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During WNBA season, bars and restaurants say they saw greater customer demand for women's sports

JOSH PEHLKE remembers having to beg and plead at bars and restaurants to get them to show WNBA games just a few years ago. Too often, the answer was a flat-out no.
These days, he doesn’t have to worry as much.
As the general manager at Signature Bar & Restaurant in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood, about a three-point shot from the Chicago Sky’s home at Wintrust Arena, he has some say. But even when he's not at work, he has noticed a difference.
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