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• Patch's Best 2026 Halloween Yard Haunts: Cook County (patch.com) — Oak Lawn residents can tour two standout Halloween displays this year, including Smith's Grove Cemetery on South 55th Avenue, a full graveyard scene with a skeleton rock band, music, lights, and towering figures. Another Oak Lawn stop is a haunted condo balcony on Cicero Avenue, part of a wider Cook County yard-haunt guide that invites locals to submit their own spooky setups throughout October.
• Calumet Park man charged in connection with video gambling terminal burglaries in Oak Lawn, other suburbs (chicagotribune.com) — Oak Lawn residents are learning more about recent video gambling terminal burglaries after a Calumet Park man was charged in connection with two local break-ins at Stella's Place and Avenue Flower Shop and Wine Bar. Police say the sledgehammer-style thefts have strained village resources and helped spur new security fogger regulations approved by Oak Lawn and Alsip officials.
• Anthony Davis Names Mount Rushmore Of Chicago Hoopers; Leaves Isiah Thomas Off For Simple Reason (newsbreak.com) — Oak Lawn gets a shout-out in a debate over Chicago basketball greats, as the story notes Dwyane Wade's time at Harold L. Richards High School here. Anthony Davis shares his personal Mount Rushmore of Chicago hoopers, sparking discussion about who truly counts as a Chicago player and how high school roots factor into that legacy.
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