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Tamale Guy 2018 W Chicago Ave Chicago


Claudio Velez lovingly known as "The Tamale Guy" by locals, Velez used to sling corn-husk-wrapped handhelds from a red cooler at the city's best dive bars. Now he's got his own brick-and-mortar restaurant in West Town so that you can get your tamale fix day or night. Choose from fan-favorite fillings like pork, chicken or queso con rajas and toss in some merch while you're at it. If you close your eyes, you might just transport yourself back to a sticky dive bar at last call.

www.tamaleguychicago.com

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Originally Posted by homoe

Tamale Guy 2018 W Chicago Ave Chicago


Claudio Velez lovingly known as "The Tamale Guy" by locals, Velez used to sling corn-husk-wrapped handhelds from a red cooler at the city's best dive bars. Now he's got his own brick-and-mortar restaurant in West Town so that you can get your tamale fix day or night. Choose from fan-favorite fillings like pork, chicken or queso con rajas and toss in some merch while you're at it. If you close your eyes, you might just transport yourself back to a sticky dive bar at last call.

www.tamaleguychicago.com

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As many times as I have been to Chicago, how I missed this place is beyond me!

I contacted them recently to see if they did mail order shipping! Unforturnely they don't.......

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Racine Kringle 2529 Golf Ave Racine, WI

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago non-essential businesses like bars, restaurants and liquor stores are actually getting extended hours under the new state-imposed COVID-19 mitigations that start Friday. The city first announced new restrictions last week to combat the COVID-19 surge seen here and across the state. Those restrictions included shuttering all indoor service at bars without food service, all liquor sales ending at 9 p.m. and all non-essential businesses closing from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

However, under Governor JB Pritzker's mitigations, the city is extending those hours. While all bars and restaurants, regardless of food service, are not allowed to operate indoor dining, all non-essential businesses now must be closed from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. That allows restaurants and bars that can no longer offer that indoor service an extra hour of outdoor operations each evening.

The city is also modifying its liquor curfew to allow on-site or to-go alcohol sales at bars and restaurants until 11 p.m. Some bar and restaurant owners have said they feel unfairly targeted by the city and state's COVID-19 mitigation efforts, and are demanding to see proof from the state that they're causing the surge in coronavirus cases we're seeing.

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Effective Friday, November 13, 2020, the Emergency Travel Order has been modified. Under the new system, states will be placed in three categories – red, orange and yellow – based on the status of the outbreak in the states and how the data compares to the situation in Chicago.

Updated as of 11/10/2020

In response to increased and high rates of COVID-19 transmission across the United States, and to add to Chicago’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, the City is issuing a Travel Order applicable to anyone coming into the City of Chicago from designated states with a significant degree of community-wide spread of COVID-19. Anyone traveling from a state on the Orange list is directed to obtain a negative COVID-19 test result no more than 72 hours prior to arrival in Chicago or quarantine for a 14-day period (or the duration of their time in Chicago, whichever is shorter). Anyone traveling from a state on the Red list must quarantine for a 14-day period or the duration of their time in Chicago, whichever is shorter.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...vel-order.html

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Chicago, Cook County COVID-19 stay-home advisories..

The Chicago advisory says residents should “only leave home to go to work or school, or for essential needs such as seeking medical care, going to the grocery store or pharmacy, picking up food, or receiving deliveries.” Cook County notes leaving home for a COVID-19 test also is OK. Anyone leaving home is advised to “always wear a face covering." A statewide mask mandate also is in effect, requiring people to wear face coverings in public when they can’t maintain 6 feet of distance and in any building open to the public.

In its order, Chicago emphasizes that city officials expect to be cracking down on businesses, including enforcing capacity limits at grocery stores and other retail stores and indoor dining and drinking. But the city also emphasized officials will be keeping an eye out and possibly issuing citations for at-home gatherings, places of worship, retail stores, salons and barber shops, theaters and health and fitness centers that violate current restrictions.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coron...rx4-story.html

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Originally Posted by homoe

Tamale Guy 2018 W Chicago Ave Chicago


Claudio Velez lovingly known as "The Tamale Guy" by locals, Velez used to sling corn-husk-wrapped handhelds from a red cooler at the city's best dive bars. Now he's got his own brick-and-mortar restaurant in West Town so that you can get your tamale fix day or night. Choose from fan-favorite fillings like pork, chicken or queso con rajas and toss in some merch while you're at it. If you close your eyes, you might just transport yourself back to a sticky dive bar at last call.

www.tamaleguychicago.com

This is no more sorry to say.

He now operates out of the kitchen at Lone Wolf, 806 W Randolph. (Green St & Halsted St West Loop, Near West Side).

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https://chicago.eater.com/2021/9/2/2...ian-bar-owners

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The 2021 Chicago Pride Parade has been canceled again

The parade, which was originally postponed to October 3, will return next June. As of right now, there’s no word on whether Chicago Pride Fest—the two-day celebration that typically coincides with the parade, which was also pushed to October—will continue this year.

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Chicago Avant-Garde is open at the Newberry Library. Newberry Library 60 W Walton St. Chicago IL from September 10 – December 30, 2021. Admission is free and open to all.

Chicago Avant-Garde puts the spotlight on Chicago as a site of historic, boundary-pushing experimentation in art, literature, and dance. At the center of the exhibition are five women whose lives and careers embodied a uniquely Chicago style of radical creativity in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s: artist Gertrude Abercrombie, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, dancers Katherine Dunham and Ruth Page, and curator Katharine Kuh.

Visitors to the exhibition will encounter a range of artifacts and archival materials, including paintings, sketches, photographs, posters, dance costumes, and rare video footage.

Plan Your Visit
The galleries are open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm.
A face mask is required, regardless of vaccination status.
No appointments or tickets necessary. Newberry exhibitions are free and open to all. When you arrive, please sign in with us in the lobby.

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DuSable Museum of African American History 740 E 56th Pl Chicago
(within Washington George) Park)

Kara Walker. Exhibition through October 16, 2021.


For other events scheduled for this fall check....

https://www.dusablemuseum.org/event/

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Chicago was just voted the 2nd most beautiful city in the world! Written by Emma KruppThursday September 9 2021.

Chicago was just ranked the second most beautiful city in the world (and the first in North America) by 27,000 Time Out Index survey voters from across the globe.

How do we know this, you ask? A whopping 79 percent of voters—a percentage second only to Prague—deemed the city beautiful, beating out famously gorgeous spots like Paris (which ranked third), Amsterdam and Vienna. Chicago doesn't ordinarily get a lot of attention for its beauty, but the ranking makes sense when you consider our abundance of public parkland, stunning architecture and famously clean streets (thanks alleys!), plus our proximity to the glittering shores of Lake Michigan. For proof, look no further than beautiful gardens tucked away in Jackson Park and the South Shore Cultural Center, or the many lovely vantage points to check out views of the skyline or even our most stunning restaurant spaces. It's like our adopted hometown architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said: "Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

But wait, there's more! Time Out Index survey respondents also voted Chicago the second most fun city in the world and the second best city for "community spirit" over the past year (Tel Aviv and Manchester were the first-place winners in those categories, respectively). We were also deemed the third friendliest city—perhaps unsurprising, given our status as a Midwestern metropolis—and an especially good spot for eating and drinking, according to 82 percent of respondents.

https://www.timeout.com/things-to-do...s-in-the-world

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Originally Posted by homoe

This is no more sorry to say.

He now operates out of the kitchen at Lone Wolf, 806 W Randolph. (Green St & Halsted St West Loop, Near West Side).

Tamale Guy now operates out of Bangers & Lace kitchen. 1670 W Division St, Chicago.

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Latin Restaurant Weeks land in Chicago at last

Chicago’s first Latin Restaurant Weeks are here, beginning on Monday, October 4, and going through Monday, October 18.

Latino and Caribbean restaurants, including Taqueria Chingón, Tacotlan, and Birrieria Ocotlan, will offer prix fixe menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and Osito’s Tap will serve specialty cocktails for $10.

Latin Restaurant Weeks began in Houston and expanded to Miami before coming to Chicago.

https://chicago.eater.com/2021/9/29/...-milagro-obama

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Immersive Van Gogh Lighthouse ArtSpace (Old Town) Until Sunday November 28 2021.

Step inside of Starry Night and The Bedroom in Arles with the help of more than 50 digital projectors in this high-tech exhibition that explores the work of Vincent Van Gogh. Designed by the Italian creative team that worked on the "Atelier des Lumières" exhibitions in Paris, "Immersive Van Gogh" covers 35-foot walls with animated versions of the Dutch painters work, accompanied by a score that blends electronic and classical compositions.


Event website:https://www.vangoghchicago.com/

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Faux ’50s Diner Ed Debevic’s Is Back (so is the chrome, neon, and theatrically rude servers). 159 E. Ohio St.

Ed Debevic’s, the famously raucous retro diner starring singing, dancing waitstaff, returned to Chicago last week, six years after its original restaurant was demolished in River North. Now located in Streeterville and owned by Bravo Restaurants, the new Ed’s still features diner food served by theatrically rude waiters in a shiny faux-’50s setting with lots of chrome, neon, and sassy signage.

The menu revives many of the classics from the old days, including chili, Ed’s Mom’s Meatloaf Sandwich, and the World’s Smallest Sundae, but it makes a few concessions to the 21st century, namely an Impossible burger. The servers still dress in vintage splendor with buzz cuts, Buddy Holly glasses, and coonskin caps, but times being what they are, they’re less touchy-feely than in days of yore, and instead of dancing on the tables, they’re encouraged to use special ledges and a runway that extends the length of the main dining room.