{"id":170194,"date":"2025-08-23T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170194\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:27:09","slug":"bald-off-competition-set-to-take-place-in-chicago-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170194\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald-off competition set to take place in Chicago \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/who-won-the-jeremy-allen-white-lookalike-contest-in-chicago-see-the-top-pick\/3603584\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Allen White<\/a> and Joe Keery lookalike contests of 2024, a competition just for those bearing a resemblance closer to Pitbull or Cynthia Erivo is set to take place in Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>Videos advertising the &#8220;inaugural Chicago bald-off&#8221; have gained traction on social media in recent weeks, touting a competition hunting for &#8220;Chicago&#8217;s baddest baldie&#8221; and &#8220;Chicago&#8217;s baldest baddie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The competition is set to take place at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24. <\/p>\n<p>Flyers for the event list the coordinates 41.93908, -87.63416 as the location, which maps to the Keith Haring &#8220;Self-Portrait&#8221; statue of a green man in the AIDS Garden on Chicago&#8217;s lakefront near Lakeview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a drill. This is a COMPETITION,&#8221; the flyer says. &#8220;Please come correct.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>People expressed excitement for the pop-up competition on social media videos advertising the event. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shaving my head for this IM READY,&#8221; one TikTok user commented on a video advertising the event. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bringing my dad,&#8221; another user wrote. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Jeremy Allen White and Joe Keery lookalike contests of 2024, a competition just for those bearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,12353],"class_list":{"0":"post-170194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-lakeview"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115080438969268504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}