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🤐 Why is Elon Musk spreading rumors about Chicago?
September 6, 2024 · —Sidney Madden
What are your weekend plans? Eating your way through the Taste? Tailgating ahead of the Bears home opener? Going to Block Club’s block party? You know we have all the ideas in our Friday edition of Hey Chicago.
What's CITY Talking About?
Debunking Woodlawn Migrant Rumor
No migrants were trespassing in Woodlawn this week, officials cleared up after Elon Musk and others spread claims that dozens of asylum-seekers with guns and motorcycles were taking over a South Side apartment. [City Cast Chicago 🎧]
Save A Lot Opens in West Garfield Park
The new West Side grocery store opened Thursday amid owner Yellow Banana’s legal challenges and massive debt. The city cut a $13.5 million deal with Yellow Banana to open grocery stores on the city’s South and West sides by the spring. [Sun-Times]
- When Aldi closed a few years ago and Save A Lot temporarily closed, West Garfield Park residents were left with few options. [City Cast Chicago 🎧]
New Bites at the Taste of Chicago
The Grant Park food fest will serve brisket from Soul & Smoke, fried chicken from Uncle Remus, and more. [Axios]
This Week’s Must-See
Does the Superdawg roof look a little empty without the flirty 12-foot hot dogs? Maurie and Flaurie will return to the Norwood Park restaurant soon after a little sprucing up. [X]
Your Chicago News Quiz
Can you guess what Chicago attraction got this negative review? As always, our weekly news quizzes are open-book tests. Reference past newsletters and City Cast Chicago podcasts!
I walk past this atrocity multiple times daily and I curse the heavens with each trip. I loathe this fountain. I see groups of people stopping to laugh at it and take pictures with it, and I can’t help but wonder what joke I’m missing out on.
Which Chicago fountain is this Yelper talking about?
- Crown Fountain
- Shit Fountain
- Buckingham Fountain
- Fountain of Time
What To Do
Friday, Sep. 6
- Hull-House Books opens 📖 Little Italy | 10 a.m. | Free
- Taste of Chicago starts 🍽️ Grant Park | 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. | Free entry
- Illinois Women in Cannabis 💼 Harold Washington Library | Noon to 1 p.m. | Free
- “Chicagoland Movie Palaces” Exhibit opens 🎞️ Elmhurst | 1–5 p.m. | Free
- Beer & Vegan Fish Fry 🐟 Back of the Yards | 4–11 p.m. | Varies
- Selena Tribute Concert 🎤 Millennium Park | 6 p.m. | Free
- “Walk With Me” Opening 🖼️ Pilsen | 6–10 p.m. | Free
- Afrobeats to the World 🎶 Bucktown | 9 p.m. | $20+
Saturday, Sep. 7
- PAWS Chicago 5K 🐾 Montrose Harbor | 7:30–11 a.m. | $45
- Major Taylor Annual Ride 🚲 Dan Ryan Woods | 8 a.m. | Free with code “MTTKCFOTMTT”
- 79th Street Renaissance Festival 🎉 Auburn Gresham | 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. | Free
- Chappell Roan Drag Brunch 👑 The Loop | 11 a.m., 2 p.m. | $20
- Chicago Ceramics Crawl 🏺 Citywide | 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Free
- Taco Fest starts 🌮 Lakeview | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. | $10 suggested donation
- Folk Festival starts 🎸 Evanston | 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. | $60
- Migrating Monarchs Celebration 🦋 River Forest | Noon to 3 p.m. | Free
- Fiestas Patrias starts 🤠 Aurora | 3:30 p.m. | $20
- Block Club Block Party 🎉 Logan Square | Noon to 8 p.m. | Free entry
- Out in the Park 🎢 Six Flags | 8 p.m. to Midnight | $46+
Sunday, Sep. 8
- Toddler Hiking Club 👪 West Ridge | 10 a.m. | Free
- Beauty & Barber Battle ✂️ Englewood | 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. | $20+
- Nerd Picnic Meetup 🤓 Diversey Harbor | 1–4 p.m. | Free
- Silent Book Club 🤫 Ukrainian Village | 6–11 p.m. | Free
New York Fashion Week is underway, and one Chicagoan we might see by the runways? Celebrity stylist and self-dubbed image architect Law Roach ✨ He’s speaking in Pilsen later this month on how to build a fashion icon.
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