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Chicagoans enjoy the spooky season, step up to support the rights of the homeless and more in our best photos of the last week.

Shara Washington cooks and delivers as many as 60 meals for homeless people around Chicago, four days a week.

“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long, long time,” Grifol said.

South Shore was long seen as a “first-house neighborhood” for middle-class residents, and it saw one of its favorite daughters go to the White House as first lady. Residents now hope the nearby Obama Presidential Center will make it “an area where people want to move into.”

Dia de Muertos celebrated with love, longing, food.

Democratic state Comptroller Susana Mendoza and state Treasurer Michael Frerichs are facing challenges from Republicans Shannon Teresi and Tom Demmer and Libertarians Deirdre McCloskey and Preston Nelson.

Children decorate pumpkins and sugar skulls in anticipation of Halloween on Monday and Día de los Muertos on Tuesday.

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Chicago kicked off Halloweek, over 100 early voting sites opened for the Nov. 8 general election, and a Kanye West mural was painted over in the West Loop in our best photos of the week.

Newly released autopsy results show the primary cause of death for all three women was “environmental heat exposure due to hot residential building during heat-related weather event.”

Andy Robledo said the $350+ tents are necessary to help homeless people survive the winter while they wait on a long city list for permanent housing.