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DOWNTOWN — Daley Plaza’s farmers market and food truck festivals are returning this month.
The Daley Plaza City Market, the city’s longest-running farmers market, opens Thursday with more than 30 weekly vendors. The market is 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 26 at the plaza, 50 W. Washington St.
Customers will be able to buy fresh produce, flowers, prepared foods and Chicago-made products.
Farmers market vendors:
- Fons Plant-Based Empanadas
- Black Girl Venture LLC
- Link Up/Experimental Station
- Sunshine Services
- Provos Bakery
- Not Just Cookies
- D + S Farms
- Lemaster Family Kitchen
- Twisted Olive
- Urban Canopy
- Just E Skincare
- Soap Junkii
- Smoking Globe Foods
- Delightful Pastries
- Parra Farms
- Artisan Bread Shoppe/Highrise Baking
- Danie’s Natural Juice Blends
- Fehr Bros. Farm
- K.V. Stover + Sons
- Mark Family Farms
- Misericordia Hearts + Flour Bakery
- Phoenix Bean
- Nichols Farm & Orchard
- Richard Oosterhoff & Son
- Cook County Farms
- Stamper Cheese Company
- Smits Farms
- Nuts to Go
- Baked Cheese Haus
- Aracely’s Bakery
- Meze Table
- Fruit Blend Smoothies
The plaza is also bringing back its weekly food truck festival. It will run 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Fridays May 19-Oct. 6.
The food truck lineup will rotate weekly and feature eateries from around the city, according to a news release from the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs.
“The purpose of the fest is to support small businesses, our food truck industry, while creating a lively and welcoming event for residents, workers and visitors in The Loop,” events commissioner Kenneth J. Meyer said in a statement.
The department will release the list of weekly vendors on its social media pages. You can follow it on Twitter and Facebook.
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