‘Abolish ICE’ submitted 9,200 times for snow plough naming contest

People in Chicago aren’t the biggest fans of ICE – or ice, for that matter (Picture: Getty Images North America)

When people in the UK were given the chance to name a boat, they came up with ‘Boaty McBoatface’.

But when Chicagoans were given the chance to give a snowplough a name, they got slightly more topical.

More than 9,200 people in the Illinois capital have voted to name a snowplough ‘Abolish ICE’.

This amounts to 70% of the 13,300 submissions made so far, Block Club Chicago reported, citing obtained records.