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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sun-Times staff

Chicago shows off its ‘named’ snowplows

Gloria Pittman, deputy commissioner of the Department of Streets and Sanitation, poses Friday with “Salter Payton,” a snowplow named by a resident through a contest. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Seven snowplows named in a recent contest were unveiled Friday by the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation.

Residents who submitted the winning names in the inaugural “You Name a Snowplow Contest” got the chance to have their picture taken with the plow.

“I told my parents after I won, ‘You know, most people are naming kids. I’m naming a snowplow,’” winner Will Hager joked Friday outside the salt dome at Grand Avenue and Rockwell Street.

“The creativity of Chicago is on display today. And it’s nice to be here with the other winners.” 

The contest drew 17,000 responses and more than 80,000 votes were cast for the snowplow names.

The winning names were announced in February:

Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow 

Da Plow 

Salter Payton 

Sears Plower 

Sleet Home Chicago 

Holy Plow! 

Jean Baptiste Point du Shovel 

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