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Good morning! Thanks for checking out today's Chicago Daily. In today's guide to local stories:

  • 🏅 University of Chicago professor wins Nobel Prize
  • 🏘 Open House Chicago shifts focus to neighborhoods
  • 🚨 Arrest made in Lincoln Park puppy punching incident

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📰 Top 5 stories in Chicago:

1) Man arrested at vet clinic accused of punching puppy in Lincoln Park. A man was arrested Sunday for animal abuse after police said he battered a dog on a busy Lincoln Park street. A witness who saw the arrest at a vet clinic said the man intended to euthanize the dog that day. Jose Orlando Cartegna, 28, of Hammond, Indiana, is charged with misdemeanor cruelty to animals. He was arrested in the 3300 block of North California Avenue in Avondale, the same block where MedVet Chicago is located. Surveillance video from Sept. 22 shows a man screeching a van to halt, grabbing a puppy out the trunk by the neck, repeatedly punching it and hurling it across the street.

Block Club Chicago

2) University of Chicago professor wins Nobel Prize in economics. A University of Chicago finance professor "considered one of the world's foremost minds regarding the banking industry is one of three winners of the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his influential research on banks and financial crises," according to the Nobel Foundation. Douglas Diamond, a professor who has worked for the Booth School of Business since 1979, yesterday became the 97th scholar associated with university to be a Nobel winner and the 33rd in economics. Diamond receives the award alongside former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and professor Philip Dybvig of Washington University in St. Louis. The trio will split the prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor, or about $885,000.

Chicago Tribune

3) Chicago's 1893 World's Fair brought to life with augmented reality. It has been Michael Finney's mission to bring the 1893 Columbian Exposition to life. Finney, a longtime fan of the fair, wanted to commemorate the 125th anniversary in 2018. So, he started to acquire photos from an antique book that was released in 1893 to promote the event. Finney would tweet out an interesting picture from the fair each day. "While I was doing that, I thought I have amassed a good amount of data. I could probably turn this into a book," Finney said. Released in August 2019, Finney published '1893: Chicago's Columbian Exposition.' But he didn't stop there ...

WGN-TV

4) Open House Chicago shifts focus to neighborhoods. Have you ever wanted to peek inside the Board of Trade's basement vault, tour Chicago's only castle, or see the Willis Tower's new outdoor terrace? Those sites are among 150 architectural rarities open to the public, for free, at this year's Open House Chicago this Saturday and Sunday. This year's selection of sites was made with a focus on Chicago's neighborhoods—20 to be exact. Hermosa and Chatham are included for the first time, and seventeen sites are new this year.

Chicago Sun-Times

5) Chicagoans struggle to escape food insecurity. Black and Latinx communities in Chicago are more likely to be food insecure than predominantly white communities. Across racial households with children that experienced food deficits, an estimated 120,084 were Black, 77,000 were Latinx, and 35,775 were white, according to data compiled between June 1 and July 11. Lack of food can be an aspect of poverty, especially in low-income communities like North Lawndale, East and West Garfield Park, and Englewood. Grassroots farmers' markets and food pantries are working to meet community needs.

The Chicago Reporter

📌 Today in Chicago:

  • Tuesday Morning Farmers Market at Lincoln Square (7:00 AM)
  • SOAR Farmer's Market at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (7:00 AM)
  • Street sweeping (odd addresses) in Village of Schiller Park (8:00 AM)
  • Film screening: "Coach Carter" at Blackstone Branch Library (11:00 AM)
  • Pier Pumpkin Lights at Navy Pier (11:00 AM)
  • Niki: The Nicole Tour at House of Blues (6:00 PM)
  • Haunted History Tour at Lincoln Park Zoo (7:00 PM)
  • Trans-Parent Love at Center on Halsted (7:00 PM)
  • Muse at The Riviera Theatre (7:30 PM)
  • Film screening: "Scream" at The Emily Hotel (7:30 PM)
  • Black Midi with Quelle Chris at Empty Bottle (7:30 PM)
  • Trivia Tuesday: Hocus Pocus Edition at Sidetrack (8:00 PM)
  • Tinariwen at Metro (8:00 PM)
  • Paul Kalkbrenner at Concord Music Hall (8:00 PM)
  • Horizon Jazz Quartet at Montrose Saloon (8:00 PM)

📱 Social chatter:

  • Wilco: "Here's a roundup of photos and videos taken by fans who made it inside the bar Sunday night." (Block Club Chicago)
  • Día de los Muertos: "'Hang out with any Mexican long enough and they'll tell you some spooky personal story,' says local playwright Ricardo Gamboa. For this year's Día de los Muertos, Gamboa is hosting ¡Ay Cucuy!, a night of scary stories and live music at at the APO Cultural Center Nov. 2.⁠" (Chicago magazine via Instagram)
  • NASA: "On this day in 2009, NASA slammed a rocket into the Moon. When NASA noticed signs of hydrogen at the Moon's poles, they were curious if it was in the form of water. So, they slammed a rocket into the Moon to see if it would make a watery 'splash.'" (Museum of Science and Industry via Instagram)
  • Mental health: "It's okay not to be okay. 💙 This World Mental Health Day, go behind the scenes of how the Bears are actively working to end the stigma around mental health." (Chicago Bears via Facebook)
  • Best wine road trips: "Get those roads trips planned." (Eater Chicago via Facebook)
  • October Fest: "Our friends at Blessed Martyrs of Chimbote Parish (formerly St. Joseph and St. Blase parishes) have just published the menu they'll be serving at their popular annual October Fest. Details in the flyer. See you there? :-)" (Southwest Chicago Post via Facebook)
  • Whole-hog BBQ coming soon: "Low country flavors are coming to Lincoln Park https://trib.al/PFMd6vQ" (Eater 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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