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Your Best Mustache Has Plans at Pippin’s Today

Official venue photograph of patrons seated at the bar inside Pippin’s Tavern; not a photograph of today’s Ditka lookalike contest.

Your aviators finally have a Sunday assignment. Pippin’s Tavern is gathering Ditka lookalikes for a Bears watch party, with the audience choosing the winner at halftime.

A Day for Da Coach
Where: Pippin’s Tavern, 39 E. Chicago Ave.
When: Sunday, October 18; contestants arrive 11 a.m.–noon, with judging at halftime
Drink specials: $3 domestic drafts and $10 build-your-own Bloody Marys, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
Event information: Pippin’s Ditka contest

The winner gets a pitcher of beer, a cigar and, inevitably, something to bring up at every future Bears game.