CHICAGO — This year’s Christkindlmarket will feature a heart-shaped mug and another mug with a gingerbread design — but it might be the market’s new Krampus plushie that steals the show.

The market showed off this year’s merch in a Thursday news release. The market itself, with locations at Daley Plaza and Wrigleyville’s Gallagher Way, returns Nov. 21 and will run through Dec. 31.

Collectors of its mugs will have two options to pick from this year: a 200-milliliter mug shaped like a heart and covered in a colorful design showing a German Christmas market, and a 200-milliliter mug with a gingerbread man and woman in lederhosen and a dirndl. Both mugs cost $10 if bought without a drink.

New to the market this year will be a Krampus stuffie with a tail, horns and a “cheeky tongue,” accordi

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