🌱 Street Sign Honors Teacher + Pumpkin Party At Gallagher Way

Good morning, Lakeview! Let's get to the news for Saturday, Oct. 30.

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First, today's weather: Breezy in the morning. High: 57 Low: 46.

Here are the top stories today in Lakeview:

1. A Lakeview teacher who died of COVID-19 is being remembered with a memorial street sign near Funston Elementary School this week. Long time Chicago Public Schools teacher Olga Quiroga was 58 when she died after contracting the virus in October 2020. (Block Club)

2. A proposal for a new playground at Lakeview’s Nettlehorst Elementary School is in the running to be part of a $10 million grant project. The school on North Broadway has “old equipment and a faulty playing surface” on its current playground. Finalists for the Chicago Works Community Challenge initiative will be announced later this year; work would begin in 2022. (Block Club)

3. Illinois lawmakers finally approved the state’s new legislative map early Friday morning. Gov. J.B. Pritzker still needs to sign off on the map, the third attempt at drawing the state’s congressional districts based on 2020 census data. (WTTW)

4. Evanston-based Smylie Brothers Brewing Company “stealthily” opened a new Lakeview location this month after two years of construction, pandemic delays and staffing shortages. The new brewpub offers Texas-style barbecue at 3827 N. Broadway. (Eater)

5. More than 348,000 new COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in Illinois this week, according to state health officials. The Illinois Department of Public Health reports that more than 15.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in the state since December 2020. (NBC5)

Today in Lakeview:

• Visit Osmium Coffee Bar, named one of Chicago’s “20 Essential Coffee Shops” this week. (6 a.m.)
• “The Annual Pumpkin Party” returns to Gallagher Way. (1 p.m.)
• “Hotel Transylvania" screens outside Wrigley Field. (3 p.m.)
• Montrose Saloon offers a full two-day lineup of cover bands. (8:30 p.m.)
• Music Box Theatre presents "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." (11:59 p.m.)

Lakeview Patch Notebook

• It’s the final day to participate in the Roscove Village Ghostly Gus Scavenger Hunt. (Chamber)
• Chicago’s haunted house workers are celebrating the return to work. (BCC)
• The co-founders of East Lakeview business Lunge Ladies are featured in this month’s edition of Chicago Magazine. (Chicago Mag)
• Renovations are moving forward on the South Side Ramova Theatre, the “sister” establishment to Lakeview’s Music Box. (NBC5)
• A 21-unit mixed-use building on Southport sold this week for $5.2 million. (Chicago Business Journal)

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— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based reporter with seven years of experience writing for entertainment-based publications. She represented FF2 Media for five years at film festivals across the U.S., from Sundance to Austin. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As Editor-in-Chief of the Lewis University campus newspaper, she earned honors from The Associated Collegiate Press Association and American Scholastic Press Association. She began working for Patch in 2019.

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