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Sam Glavas and Joe Frantik were excited last year when they became Chicago Bulls season ticket holders for the first time.
But that excitement, like the rest of the state, was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic and the statewide lockdown, which kicked in just two weeks after they bought those tickets.
“We were only able to go to some like family-intro event [for season ticket holders] and that was like it,” Glavas said. “So this whole time we’ve been seeing other markets getting games back and when we were able to finally get games back here, and we were like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s go.’”