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Good morning! I'm back with your new copy of the Chicago Daily. Here's all the community news you need to know right now, including:

  • 👟 What you need to know about the Chicago Marathon
  • 🏗️ Leone Beach Field House in Rogers Park to shelter migrants from Texas
  • 🎫 Parking tickets in Chicago up 25% in first half of 2022

Early voting in Chicago begins today. More information here.

🌧️ The weather:

Cooler with showers around. High: 54 Low: 39.

📰 Top 5 stories in Chicago:

1) 2022 Chicago Marathon: Start time, road closures and everything else you need to know. The 44th Bank of America Chicago Marathon will be held on Sunday. This year, 40,000 runners will participate in the world-class event with more than one million spectators cheering from the sidelines. The weekend festivities kicked off yesterday at McCormick Place during the Abbott Health and Fitness Expo. The marathon will begin at 7:20 a.m. on Sunday in Grant Park, but preparations are already well underway. Street closures on race day begin at 7 a.m. with parking restrictions in effect. However, other streets around Chicago have already begun to accommodate racecourse set up and construction.

Fox 32 Chicago

2) Retired Chicago officer's lost ring returned through coincidence, connection. A little bit of faith and good detective work helped recover retired Chicago Police officer Larry Krause's missing graduation ring. Krause graduated from the police academy in 1965 and his late mother gifted him a ring to commemorate the occasion, and that ring has served a special place in his heart ever since. Once retired, Krause moved to Arkansas. He said he never took the ring off every step of the way—until he lost it one day. After spending time looking for it, Krause sent a prayer out to St. Anthony, the Patron Saint of lost things. Krause exhausted almost every connection, but luck would turn out to be on his side as his ring was recovered due to a coincidence and a connection that spans all the way from Chicago to Arkansas.

WGN-TV

3) Leone Beach Field House in Rogers Park converted to shelter for migrants bused from Texas. The field house at Leone Beach Park has been converted into a temporary emergency shelter to help house thousands of migrants bused to Chicago from Texas. The field house was converted to a housing shelter last week and is now sheltering asylum seekers sent to Chicago by Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, according to Ald. Maria Hadden (49th). Leone Beach Park's field house is not generally open to the public and is used mostly in the summer as storage and break rooms for lifeguards. The Chicago Park District field house on the Rogers Park lakefront is the latest building to be converted to a shelter as city officials scramble to provide services for the migrants, who began arriving at the end of August. As of Tuesday, 2,078 migrants have been brought to Chicago from Texas.

Block Club Chicago

4) Why top Chicago doctor is more concerned about this flu season than previous years. While COVID cases across Illinois and the Chicago area continuing to decrease, health experts including Chicago's top doctor are beginning to show concern for a potential rise in more a routine virus: Influenza. "I would be shocked if this year we didn't have the worst flu season that we've had while COVID has been with us, and I don't know for sure what that will look like," Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health said yesterday during a Facebook Live. In August, flu was surging in Australia, marking a shift for the country since the start of the pandemic. As of Aug. 4, the country was reporting its worst flu season in five years. According to experts, this could potentially point to signs of what's to come for the U.S.

NBC Chicago

5) Parking tickets in Chicago surge by 25.7% in first half of year. To motorists returning to their vehicles to find a parking ticket on the windshield, it always seems like Chicago is in a ticketing blitz. This year, they might be right. Ticketing is up 25.7% through the first six months of 2022—from 853,906 tickets through June 30 of last year to 1,073,919 tickets during the same period this year. That's pretty remarkable, considering Chicago made up for lost time in 2021 to recoup pandemic-related losses in booting and ticketing, two of city government's biggest revenue generators. Booting is headed in the opposite direction. It's down 12.6%—from 27,656 of the wheel-locking devices applied through June 30 of 2021 to just 24,158 vehicles booted during the same period this year. The 42nd Ward—which includes downtown and the River North entertainment district—drove the ticketing blitz, with a 31% increase that exceeded the citywide average. It had 118,421 tickets written through June 30, compared to 90,190 during the first six months of last year.

Chicago Sun-Times

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📌 Today in Chicago:

  • 4th Annual Donut Crawl at The Bean (7:00 AM)
  • Chicago Water Week 2022 (8:00 AM)
  • Yoga for Adults at West Lawn Branch Library (9:30 AM)
  • Fall Fest at Lincoln Park Zoo (10:00 AM)
  • The Chicago Show: Antiques & Art & Modern (11:00 AM)
  • Lincoln Park Wine Festival at Jonquil Park (5:00 PM)
  • Cultural Connections: East Meets Middle East at South Asia Institute (7:00 PM)
  • World Music Festival at Reggies Chicago (9:00 PM)

Saturday:

  • Fall Fest at Lincoln Park Zoo (10:00 AM)
  • Lincoln Park Wine Festival at Jonquil Park (11:00 AM)
  • Fall Fest & Costume Swap in Jefferson Memorial Park (11:00 AM)
  • Historic Pullman House Tour at Historic Pullman Exhibit Hall (11:00 AM)
  • The Chicago Show: Antiques & Art & Modern (11:00 AM)
  • Oktoberfestiversary 2022 at (11:00 AM)
  • Hyde Park Walking Tour at Seminary Co-op (1:00 PM)
  • World Music Festival at Chop Shop (10:00 PM)

Sunday:

  • Chicago Marathon (7:20 AM)
  • Fall Fest at Lincoln Park Zoo (10:00 AM)
  • Lincoln Park Wine Festival at Jonquil Park (11:00 AM)
  • Historic Pullman House Tour at Historic Pullman Exhibit Hall (11:00 AM)
  • Oktoberfestiversary 2022 at (11:00 AM)
  • The Chicago Show: Antiques & Art & Modern (12:00 PM)
  • World Music Festival at Navy Pier (3:00 PM)
  • First Indigenous Peoples Day Festival at Logan Square Auditorium (6:30 PM)
  • Regina Spektor at The Chicago Theatre (7:30 PM)

📱 Social chatter:

  • Northwestern Campus voted prettiest: "Chicago's own Northwestern Campus has been named one of the prettiest college campuses in the U.S. by Architectural Digest. 🤩" (Chicago Architecture Center via Instagram)
  • T. rex mystery: "There are still a few (literal) holes left in SUE's history—including the mystery of the marks on our T. rex's left jawbone. 🔍 🦖 In a new study, researchers from Carnegie Museum, the University of Chicago, and the Field used high-res images of SUE's skull to dig deeper into one theory about the source of the holes (some as big as golf balls) in the famous fossil's left mandible: infection from a protozoan parasite." (Field Museum via Facebook)
  • Lion photo: "The golden boy during golden hour! The lion pride rested around him as Pilipili surveyed guests. 📸Rachel Markowitz #FromAKeeper" (Lincoln Park Zoo via Facebook)
  • CTA back in the day: "⏪ December 1954 A #36 Broadway streetcar stops to pick up passengers from a boarding island on State Street at Lake. Among the last of the PCC streetcars built for Chicago in 1947-48, many parts from these cars would later be used in a new fleet of 'L' cars in the 1950s." (Chicago Transit Authority via Facebook)
  • Teachers Village: "The Humboldt Park school, which closed in 2013, is poised to become 107 apartments for teachers." (Block Club Chicago via Facebook)

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— Nicole Cvetnic

About me: I'm a Midwesterner and very happy to call Chicagoland home. I love the outdoors—especially hiking, performing arts, photography, good food, travel and gardening. You can often find me reading to my two-year-old daughter, watching a tv series with my husband or cuddling with our special needs dog.

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