🌱 CTA Keeps Low Rates + Christkindlmarket In Wrigleyville

Welcome to the weekend, Lakeview! Let's start this Saturday with what's making news near you.

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First, today's weather: Partly sunny. High: 54, low: 48.

Here are the top stories in Lakeview today:

1. The Chicago Transit Authority will keep its pandemic-discounted rates through 2022. The one-day pass will continue to cost five dollars, down from 10 dollars before the pandemic, when ridership was double what it is now. (Block Club)

2. A coalition of Chicago's faith leaders met Thursday to call on city officials to pass a “moral budget” that prioritizes reducing poverty and gun violence in the city. Rev. Dr. Beth Brown of Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church said: “Policing will not change the violence. What will change violence is investment in, for one thing, mental health care." (ABC7)

3. Daycare workers in Illinois must get vaccinated against COVID-19 by December, according to a new executive order by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. NBC reports the mandate “applies to more than 55,000 staff members who work at 2,872 licensed daycare facilities statewide.” (NBC5)

4. Hospital system Amita Health is splitting up as organizations AdventHealth and Ascension announced their decision to “go their separate ways.” No further explanation was given. Amita runs 19 hospitals in Illinois, making it one of the largest systems in the state. (Paid source: Chicago Tribune)

5. The city’s annual Christkindlmarket will return to Wrigleyville next month. The popular destination is set to open Nov. 19 at Gallagher Way, along with its original downtown location at Daley Plaza. (NBC5)

Today in Lakeview:

• The annual Lakeview Halloween Pup Crawl comes to Northalsted. (10 a.m.)
• Boo-Palooza returns to Wicker Park. (10 a.m.)
• Lakeview Church of Christ hosts its fall festival. (1 p.m.)
• Horror movie pop-up “Sweet Dreams” continues at Rizzo’s Bar and Inn. (1 p.m.)
• Now playing at the Music Box Theatre, “The Rescue” chronicles the 2018 mission that saved 12 boys from a cave in North Thailand. (4:15 p.m.)

Lakeview Patch Notebook

• Food shortages are affecting the quality of school lunches in Chicago this semester. (Chalkbeat)
• Ellie Thompson & Co. was named “one of the coolest jewelry stores in America” by InStore Magazine. (Chamber)
• Annoyance Theatre alum Jason Sudeikis hosts “Saturday Night Live” tonight. (Deadline)
• “A Chicago landmark destination for the counterculture lifestyle,” The Alley has moved from Lakeview to Avondale. (WGN)
• Bloodshot Records, first founded in a Wrigleyville basement in 1993, was acquired this week by investment group Exceleration Music. (Block Club)

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