🌱 Pandemic Rats / Bears Blown Out / Uber-Jacking / UFO Video?

Well, Chicago was named America's rattiest city for the seventh year in a row. That's neither a reference to the wire-wearing aldermen nor the worst of the bad news about the city's rodent population.

Apparently, the coronavirus crisis that crippled the restaurant industry and left dumpsters empty had an unexpected consequence. Chicago's rats have become increasingly hungry, aggressive and boldly making themselves at home in residential buildings, according to, well, the Orkin Man.

Rainy. High: 54 Low: 48.

• Are you ready for Halloween Week? Eater offers its"Ultimate Guide" to tricks, treats and spooky scares at Chicago bars and restaurants ... north of 31st Street. (Eater)
• An Uber driver was carjacked at gunpoint in Lincoln Park while waiting to pick up customers early Sunday. Police reportedly were slow to arrive, so the customers ordered a second Uber to transport their original driver to a police station to file a report. (CWB)
• Is it time for guaranteed basic income in Chicago? Freelance reporter Francesca Mathewes examines the controversial proposal to address extreme poverty proposed by progressive aldermen and included as pilot program in Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2022 budget. (WBEZ)
• Monday's long-shot: Police union boss John Catanzara wants a crowd to show up at City Hall today in support of an ordinance that aims to overturn Mayor Lori Lightfoot's city employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate. (WGN)
• The Bears lost so badly to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucs that former failed head coach Marc Trestman and quarterback Mitch Trubinsky were trending on Twitter. Current Bears quarterback Justin Fields had five turnovers in the 38-3 blow-out loss. (CBS2)

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• A Very Rude Film Fest at Beat Kitchen (8 p.m.)
• Vulfpeck Album Performed Live at Fulton Street Collective (8 p.m.)
• Hocus Pocus at ChiTown Movies (7 p.m.)
• Trick or Treat on Southport at Cafe Tola (4 p.m.)
• TV Girl at The Metro (8:30 p.m.)

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• At least 25 people were shot, 3 fatally in Chicago this weekend.
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• Is this a Chicago UFO sighting?
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