Press Contact:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tristan Tucker, Basketball Communications and PR Manager<\/p>\n
Date:\u00a0\u00a0 \u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Tuesday, January 13, 2026<\/p>\n
(CHICAGO) \u2014 On Friday, January 16, 2026, at 12:00 p.m., elected officials, dignitaries, business leaders, community partners, and former professional athletes will join Governor JB Pritzker (invited), Mayor Brandon Johnson, Dwyane Wade, Chicago Sky Principal Owner Michael Alter, Chicago Sky Co-owner and Operating Chairman Nadia Rawlinson, Choose Chicago President & CEO Kristen Reynolds and Chicago Sports Commission Executive Director Kara Bachman at a host city launch event to celebrate the City of Chicago\u2019s selection as the host city for the 2026 AT&T WNBA All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n
What:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a02026 AT&T WNBA All-Star Weekend Host City Launch Event<\/p>\n
Who:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Governor JB Pritzker (invited), Mayor Brandon Johnson, Dwyane Wade, Chicago Sky principal owner Michael Alter, Chicago Sky co-owner and operating chairman Nadia Rawlinson, Choose Chicago President & CEO Kristen Reynolds, Chicago Sports Commission Executive Director Kara Bachman, elected officials, dignitaries, business leaders, community partners, and former professional athletes<\/p>\n
When:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Friday, January 16, 2026, at 12:00 pm CT<\/p>\n
Media requesting attendance at the launch event will need to request media credentials no later than 5:00 pm CT on Wednesday, January 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0167 Green<\/p>\n
*Sneakers or rubber-soled shoes ONLY*<\/p>\n
There will be no 1:1 media availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press Contact:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tristan Tucker, Basketball Communications and PR Manager Date:\u00a0\u00a0 \u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Tuesday, January 13, 2026 (CHICAGO) \u2014 On Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-414908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}