🌱 Today’s Halloween Events + Día de los Muertos On The Southwest Side

Good morning and Happy Halloween! Thanks for checking out today’s Chicago Daily. In your guide to local stories:

• 🚧 Pastor breaks ground for new Woodlawn community center
• 🎨 Meet the poet behind the city’s inspirational sidewalk poems
• 💀 How to celebrate Día de los Muertos on the Southwest Side

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📰 Top 5 stories in Chicago:

1) With one week left of daylight saving time, here’s what you need to know about clocks ‘falling back.’ Daylight saving time will officially end at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, meaning Chicagoans will need to set their clocks back one hour. But could it be for the last time? With the clock ticking on DST, here’s what you need to know about the time change and its future.

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2) He brought Wakandacon to Chicago, now David Barthwell is creating his own world. David Barthwell, 40, is the brain behind Wakandacon, a convention dedicated to everything “Black Panther” that was held at McCormick Place in 2018 and 2019. And he’s looking to resurrect the three-day event next year at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk. But the experience of bringing Wakanda to Chicago left the Oak Park and River Forest High School grad wanting to create a new world of his own—an elaborate computer game slated for release in 2023.

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3) Museum exhibit, 5K and sugar skulls: How to celebrate Día de los Muertos. The popular Mexican holiday, celebrated Oct. 31-Nov. 2, honors and remembers those who have died. If you’re looking for ways to celebrate the centuries-old tradition in Chicago, check out these events on the city’s Southwest Side.

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4) Meet Boots, the poet who leaves inspirational messages on Chicago’s sidewalks. After a 10-year relationship ended, Kimberly Brown began writing poetry as a way to heal her broken heart. Out of spite, she goes by the name “Boots,” the nickname her ex-boyfriend gave to her because of her extensive boot collection. But she isn’t pining for her former flame. Instead, she’s taken her art to the streets. Her short poems about advice, heartache and self-love can be found stenciled in black or purple on sidewalks around Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

5) ‘The city needs some hope’: Pastor Corey Brooks breaks ground for new Woodlawn community center. Pastor Corey Brooks broke ground Saturday, for a new 85,000 square-foot facility he believes will not only revitalize the Woodlawn neighborhood, but provide support services and resources to the community. For almost a year, the Chicago faith leader has campaigned to raise enough money to replace an old motel across the street from his New Beginnings Church with a new community center. So far, he’s raised about $20 million—enough to begin construction—but the total cost of the center is $35 million.

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📌 Today in Chicago:

Sweet Dreams The Halloween Experience at Rizzo’s Bar & Inn (5:00 PM)

• Nightmare On Clark Street Haunted House Experience at Deuces Major League Bar (12:00 PM)
• Edgar Allan Poe Tours at American Writers Museum (3:15 PM)
• Halloween Happy Hour at Estelle’s Cafe & Pub (4:00 PM)
• Amazing Chicago’s Haunted Maze at Navy Pier (5:00 PM)
• The Haxans at Reggies (6:00 PM)
• Haunted Halsted Halloween Parade in Lake View (6:00 PM)
• Witches Brew: Spellbinding Cocktail Experience at Hubbard Inn (6:30 PM)
• Music & Magic at Chicago Magic Lounge (7:00 PM)
• Halloween Trivia at KOVAL Distillery (7:00 PM)
• “Hocus Pocus” at The Emily Hotel (7:00 PM)
• Halloween at Old Crow Smokehouse & Moe’s Cantina – Wrigleyville (7:00 PM)
• Ed Maverick with Claude at Empty Bottle (7:30 PM)
• Kevin Morby, Coco at The Vic Theatre (8:00 PM)
• Just Fine: The Ultimate Mary J. Blige Tribute at City Winery (8:00 PM)
• Halloween Stand Up Comedy Extravaganza at Laugh Factory (8:00 PM)
• Scary Sight at The Promontory (9:00 PM)
• Bad Boy Bill, Boom Boom Room Halloween at Sound-Bar (10:00 PM)

📱 Social chatter:

• Chicago Bears contest: “No tricks, just treats 👀 Like and comment for your chance to win an orange mini helmet! Rules in bio” (Chicago Bears via Instagram)
• Chicago throwback: “1930 – Hyde Park, backside of the Shoreland Hotel.” (Growing up in Chicago via Facebook)
• “Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante’s ‘Inferno'”: “These gruesome heads by Henry Fuseli were inspired by the damned souls in Italian poet Dante’s epic ‘Inferno.’ The expressive studies were engraved as illustrations for Johann Caspar Lavater’s influential book on physiognomy, a popular pseudoscience that assessed an individual’s character based on their outward appearance.” (The Art Institute of Chicago via Facebook)
• Chicago … Cardinals?: “The Cardinals won their last NFL championship in Chicago, in 1947. Why not bring them back to the city of their only success?⁠ ⁠ The Cardinals currently call Glendale, Arizona, home, but they are actually the NFL’s oldest franchise, formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1899 as an amateur team known as the Morgan Athletic Club.” (Chicago magazine via Instagram)
• Día de Muertos: Memories & Offerings: “The Museum will be open late on Tuesday, November 1st from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. It’s the perfect day to see this year’s Day of the Dead exhibition, Día de Muertos: Memories & Offerings.” (National Museum of Mexican Art via Facebook)

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