In this episode, Alyssa tells Risen about a Chicago Tradition known as Dibs.
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Show Notes:
- Chicago Tribune: Let’s make a federal case out of dibs
- Block Club Chicago: How Did Dibs Become A Thing? Thank Chicago’s Worst Blizzard
- WTTW: How Did Dibs Become a Chicago Winter Tradition?
- NBC 5 Chicago: Chicago’s long-standing ‘dibs’ tradition is technically illegal
- City of Chicago: Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation to Begin Clearing Streets of “Dibs”
- WBEZ: To Dibs Or Not To Dibs? The Essential Chicago Question
- Axios: Southwest Siders file the most dibs complaints
- ABC 7 Chicago: Chicago ‘dibs’: Items from wintertime parking spot tradition to be cleaned up
- Chicago Magazine: Should You Use Dibs?
- Chicago Sun-Times: Dibs calls always pour in to 311 after snow falls in
- Chicago, from some areas more than others
- Block Club Chicago: The History of ‘Dibs’: Did It Begin in Chicago?
- Chicago Reader: Land GrabDNA Info: ‘Dibs Shame’ Campaign Raising Funds To End the ‘Societal Plague’
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