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highsnobiety.com: Leaders 1534 x Reebok Reverse Jam

Chicago's transit system was the inspiration behind the "Leaders1354 Jam". The red, yellow, blue, green<sep/>

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Political Predictor Has Baseball Brain

The blogger/statistician known pseudonymously as “Poblano,” who had developed an uncanny model for predicting election results, revealed himself Friday to be Nate Silver, 30, of Chicago. Silver is already well-regarded for developing a baseball prediction system that yields similarily reliable…

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Special report: Operation Crooked Code | EveryBlock Chicago

This is the first EveryBlock "special report": we researched the recent Chicago bribery indictments and geocoded the addresses and locations in the text. The result is a map of the alleged crimes.

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Extra, Extra

Photo by little pretty The University of Chicago Medical Center will be opening a physicians' office downtown, which the Trib says is "another attempt to compete with Northwestern Memorial Hospital on its home turf." [Trib] A Wisconsin man found what he says is $1,700 in Depression-era…

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FBI Investigating Former Chicago Anchor

Former Chicago news anchor Larry Mendte has been taken off the air from his current gig in Philadelphia pending an FBI investigation into whether Mendte hacked into his former coworker's yahoo e-mail account. Oh, and that coworker is police-puncher, Rich Eisen-e-mailer Alycia Lane. …

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Koons Exhibit Opens at MCA

The Jeff Koons exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art opened on Saturday, which means more from the man who created the museum’s well-known “Pink Panther” sculpture. The modern-art-loving public is crazy for Koons, who throughout his decades-long career has been revered both for his…

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CPS Special Ed Teacher Killed

Erika Prince, 32, was shot and killed yesterday near 87th and Euclid. Prince was a special education teacher at Arthur Dixon elementary school, where she'd taught for the last six years, and she herself was an alumn. Her nine-year-old daughter is an honor student there, too. Prince was shot…

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The City's Gas Price Hotline

Drivers looking to get the "lowest reported gas station prices" can call the city's new hotline at 312-742-4427 or look online. The website is also where the city asks users to report gas station prices.

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Vintage Posters: Boo Syphilis, Yay Goggles

Oh, vintage Chicago and Illinois posters, you always find new ways to surprise and delight us. These are all from Vintagraph, where there's a boatload more. There is an image gallery to this entry which you can view at Chicagoist

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Chicago School

Cartoon for Chicagoist by Tim Daly

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Freelancers, Load Up on Coffee

It looks as though the rumors are true: Starbucks will be making its wifi "free" tomorrow. Of course, there's a catch on that free part: you have to have a Starbucks card, and you only get two hours a day.

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Chicagoist Grills: Stephanie Izard

Like Hawk Harrelson with the White Sox, we've been unabashed homers for Stephanie Izard to win "Top Chef Chicago" here at Chicagoist pretty much since we heard that she was taking part in the show. Her performance thus far — winner of one quickfire challenge and four elimination challenges…

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Sympathy for Daley :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Neil Steinberg

directly relevant to my jweekends, cutting buckthorn, all of mount prospect hates me etc etc. how long do these things stay up? blahhhh depaul posting rampage

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Sad Day For Chicago Legends: Sills, Diddley Die

On the heels of last week's passing of Harvey Korman comes even more bad news for Chicago entertainment legends. First, Paul Sills, Second City co-creator and director of other troupes such as Playwrights and Compass Players, passed away yesterday at the age of 80. As a student at the…

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