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Logo for Chicago's Best, featuring a red star on the left and the words 'CHICAGO'S BEST' in large white letters on a gray background. Text at the bottom right includes 'CHICAGO'S VERY OWN WGN 9'.
A man in a blue checkered suit stands in front of a colorful food truck advertising coffee and donuts. The truck features cartoon beavers holding donuts, with the text 'BEAVERS COFFEE + DONUTS' and 'Chicago's ORIGINAL Donut Truck' on the side.
Close-up of a donut with a blue birthday candle inserted, topped with chocolate syrup and crushed toppings, on a dessert with some colorful sprinkles.
A group of people gathered around a colorful food truck in an urban setting with tall buildings and bust statues in the background. The truck has a cartoon bear on it and is decorated in green and white.
A cardboard box lined with parchment paper contains several sugar-coated donuts. Behind the box, there is a paper bag with a colorful logo and illustration of two bears, likely from a bakery or donut shop.

Chicagos’s Best WGN TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WempfEc-T6g

How COVID flattened food trucks' tires

Chicago's restaurants are roaring back to life, with COVID-weary patrons vying for tables and crowding onto outdoor patios. But for one of the most entrepreneurial segments of Chicago's dining scene, food trucks, the pandemic-era funk drags on. That's because the lifeblood of the food truck business—hungry downtown office workers in search of a quick bite of a chicken tinga taco or an empanada on the go—are still largely working from home. And they're showing few signs of returning in 

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/chicago-food-trucks-hit-hardest-covid-19-lockdown

Finally, someone has created the donut milkshake

First cronuts, now this: a new Frankenstein donut dessert from Beavers Coffee and Donuts at their French Market shop and aboard their food truck. The mini donut shop has concocted a line of 16oz donut milkshakes that are customizable with sauces and toppings like Nutella, pecans, and coconut (it’s nice to see a donut shop that's open to experimentation, BASKIN-ROBBINS!). Here’s how they’re made:

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/chicago/west-loop/finally-someone-has-created-the-donut-milkshake

Donut guys challenge Evanston food truck law

The owners of a food truck filed suit today challenging Evanston’s rule that only owners of brick-and-mortar restaurants can operate food trucks in the city. Backed by the Liberty Justice Center, a Libertarian-oriented public-interest litigation group, the owners of Beaver’s Coffee and Donuts allege in their complaint, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, that the city ordinance violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the Illinois Constitution.

https://evanstonnow.com/donut-guys-challenge-evanston-food-truck-law/

Chicago French Market Adds Doughnut,
Barbecue Booths

Beavers Coffee + Donuts, a food truck that peddles hot-from-the-fryer mini-doughuts dressed with sweet toppings, will open its first stationary spot at the indoor marketplace at 131 N. Clinton the week of Jan. 21, said owner Gabriel Wiesen