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David Kaplan Book Signing Event

Attention, sports fans! Chicago’s favorite sportscaster is coming to Chicago’s favorite store with his new book about Chicago’s favorite baseball team. David Kaplan—of ESPN Radio’s Kap and Co. and NBC Sports Chicago’s Sports Talk Live—will be stopping by Abt on December 2nd for an exclusive book signing event. His book, The Plan, chronicles the complicated efforts undertaken by Theo Epstein and the rest of the Chicago Cubs’ management to turn the MLB’s most lovable losers into…

Abt Exclusive April 10, 2017

Happy Cubs Home Opener!

The only thing better than your team’s home opener is a home opener as reigning world champions. We’d all love to be down at the Friendly Confines this evening to see our boys in blue kick some butt tonight, but someone’s gotta keep the store running. So, instead, we might just fire up our Cubs Weber Q portable grill, cook up some burgers, and throw the game on in the Dave Abt Theater.…

Abt Exclusive November 3, 2016

Congratulations to the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs!

In the spring of 1936, a little radio store called Abt TV opened at Milwaukee and Wofram in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. A couple neighborhoods to the east, one of the founding teams of the National League was in the beginning of what looked like it would be a middling season. The Chicago Cubs would go on to tie with the St. Louis Cardinals for second place in the National League. Nine…

Learning Center June 14, 2010

Thanks for coming, Randy Wells!

Abt would like to thank Randy Wells for coming to support the LifeSource blood drive today. -Kelly B.…

Events Learning Center June 14, 2010

Meet a Chicago Cub today at Abt!

Straight off the heels of a Cubs win against the Sox yesterday, Chicago Cub pitcher Randy Wells will be at Abt for a good cause. He is going to hand out 150 autographed Cubs baseballs and support blood donors from 2-4pm. If you can’t make it between 2 and 4, or you’re a Sox fan, LifeSource will be on site from 11 to 6pm, so come out and donate today. All donors…

Events Learning Center June 11, 2010

Donate Blood and Meet a Chicago Cub!

Chicago Cub, Randy Wells, will be at Abt for a blood drive this Monday, June 14th. LifeSource and Abt are coming together for a good cause and one of Chicago’s boys in blue will be here to raise awareness on the need for blood donations! LifeSource will be drawing blood from 11am through 6pm in Abt’s parking lot. Randy Wells will be here from 2-4pm . The first 150 people who donate…