Chicago Brewery patios and outdoor restaurant spaces can reopen this week — here’s a quick roundup of some of the places we’ve found open now or soon:

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As of today, suburban brewery patios throughout Chicagoland can open for business. Where to go first? We’ve hunted some down for your weekend visit:

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According to various sources, we’ve learned that staff was informed recently that the Three Floyds Brewpub has closed, with no plans to reopen.

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The TTB-approved labels for May 2020 include new beers from Rabid Brewing, Hop Butcher, Roaring Table and others (and not a lot of keg rings either).

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The Illinois Craft Brewers Guild announced the Passport At Home program to get more people into the state’s breweries — and you can win more beer!

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Holy crap — we didn’t ever think we’d see the day where store shelves would hold any beers from Metropolitan in cans…let alone five different options.

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Here’s a silver lining to all this — bottleshops and bars are turning to tiny crowlers to move their draft beer, and consumers are the winners.

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We’ve seen a lot of places getting creative with how to get draft beer out the door in a trying time, but these BCS Kids Cups are definitely out there.

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Five breweries and bottleshops in the south suburbs have banded together to help get through the pandemic with this new Support Each Other program:

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Hunker down and stay in place — we’ve got some quarantine drinking to do. What have we been sipping on? Read on, friends:

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