The Department of Streets and Sanitation (DSS) announced the City’s second annual ‘You Name A Snowplow’ contest. Chicago residents are once again encouraged to create innovative snowplow names and submit them to www.chicagoshovels.org by January 12, 2023. At the end of the contest, DSS will pick the top six names, and those names will represent one snowplow in each of the City’s six snow districts, joining the named snowplow fleet announced earlier this year. Due to a near-tie for sixth place, seven winning names were chosen for the first contest, including:

1. Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow

2. Da Plow

3. Salter Payton

4. Sears Plower

5. Sleet Home Chicago

6. Holy Plow!

7. Jean Baptiste Point du Shovel

Once the names are chosen, signage for the winning snowplow names will be installed on the snowplows, and residents who submitted the winning names (earliest time stamp when there are multiple submissions) will be offered a photo opportunity with the named snowplow along with city swag. All residents will be able to view the named snowplows, along with the city’s full snow fleet, in real-time during winter storms via the City’s newly updated plow tracker.