released of suspect in fatal shooting in front of Pilsen school. Chicago Police are looking for the person they believe is responsible for a shooting in front of Benito Juarez Community Academy on Friday that left two teenagers dead and two others wounded. Investigators believe the shooting may have been gang related. (CBS Chicago)

2. Study: Housing investors flock to Obama Presidential Center causing gentrification woes. Housing advocates have warned of gentrification in South Side neighborhoods spurred by the incoming Obama Presidential Center. A new study by the Illinois Answers Project found investors are flocking to the area at a higher rate than ever before. (ABC 7)

3. Chicago residents can name a snowplow for the city. Here's how. The city is holding its first-ever "You Name a Snowplow" contest, and wants residents to use their "ingenuity and imagination" to offer up names that give character to its snowplows. Six snow plows in all—one for each of Chicago's snow districts—will need named. (NBC Chicago)

4. Black-owned company behind Save A Lot overhaul taking over Englewood Whole Foods lease, but new grocer still unknown. Yellow Banana, which operates 38 stores under the Save A Lot name, will partner with an undisclosed grocery wholesaler to put "food on the shelves" in the old Whole Foods store in Englewood Square. (Block Club Chicago)

5. Goose Island to close original Clybourn location, move to Salt Shed. After more than three decades, Goose Island Beer Co. is leaving its original brewpub in Lincoln Park for a new location in the Salt Shed entertainment district. The new space will feature a riverside patio where customers can hear music from concerts at the Salt Shed. The company hopes to open the new location by the end of 2023. (Eater Chicago)

📌 Today in Chicago:
  • "The Holiday" at West Addison Branch Library (1:00 PM)
  • "A Christmas Story" at Edgewater Branch Library (2:00 PM)
  • 2nd Night, 2nd Light: Virtual Hanukkah Sing-Along virtual event (5:30 PM)
  • 93 Boyz Launch Party at The Silver Room (6:00 PM)
  • Chante Moore at City Winery (7:00 PM)
  • Plastic Love at Sleeping Village (7:00 PM)
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas with Chris White Trio & Choir at SPACE (7:30 PM)
  • Monday Night Open Jam: Tommy Carroll at Golden Dagger (8:00 PM)
  • Civic: Spiritual Awakenings at Chicago Symphony Orchestra (8:00 PM)
  • Joel Paterson & Friends at The Green Mill (8:00 PM)
  • Ryan Curtis with Cass Kwik at The California Clipper (8:30 PM)
  • Suffering at Punch House (9:00 PM)
  • Gag! at Berlin (10:00 PM)
  • Christian Dillingham Quartet at Jazz Showcase (10:00 PM)
  • Industry Mondays, Niick Niice - Cross - Des Fine - Hautewheels - Lisa Pizza at PRYSM (10:00 PM)

📱 Social chatter:

  • Chicago architecture: "Oooo....the drama in this photo! Love it. 😍 ⁠ 📸: @ernest_deo_photo" (Chicago Architecture Center via Instagram)
  • Wine and cheese bar: "Park Manor 75 will bring craft cocktails, mocktails and charcuterie boards to Chatham, the owners said." (Block Club Chicago via Facebook)
  • Winter Solstice: "While meteorological winter started along with December, the season doesn't officially begin until the winter solstice, which is just days away." (NBC Chicago)
  • Hanukkah kickoff: "More than 75 cars topped with bright menorahs joined a procession across Chicago, marking the start of eight nights of celebration and bearing witness to the community's strength, resilience and openness." (Chicago Sun-Times)

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See you all tomorrow for your next update.

— Nicole Cvetnic

About me: I'm a Midwesterner and very happy to call Chicagoland home. I love the outdoors—especially hiking—performing arts, photography, good food, travel and gardening. You can find me reading to my toddler, watching tv with my husband or cuddling with my special needs dog.

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