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Original Rainbow Cone will open for the season at noon on March 4, according to the shop’s Facebook page. The grand reopening celebration, featuring “limited freebies,” will be Saturday, March 5 at noon.

For many Chicagoans, the 90-year-old Beverly ice cream shop is synonymous with summer. Its signature item: a cone piled with chocolate, strawberry, Palmer House (vanilla with cherries and walnuts), and pistachio ice creams — in flat slices, not scoops — topped off with orange sherbet.

When Rainbow Cone was founded in 1926, a cone cost 13 cents. Today, you’ll shell out $3.39 for a small and $4.99 for a large.

9233 S. Western Ave., 773-238-7075.

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