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Chicago Dating Trends Reveal Chicagoans Love Booze, Board Games, Big Star And Tapas

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jan 10, 2013 7:00PM

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Big Star in its early days. (Photo credit: Jeramey Jannene)

The dating website How About We, which brings singles together over shared interests and activities, recently set up its one millionth date, so they marked the occasion by sharing information on the most popular dates in cities across the country. ("How about we ... celebrate our successful business model?")

The numbers for Chicago reveal some slightly surprising numbers. The unsurprising graphic? Chicagoans love to drink on dates. 38.6 percent of singles who used How About We preferred to drink wine on a date, followed closely by beer drinkers at 35.3 percent.

The most popular date spots are Millennium Park, The Art Institute, Big Star ("How about we ... wait in line for up to 90 minutes for tacos and whiskey?"), Shedd Aquarium and ... Blue Agave Tequila Bar. (Really? Jesus, we're old.)

Playing board games topped the favorite activities; we're going to get some mileage out of our Apples to Apples deck this year. That was followed by bowling, biking, running and going to the beach.

The poll that slightly surprised us was the top food for a date. Tapas claimed the top spot, followed by frozen yogurt and pizza. this being Chicago we wonder if some How About We users considered pizza as a form of tapas.

Bacon, sadly, did not make the list.