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🌱 Holiday Music Is Back + The Hideout On Hiatus + Chuy Garcia's Odds
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Hi! I'm back with your fresh edition of the Chicago Daily. If you enjoy reading this newsletter, share it with friends, neighbors and advertisers to help keep us going. Now, on to what you need to know right now, including:
- 🗳️ Chuy Garcia will likely run for mayor after poll results show him beating Lightfoot
- ⏸️ The Hideout will be on a hiatus for the foreseeable future
- 🎄 A Chicago radio station's Christmas season begins today
But first, if you find yourself with leftover Halloween candy, here's a list of places in the Chicago area that will take it.
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📰 Top 5 stories in Chicago:
1) Garcia likely to run for mayor after poll shows him beating Lightfoot in two-way race. A poll of 616 likely Chicago voters conducted last week by Public Policy Polling, a Raleigh, N.C. firm that works exclusively for Democrats, found that U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia would easily defeat Mayor Lori Lightfoot in a runoff, and that he's the only top challenger who'd win a head-to-head match-up.
2) You can now fly to every inhabited continent from Chicago. Chicago is once again one of five cities in the world offering direct air service to every inhabited continent. O'Hare International Airport now offers flights to cities in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania. The announcement comes after Air New Zealand relaunched its direct service from O'Hare to Auckland Airport.
3) The Hideout to begin hiatus, hopes to reopen in 2023. The popular Bucktown bar and music venue will close for the foreseeable future as owners Tim and Kate Huten and Jim Hichsliff "navigate a situation" involving allegations by a former employee over how he was treated while working for the business. The Hideout will begin its hiatus Nov. 7 and remain closed for the rest of the year.
4) Can Chicago's independent coffee shops bounce back? Cafes cut hours as they struggle. Some cafe owners in Chicago haven't seen their customer base return in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. They're struggling with staffing issues, ingredient shortages and high prices driven by inflation. Some have been forced to reduce hours, raise prices and even close locations to stay in business.
5) Bah, humbug? Chicago radio station's Christmas season begins Tuesday. Ready or not, 93.9 WLIT FM announced on social media that at 4 p.m. today the station will begin playing around-the-clock Christmas music. The Nov. 1 switchover is the earliest ever for the station in its 22 years of playing holiday hits. "Once the ghosts and ghouls are gone, we become Chicago's Christmas music station," afternoon host Mick Lee said.
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📌 Today in Chicago:
- Tuesday Morning Farmers Market in Lincoln Square (7:00 AM)
- Sweet Dreams The Halloween Experience on Clark Street (5:00 PM)
- Make a Photo Gift at Jefferson Park Branch Library (6:00 PM)
- Band-Maid US Tour 2022 at House of Blues (6:00 PM)
- Soccer Mommy with Lightning Bug at Metro (6:00 PM)
- Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Celebration at Back of the Yards Branch Library (6:00 PM)
- Halloween Trivia at KOVAL Tasting Room (7:00 PM)
- Ross Gay: Inciting Joy at American Writers Museum (7:30 PM)
- Grieg Piano Concerto & Prokofiev 6 at Chicago Symphony Orchestra (7:30 PM)
- Sevdaliza, Ariel Zetina at Lincoln Hall (8:00 PM)
- Drag Lotería: Dia De Muertos at Replay Andersonville (8:00 PM)
- An Evening of Sophisti-Pop at Sleeping Village (8:00 PM)
- Jarekus Singleton at SPACE (8:00 PM)
- Trueanon Presents: The Year of the Smile :) at Empty Bottle (8:00 PM)
📱 Social chatter:
- Haunted Dolls & History's Horrors: "Happy Halloween! If we saw our doll-ppelgänger, we'd probably lose our head too. Find this doll (if you dare) as part of "Haunted Dolls & History's Horrors," which runs through Sunday, 11/6. http://ow.ly/KCXb50Lqb5W #HauntedCHM #CreepyDoll" (Chicago History Museum via Facebook)
- White House ofrenda: "The National Museum of Mexican Art is honored to have been asked by the White House to create an ofrenda for Día de Muertos this year. Through this ofrenda, the White House celebrates Mexican culture and offers Latina/o staff an opportunity to honor their departed loved ones, steps away from the Oval Office." (National Museum of Mexican Art via Facebook)
- Haunted sites: "😈 5 Haunted Sites in Chicago 👻 Link in bio. #Chicago #Halloween #architecture #design #hauntedsites #hauntedbuildings #spooky" (Chicago Architecture Center via Instagram)
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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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