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Texans add Pro Bowl wide receiver Diontae Johnson after devastating injury to Tank DellEditor’s Note: This story was originally published on Dec. 11, 2016. Jessica Tansey was driving around Chicago the weekend after Thanksgiving when she noticed a sudden addition to her neighborhood. “I passed a bunch of little Christmas tree pop-ups,” she recalls, adding, “And I just wondered who all the people are behind it and what their stories are.” So she turned to Curious City writing: “Pop-up Christmas tree sellers are seemingly in the corner of every Chicago parking lot. What’s a week in the life? A year in the life? The return on investment?” We want to wrap up the answer before the holidays end, so we’re skipping the “week/year in the life” part to focus on the heart of it: Who are the people that run these lots and how do they run their businesses? We learn there’re lots of ways to keep a tree lot business humming, but here’s what they have in common: The holiday season goes by quickly, so they have to hustle. Let’s start with one of Chicago’s oldest and biggest tree lot operations — fittingly called Chicago Christmas Tree Lots. It’s run by Gregg Arneson, who works construction in northern Wisconsin for most of the year. But for about a half century, he’s spent the holiday season in Chicago selling trees. Arneson says his grandfather was one of the city’s earliest tree retailers, cutting down wild trees in the woods and sending them to Chicago by schooner. He was part of a trade that made Christmas trees — a traditional German custom — both accessible and popular in Chicago at turn of the 20th century. Many of the first “lots” were actually ships docked around the Clark Street bridge. The history of popularizing the “Tannenbaum” tradition in the city (and the danger of it) is recounted each year in productions of a musical called “ The Christmas Schooner .” Captain Herman “Christmas Tree” Scheunemann, center was among the pioneers of the local Christmas tree trade. He perished in an accident when his tree-loaded ship went down in icy Lake Michigan storms. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum Arneson says later generations of his family continued the trade, but made some changes. Instead of cutting down wild trees, they started tree farms, and the schooners were replaced by trains and trucks. These days, Arneson brings down trees from his own farm and others nearby. But with the rise of big-box stores, that model is fading. “Years ago — I’d say until about 25 years ago — there were more individual tree lots with people from up north bringing their products down to sell them,” he says. Nowadays, Arneson says, huge commercial competitors from across the country ship trees to big-box stores where trees are often less vetted and cheaper. Home Depot outlets in Chicago, for example, price 5-foot Scotch pines for $19. They retail 6-foot Fraser firs for $70. The stores offer spruce and fir varieties with price-points in between, too. But, Arneson says, he’s held in there. In recent years, he’s run six to 10 lots in various Chicago locations he rents across the North Side. He sells a variety of fresh Midwest pines, spruces and firs for about $40 to $90 for average size trees. He credits his survival to clients who are looking for something beyond the big-box experience. “My customer tends to be more picky,” he says. “They’ll come in and spend an hour, sometimes two hours, walking around looking for the perfect tree. And that’s the difference, basically.” Chris Peterson, 34, of Wisconsin, mans the Arneson Christmas tree lot in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. He lives in the on-site trailer. “We’ve got our cold days, but we have heat in there,” he says, adding that he’s grateful for the job. “It helps out quite a bit at the end of the year. ... It helps out with presents and the family.” Katherine Nagasawa/WBEZ Each year, Arneson pulls off his own version of the holiday hustle, spending long days driving between lots, stocking trees and helping with night deliveries. He hires temporary workers to manage the lots, and this season they even include some Jamaican fireman buddies. “They bundle up and we got them some gear, and so far they like it,” he says. Mostly, though, Arneson says he hires construction workers and others Wisconsinites looking for seasonal work. Arneson’s model is one of the most traditional — and one that Chicagoans like Jessica are most likely to encounter. But there are others. Ivy Speck is a Wrigleyville property owner who uses her lot at Roscoe and Sheffield for Cubs parking during baseball season. But come late November, she transforms it into a fragrant forest of Fraser firs called Ivy’s Christmas Trees . Speck has been selling trees in the neighborhood for 28 years. When we catch up with her, she’s buzzing around her lot in a yellow vest twinkling with Christmas lights. Despite the cold, she says she loves the business: “It’s fast, it’s furious, and it’s over in about three and a half weeks.” On a good weekday, she says she can sell up to 100 trees, but that doubles on weekends. Unlike Arneson, Speck has the advantage of owning the property where she sells, but like other operators, she’s required to get an itinerant merchant’s license from the city that costs $50 a month. For labor, she says she hires her nephew and his friends for a few weeks. Speck says it’s a good business, but one that takes a while to master. One hurdle is figuring out the best trees to sell. “In 1990, I didn’t know anything about trees,” she says. “We started out selling Scotch pines and other trees from Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. But then we started selling these [Fraser firs] — and little by little nobody wanted to buy any of the other trees.” Ivy Speck of Ivy’s Christmas Trees bounces between customers on an unusually warm late November night. “Normally I’m inside my little hut with the heat on,” she says. Katherine Nagasawa/WBEZ The premium Fraser firs Speck buys from North Carolina have a reputation for growing straight, retaining their needles and smelling fabulous. Other cheaper varieties can fall short on any or all of these traits. We quote Speck some figures from a tree-retailing website that says vendors can buy their trees for $15 to $25 and sell them for triple the price they paid. She questions the figures, saying her trees cost more, and she sells most for $50 to $90. (That’s for payment in cash. She tacks on a bit more for credit-card transactions.) When I quote the website’s estimate that a vendor can make $15,000 to $20,000 a month on tree sales, Speck also seems skeptical. “Ok, sure,” she says. “I wouldn’t work here if I only made that, though. But those are my secrets.” Still, she notes that her profits are balanced by all the costs that go into her operation. These include staffing, shipping, delivery, supplies and packaging. But those aren’t the only business models that keep tree lots humming across Chicago each season. Some lots are actually fundraisers run by scout troops, schools or churches. They often do a mix of pre-order and on-site sales of trees on their properties. More are also popping up near restaurants, where outdoor seating areas can conveniently morph into tree lots this time of year. This includes 90 Miles restaurant on Clybourn Avenue, and Big Star , a taco joint in Wicker Park. Diners at Big Star sometimes become tree buyers and vice versa. Chicago entrepreneur Chris Hohenstein has run the Big Star tree lot for five years. It’s an outgrowth of his online-only City Tree Delivery that he started in 2008. This year he has two physical lots that he says complement his online operation. Neighborhood foot traffic has served Ivy Speck well over the years, but recently she’s taken to social media for outreach. Katherine Nagasawa/WBEZ “A lot of people like the convenience of ordering their tree online,” Hohenstein says. “But these lots have been great for buyers who want to see and smell their tree first. The locations create a lot of atmosphere. Big Star has drink specials for people who get a tree, and at our North Center location we partner with a nonprofit that sets up a hot cocoa stand on weekends.” Despite all the work leading up to the big day, all the vendors tell us they’re usually able to wrap up several days before Christmas — well in time to celebrate themselves. Arneson says he donates extra trees to charity or the Lincoln Park Zoo to use for the animals. As a last resort, he chips them up for mulch. But Speck says she has been experimenting with another solution. The week before Christmas she leaves all her unsold trees in the lot with an honor box and a suggested price of $20. And for the most part, she says, people prove pretty honorable this time of year. Monica Eng was previously a reporter for WBEZ’s Curious City. Jessica Tansey meets owner Ivy Speck of Ivy’s Christmas Trees. Katherine Nagasawa/WBEZ

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The Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers have released their lists of inactives ahead of the Week 14 game at Ford Field on Thursday night and there is one surprise for the Lions. Ahead of Thursday, both teams ruled out four players. The Lions won't have the services of left tackle Taylor Decker and defensive linemen D.J. Reader, Levi Onwuzurike and Josh Paschal. To help fill the void along the defensive line, the Lions signed Myles Adams off the Seattle Seahawks' practice squad and Jonah Williams off the Los Angeles Rams' practice squad. Swing tackle Dan Skipper is expected to start in place of Decker. Also expected to lend a helping hand in some form or fashion are safety Jamal Adams and outside linebacker Mitchell Agude, both of whom were elevated from the practice squad for the Week 14 contest. Adams was signed this week and could see some time at linebacker at some point. The Lions will see the return of cornerback Carlton Davis, who sat out with an injury last week. But Emmanuel Moseley is the surprise inactive, as head coach Dan Campbell had said he would be good to go this week. It isn't clear what went wrong for Moseley but we'll have to wait at least another week for his 2024 debut. The Packers ruled out four players on Wednesday, also, including cornerback Jaire Alexander, who has missed four of the last five games now. Leaving the Packers even shorter at cornerback, Corey Ballentine has also been ruled out. Linebacker Edgerrin Cooper and wide receiver Romeo Doubs are not suiting up, either. Now, a look at the full list of inactives for the Lions and Packers with kickoff almost here. Lions inactives OT Taylor Decker DL Levi Onwuzurike DL Josh Paschal DL D.J. Reader CB Emmanuel Moseley OL Giovanni Manu OL Kayode Awosika Packers inactives CB Jaire Alexander CB Corey Ballentine WR Romeo Doubs LB Edgerrin Cooper OL Jacob Monk MORE DETROIT LIONS NEWS Jake Bates wins award, Lions make franchise history Lions vs. Packers picks, predictions Several Lions among leaders in Pro Bowl votingAP News Summary at 4:54 p.m. EST

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