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| Your Guide to November | From a free Bengali folk festival to “Mexodus” to tips for planning your own bar crawl, our guide to November is jam-packed. Plus, the fight over arts funding in the 2027 budget and what we’re following on election night. [City Cast Chicago 🎧] | - Stay tuned: An even bigger guide to November hits your inbox today!
| | Gunshot Detection Pilot Planned For South And West Sides | Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is launching a gunshot detection pilot program on parts of the South and West Sides to test tech besides ShotSpotter. Johnson terminated the city’s ShotSpotter contract two years ago. The scope of the new program is unclear. [Block Club] | | | Should Chicago Have Official Trick-or-Treating Hours? | Some Chicago suburbs have set trick-or-treating hours between noon and 8 p.m. Chicago leaves it up to neighbors — usually it happens after school. Should Chicago do it too? Neighbors have thoughts. [Axios] | - Need costume inspo? We got you. [City Cast Chicago 💻]
| | Hattie B’s Opens in Wicker Park | Hattie B’s, a hot chicken chain from Nashville, just opened its second Chicago location. It takes up the former Urban Belly space in Wicker Park. [Instagram: hattiebs] | |
| Sports Corner | A Big Bears Trade | The Chicago Bears shook up the NFC this week when they traded for Titans Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons. Does this improve the Bears’ Super Bowl odds, or did they overpay? [Sun-Times] | | |  | Babe’s was lit at 11 a.m. on a Thursday. (Emmi Mack / City Cast Chicago) |
| A WNBA Party | Babe’s, the women’s sports bar in Logan Square, was PACKED yesterday morning for the WNBA finals. Fans worked on laptops and drank coffee (and Bloody Marys) while the bar crew slung DIY McGriddles out back. Lit WFH set-up. | - ICYMI: The Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries, which means one more game. See you at Babe’s?
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| | | Fall in Illinois is eye-opening. And we’re not just talking about the kaleidoscopic colors that paint the landscapes from Galena to the Garden of the Gods and every breathtaking outlook in between. It’s just the right time to discover fresh exhibits in Chicago’s world-class museums. Slow things down in charming small towns. And feast on the farm-to-table bounty. The show’s about to begin in the Middle of Everything. |
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| | | | As we gear up for Election Day, I want to make sure you know your stuff — were you paying attention to my (extremely detailed) voter guide? Let’s find out! | | | | | |
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😈👹🎃👻🎉🧟🤪🧛🐈⬛👽💀🦇🍻Now get out there and have an epic Halloweekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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