🌱 Which Beverly shows are climbing the 2025 Chicago theatre awards?

Cheers Beverly! We’re back, helping you stay up to date with what’s happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• Which Beverly shows are climbing the 2025 Chicago theatre awards?
• How a Beverly bus stop helped launch a Chicago painter’s vision

Also on today's calendar: Dirty 30 Thursday's.

📸 Have a great pic of holiday decorations from around Beverly? Post it to Beverly photos of the day! ☃️ 🟢-🟠-🟣-🔴-🟡-🔵 ☃️

Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Abundant sunshine, with a high of 47 and low of 29 degrees.
• Wednesday: Areas of fog in the morning, temps: high: 46, low: 40.
• Thursday: Becoming windier; a.m. rain, with a high of 51 and low of 17 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!

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📰 News we're reading

• Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards; HAIRSPRAY Leads Best Musical! (broadwayworld.com) — Beverly’s own Beverly Theatre Guild and Beverly Arts Center are in the running for multiple 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, with “12 Angry Jurors” and “Hairspray” earning nods in choreography, direction, ensemble, and more. The standings highlight how neighborhood stages stack up against theaters across the Chicago region, and voting is still shaping which local productions come out on top in January.
   

• Mike Cloud by Erica Hunt (bombmagazine.org) — A Chicago painter recalls discovering art books at an old shop near 103rd and Western in Beverly, tying a familiar neighborhood intersection to the beginnings of his career. He and writer Erica Hunt dig into how color, collage, and even visible staples shape his unconventional paintings. Their conversation explores how art can feel collaborative, ambiguous, and a little unsettling.
   

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📸 Around Beverly

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Beverly

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday December 17

• Mrs. Claus! A Holiday Musical at the Beverly Arts Center
  Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W 111th St, Chicago
  10:30 am

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Other local events

Thursday December 18

• Dirty 30 Thursday's
  Creative Sippin , 11832 S Western Ave , Chicago
  6:30 pm

Saturday December 20

• Mrs. Claus! A Holiday Musical at the Beverly Arts Center
  Beverly Arts Center , 2407 W 111th St , Chicago
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• VBB VS BEARDSTOWN
  Liberty High School Liberty, IL 62347
  6:00 pm
• JHBB @ PAYSON
  Liberty High School Liberty, IL 62347
  6:00 pm
• JHBB vs Liberty
  Payson CUSD 1 Payson, IL 62360
  6:00 pm
• HSBB @Meredosia vs Triopia
  Payson CUSD 1 Payson, IL 62360
  6:00 pm

Wednesday December 17

• North Greene at Seymour
  Payson-Seymour High School , 420 W Brainard St , Payson
  6:00 pm

Thursday December 18

• 2025 Kerr Winter Auction - Mt. Sterling, Illinois
  Kerr Auction , 684 1000 N Ave , Mt Sterling
  9:00 am
• Adams County Democrats Monthly Meeting
  Quincy Public Library , 526 Jersey St , Quincy
  5:30 pm
• VGB @ ILLINI WEST
  Liberty High School Liberty, IL 62347
  6:00 pm
• JHBB VS PITTSFIELD
  Liberty High School Liberty, IL 62347
  6:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Quincy

• The Vespers Christmas Concert continues its songs of the season (wgem.com)
• School Closings & Delays Monday (khqa.com)
• Study finds breast cancer risks at younger age than people think (wgem.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don't know, but April May!
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