🌱 Business Owners Seek Help Curbing Crime + Thanksgiving Parade

Happy Thanksgiving, Lakeview! Let’s get to a brief recap of the news before you start your holiday.

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Here are the top stories today in Lakeview:

1. Local business owners are asking the Cook County State's Attorney for help curbing crime. Leaders of the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce are among those asking “why repeat offenders appear to be getting back on the streets so easily.” (CBS2)

2. A man was robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning in the 400 block of West Oakdale. Offenders stole his backpack, laptop and phone. It is one of many recent armed robberies in the neighborhood. (CWB)

3. The city's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade returns today, beginning at 8:45 a.m. on State Street downtown. More than 80 floats, balloons and bands are on the route this year. (City)

4. Movement Wrigleyville is featured in a recent Forbes article about Americans’ growing interest in climbing gyms. More than 60 have opened across the U.S. this year alone. (Forbes)

5. Chicago’s record stores make for "minimally miserable Black Friday destinations," the Chicago Reader reported this week. Lakeview's 50-year-old establishment Gramaphone Records made their list of the city's best. (Chicago Reader)

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