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🍺📷 @strictlywrigley
Good news, everyone. Alcohol WILL be available for purchase at Wrigley Field this season. Let’s hear it for due diligence! 👏🏼👍🏼🍻#Phewww #cheers (at Wrigley Field)
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Rise Sushi and Galleria Liquors to close in July, TOD construction to start late summer at 3401 N. Southport

As you may recall, this transit oriented development approved in 2015 with deliveries planned for Q1 2020. Planning had started back in 2014, and this new development will reside on what is now Galleria Liquors and Rise Sushi. At the time this development was first announced, Galleria Liquors is slated to return to this site, while Rise Sushi was not. Rise Sushi may relocate nearby (hopefully), and their sister restaurant, Shine on Webster in Lincoln Park will remain. You can read more about this development from Tom Tunney’s website, and see the listing here.

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Casper Mattress coming to 3420 N. Southport Avenue

After years of vacancy after Einstein Bagels closed their shop on Southport, and Paperchase pulled out of the US market, Casper Mattress is finally taking the long vacant space at 3420 N. Southport Avenue (and they are hiring).

Casper joins a list of Internet turned to brick and mortar shops along Southport Avenue, including Amazon Books, Warby Parker and Bonobos.  In addition to the upcoming Southport shop, Casper is located at Oak Brook Center and Chicago’s Fulton Market.

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📷 @ninainthechi
Ash Wednesday.
I came to love the ritual of mass when I studied abroad in college. Long, solemn services in Latin (which I do not know) or Italian (which I was just starting to get the hang of), cathedrals lit entirely by candles, surrounded by strangers whose families had sat in those exact pews for quite literally hundreds of years. There was this current to these Sunday mornings that made me feel at home in a place I had never been. I loved the Lenten season I spent in Italy and the one that overlapped with being baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal church several years later and I’m craving that same pull, that current of ritual in this season as well. Grateful to have started the preparation for resurrection around the corner from my house this morning. Across an ocean, around a corner, anywhere that pulls you home is sacred. (at St. Alphonsus)
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🧘‍♀️ 🛍 📷 @lululemonchi
Change can be scary, but good — so we’re saying “see you soon” to our current Southport store space, and moving to a temporary space at Southport and Roscoe beginning early next week. Stay tuned for official dates and details. Stop in this Thursday or Saturday for your last two chances to flow with us here or shop throughout the weekend before things start looking a little bit different. Link in bio or tap into our story for in-store class details. #thesweatlife (at lululemon)
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That’s Amore Florist Owner to Retire, Business Looking to be Sold

After 26 years on Southport, the owners of That’s Amore Florist are retiring and the business / storefront is for sale.  The “Business For Sale” sign went up this week, and is yet another small business up for sale and could potentially leave the Southport Corridor.  That’s Amore Florist is located at 3454 N. Southport Avenue, next to Krista K.