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🥧 A Lima Native Turns Her Hometown's Mob Past Into a Pie-Shop Novel: Kimberly Nixon's historical novel Cutie Pies by the Slice, out since Oct. 6, follows 20-year-old Lila Young, who opens a Main Street pie shop after the 1929 stock market crash and unknowingly ties her business to the mob. The character was inspired by a family friend who laundered money for Lima's mob in the 1930s and was known for her fierce love of pies. 

🍽️ Cleveland Restaurant Week Is Back Nov. 9-21: About 70 independent restaurants offer three-course prix fixe menus for $39 per person from Monday, Nov. 9, through Saturday, Nov. 21, and menus are listed on the Cleveland Independents website. The group marks its 20th anniversary this year, and member Mallorca turns 30 in February. 

🎖️ Cleveland's Veterans Day Parade Is Nov. 11: The Cleveland Veterans Day Parade runs from Cleveland City Hall to Tower City Center's Skylight Concourse, where a celebration from 1 to 4 p.m. features patriotic floats, local performers, marching bands, giveaways and children's activities.

ICYMI: Remember our look at the lakefront's timeline? A year-long demolition of the Browns' stadium is planned to start in July 2029, depending on progress at the new Brook Park stadium, and the first visible construction on the lakefront land bridge is expected in September 2027. The updated vision replaces the stadium with a park the same size and shape as the field. 

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Today's Trivia

Roy Orbison’s last performance, two days before he died in 1988, came at what Cleveland-area venue?

News: Here’s what you need to vote today on Election Day.

By Cleveland Magazine Staff

Polls in Ohio are open until 7:30 p.m. today, and anyone in line by then can still vote. Opening time is 6:30 a.m. Look up your precinct at voterlookup.ohiosos.gov to find your polling place.

• What To Bring: A photo ID that isn’t expired. Accepted options include an Ohio driver’s license, U.S. passport, state ID card, BMV interim ID, U.S. passport card, U.S. military or dependent ID, Ohio National Guard ID or VA ID.

• No ID? You can still cast a provisional ballot, but you must show valid ID to your county board of elections by Nov. 7 for it to count. Provisional ballots are also used when your registration doesn’t match your ID information.

Worth Noting: If you still have a mail ballot, you can deliver it in person or use the secure drop box at your county board of elections by 7:30 p.m. today. More than 40 Cleveland precincts moved this year, so double-check your polling place before you go.

Read the full story.

Talk of the Town

Cuyahoga County is now objecting to cities' tax breaks as a matter of course. Tax-increment financing sends new property tax revenue to a city for 30 years, and the county's chief of staff says it now objects to residential TIF districts to gain leverage. If the county objects and no deal is reached, a city keeps 75% of the new taxes for 10 years and 50% for the next 20, rather than 100% for 30. Orange's mayor calls it a bid for a larger share.  

A Kent State adjunct professor faces a new hearing under Ohio's Senate Bill 1. Bob Russell, who has taught at the university for more than a decade, could lose his job over a student's complaint of bias, and a hearing this week is set to decide his employment. Russell denies the allegations, and a university panel's finding against him was overturned on appeal over unfair procedures.

A strange overnight smell has been keeping Birdtown residents up. Neighbors describe a chemical odor like chlorine or fertilizer seeping into homes at night for about a week, and the health department has placed air-collection canisters in several houses to identify it. No source has been named, though officials and residents are eyeing a nearby industrial park. 

CMSD has put temporary monitors in school parking lots. After dozens of car break-ins, including at Sunbeam Elementary, where nearly all teaching staff called off and classes were canceled, the district stationed 16 monitors who earn $19 an hour. They're not expected to intervene, only to notify law enforcement.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's $135 million expansion opens this month. The 50,000-square-foot addition includes a new entrance through the Haslam Atrium, the lakefront Taylor Family Community Park and Baker Hall, the museum's first dedicated indoor music venue in its 31 years. A community day is slated for Nov. 22. 

Shopping: From the Lobby's holiday pop-up shop opens today.

 By Cleveland Magazine staff

The gift boutique recently celebrated its first anniversary in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood. Now, it's celebrating the merriest time of year with a holiday-themed shop in Ohio City. 

• Shopping Small: From the Lobby has always been dedicated to stocking the wares of small businesses. Its pop-up at 4142 Lorain Ave. in Ohio City will do the same with a festive twist. Gift-worthy products from local makers and artists aim to make it easy to keep holiday shopping affordable, one-of-a-kind and close to home.

• Limited Time Only: After today's grand opening, the Ohio City storefront will operate through Dec. 31. The shop is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 12-6 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 

• A Greater Mission: From the Lobby donates a portion of its profits to In Session, a woman-centered therapy studio.

Worth Noting: The flagship boutique in Old Brooklyn will remain open through the holiday season, in addition to the pop-up, but hours will be limited. 

We shopped at From the Lobby on a budget of $50. See everything that we got at clevelandmagazine.com

Yesterday's Trivia Answer 

The First Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, initially built in 1853, is more commonly known as what? The Old Stone Church

Check back tomorrow for the answer to today's question.

From the Editor

Ohio voters will choose a new governor today, with Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton running, while U.S. Sen. Jon Husted faces former Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Statewide, Issue 3 asks whether to put the photo ID requirement in the Ohio Constitution. In Cuyahoga County, two property tax levies are on the ballot: Issue 10 for developmental disabilities services and Issue 11 to renew and raise the health and human services levy.

Two county charter amendments would shift power between County Council and the county executive. Read our Clevelander’s voting guide, then go vote.

— Ron Ledgard, Managing Editor

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