DOWNTOWN — A new St. Paddy’s Day tradition has emerged in Chicago, and it left Downtown littered with empty plastic jugs piled up near trashcans and curbsides.
Every year on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day, thousands descend on Downtown in their best green attire for the dyeing of the Chicago River, the St. Patrick’s Day parade and the associated bar crawls and general debauchery.
But in recent years, revelers — particularly younger ones of questionable drinking age — have moved away from Guinness and whiskey in favor of the BORG, which is an acronym for “black-out rage gallon.”
A BORG is a brightly-colored beverage typically made up of vodka, water, drink mix and some type of electrolyte formula meant to stave off hangovers. It is made in a gallon-sized jug that historically were more associated with milk consumption…