Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Friday, March 11, 2016. Have a great weekend!
Minnesota Vikings ask to rename Minneapolis’s Chicago Avenue
The Minnesota Vikings are building a new $1.1 billion stadium in downtown Minneapolis, but there’s a problem: the street next to the state-of-the-art stadium is Chicago Avenue, which the football team strongly objects to because of the rival Chicago Bears. They’ve even asked the city’s planning commission to rename the part of Chicago Avenue previously known as Kirby Puckett Place “Vikings Way” [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
