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Logan Square’s Pumpkin Fest returns for 23rd year with an ofrenda and ‘family-oriented’ fun

The free Logan Square event boasted many activities along with cider and, for the first time this year, an ofrenda — an altar to honor loved ones who have died — to mark Día de los Muertos celebrations.

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$20,000 grant from CHA puts homeownership within residents’ reach

A single mother who earlier this month closed on an East Garfield Park single-family home became the CHA’s new down payment program’s first recipient.

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‘Vive Adrianna’ — Vigil held to honor slain special education teacher

About 100 people gathered outside Adrianna Lopez’s Garfield Ridge home Friday night. Lopez was killed Sunday night.

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Southeast Side mural pays tribute to hip-hop’s Public Enemy

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at a mural on the Southeast Side, a new painting celebrating the Chicago Bulls and another piece of art in Austin chronicling Black history in Chicago.

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Cops with ties to Oath Keepers are a ticking time bomb for Chicago

Police with extremist ties are a clear and present danger to normal society and responsible law enforcement, a Hyde Park letter writer says.

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Chicago Catholics join pope’s day of prayer, fasting for peace in the Middle East

“There’s nothing much we can do as an individual, but as the priest said, we can show by example and we can pray,” parishioner Keum-Lee Mayes said.

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‘The War on Disco’: How high-energy music made some want to dance, and others want to demolish

As PBS’ illuminating ‘American Experience’ episode recalls, the new ’70s sound empowered some communities, but brought a backlash that culminated in a fiery night at Comiskey Park.

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Marilyn Katz, a behind-the-scenes force in Chicago politics for decades, dead at 78

She marched with MLK and helped elect Mayor Harold Washington, and her views were forged as an activist with Students for a Democratic Society during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Picture Chicago: 24 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

Temperatures broke records and climbed above 80 degrees, the Bears beat the Raiders at Soldier Field, and thousands of protesters took to downtown streets to call for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

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Humboldt Park artist Stef Skills loves Public Enemy and paid tribute to the hip-hop icons with a mural

The rap group “baptized me into hip-hop music and culture,” the artist says, with lyrics that helped instill in her “the spirit of activism and being able to question things.”

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Assistant in Pritzker’s emergency agency quits amid questions over pay that peaked at $48K a month

Between February and August, the executive assistant accounted for $240,761.30 in billings — double the salary of her boss, Alicia Tate-Nadeau, during that period.

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Client of crooked Bridgeport bank got out of $4 million owed by going bankrupt, then got millions more in loans

A month after Edward H. Gobbo got out of bankruptcy, Washington Federal Bank for Savings CEO John F. Gembara starting giving him loans of millions, records show. When the bank went bust, Gobbo or his immediate family owed more than $3.8 million on 27 residential loans, some of them years…

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‘Power and control’ frame Edward Burke’s legacy. A federal jury will soon decide that legacy’s coda.

He entered politics as one of the youngest Chicago City Council members in history and became its most powerful and longest-serving member. Now, he’s fighting to avoid prison.

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Ex-boyfriend of slain CPS special education teacher charged with attempted murder in shooting of state trooper

Cristobal Santana is accused of shooting a state trooper in the leg Wednesday in Springfield. The family of his ex-girlfriend allege he’s responsible for her shooting death Sunday in Chicago.

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Police oversight panel asks city watchdog to investigate Chicago Police Department’s ties to extremist groups

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability on Thursday recommended the city’s inspector general investigate officers named on an Oath Keepers list so any extremists can be “rooted out” of the department.

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Brown Sugar Bakery opens new manufacturing facility, eyes nationwide expansion

Owner Stephanie Hart will be crafting her cakes, chocolates and treats out of the Ashburn facility with the help of two state grants.

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Chicago-area retiree opens her home to migrants — ‘new family members’ — stuck at police stations

Elaine Pierce, an Oak Park resident with terminal cancer, opened her bungalow to families in early August. Advocates say she’s an example of the resolve needed to turn the migrant crisis into an opportunity.

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Divide between police and community not as wide as some think, civilian oversight panel’s president says

Anthony Driver, who heads the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability, said the commonalities he has discovered between police and the public has been the “defining moment” of his 14-month tenure.

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Afternoon Edition: CPD vows to root out officers with extremist ties

Plus: Suspect in teacher’s murder arrested, the state of Chicago’s music scene and more.

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Theater in downtown Chicago named one of the most haunted places in the world by Condé Nast

A fire that raged through the Iroquois Theatre in 1903, where the Nederlander Theatre now stands, killed 602 people. The fire was “a disaster unmatched even by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.”

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Architect Daniel P. Coffey, whose work helped revive the Loop and reshaped the UIC campus, dies at 69

Coffey’s restoration of the Chicago Theatre and other venues contributed to the creation of Loop’s live theater district.

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Hate crime, aggravated battery charges filed after crowd maced at pro-Palestinian protest outside Israeli solidarity event in Skokie

Zevulen Ebert, 33, was charged after he allegedly sprayed mace into a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters Sunday in Skokie.

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Mike Reed plays on — through Chicago music scene’s highs and lows

Through his work as Pitchfork Music Festival’s co-founder, owner of Constellation and the Hungry Brain, and an esteemed free jazz bandleader, Reed has helped shape Chicago’s music scene.

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Toxic past leads to concern about Brighton Park migrant tent site

Amid neighbors’ protests over the planned tent city and pending environmental tests, Chicago officials are continuing to assess the site.

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19-year-old shot to death in South Shore

Officers found the man unresponsive in the 6700 block of South East End Avenue.

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