On today’s edition of the Newsroom Temperature Check, Lisa and the crew share their daily stories about a Starbucks discontinued drink, trick or treaters in Des Moines Iowa, and the Menendez mansion. Newsroom Temperature Check is sponsored by American Weathermakers, Heating, Cooling, and Plumbing. They won’t be comfortable until you are.

Hadi Finnerty, Senior Manager of Education & Community Volunteers at Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the claims that Ozempic could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s. While the early studies aren’t exactly promising, the sample sizes aren’t large enough to give definitive results.

Carrie Shepard, reporter for Axios Chicago, joins Lisa Dent to talk about the ballot measures that Illinois voters will see on Election Day. Although they are non-binding measures, they are used to poll how Illinois voters would vote on the issues. One of the three measures that voters will see would require insurance companies to cover IVF treatment.

Dan Cook from moneysupermarket joins Lisa Dent and Lauren Lapka to talk about the scariest movies ever. Cook shares the process that involved heart rate monitors on the movie watchers and the impact that jump scares had on the numbers collected. You can find the full list here.

Jim Chilsen, Communications Director of the Citizens Utility Board, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the projections that show that heating bills in Chicago could double over the next 15 years. If state regulators don’t intervene in the Peoples Gas pipe replacement program, their customers would face price hikes yearly through 2040 and continue to pay for the program’s completion over the following six decades.

Lisa Dent, along with Steve Bertrand, Mary Van De Velde and Kevin Powell, discuss the Flamingo Challenge and how the ability to stand on one leg is correlated to your general health. Rolled out by the NHS in the UK, read more about the research in this HuffPost article.

Terry Savage, nationally syndicated financial columnist and author, joins Lisa Dent to talk about Part D drug plans. Medicare’s drug coverage has been drastically changed for 2025. It’s important to make the right choices to make sure that you stay covered. To check your current Part D coverage, you can visit the Medicare website. The deadline for open enrollment is December 7th. Her full article is here.

On today’s edition of the Newsroom Temperature Check, Lisa and the crew share their daily stories about beekeeping, which states celebrate Halloween the hardest, and Halloween candy rankings. Newsroom Temperature Check is sponsored by American Weathermakers, Heating, Cooling, and Plumbing. They won’t be comfortable until you are.

Eric Gadson, former Pepsi truck driver, joins Lisa Dent to discuss how he and many Pepsi workers were left blindsided by sudden closing of the South Side plant. Gadson and hundreds of other workers were laid off without warning. The plant workers signed a contract earlier this May that left Gadson thinking that things may be too good to be true. Gadson and other former Pepsi employees will be seeking answers from their union later this week.

WGN-TV Weather Producer Bill Snyder joins Lisa Dent to talk about the record-breaking temperatures this week and how rain and colder weather are on the way. The days of warm weather are ending as the temperatures are set for a continual decline as November approaches. Snyder then breaks down just how warm and sunny this October has been, and how we could see 70 degrees in the month of November.