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Watching The Sun
I will be watching the sun rise tomorrow from the window of a chartered bus, on my way to O’Hare airport to fly to San Francisco. What adventure lies ahead, only God knows, but my travel buddy and I are ready for the challenge. We have some loose plans, but we want it to be a weekend of…
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Chicago May Need National Guard Help
"A child shot nearly every day since June 26" Hey Chicago--it doesn't look like your handgun ban is working, better think of something else.
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Dark Knight - Batman Premiere Photos
From JH.Org A friend goes to the Batman Premiere. They take pictures. They get posted on a blog. Commoners rejoice.
Recycle Glass in Chicago - A Case For Adding IL to The List of States Offering Return Incentives to Recycle
Recycle Glass in Chicago - A Case For Adding IL to The List of States Offering Return Incentives to Recycle Submitted by GG on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 21:50 aluminum bottle chicago daley energy glass Incentive LCA recycle Recycling Richard M. Daley Stockyard Stout: yum. I quite enjoy this…
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Winter Classic to be Played in Chicago
We all remember the Winter Classic played in Buffalo New Years Day. This year the Winter Classic is making its way to Chicago where the Blackhawks will face off against the Detroit Red Wings at Wrigley Field on January 1, 2009. This is a rivalry of the original six and it will be a heated battle…
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Rock The Bells Preview: Mos Def
Just as I was sitting down to write the third installment in this five part preview of the 2008 Rock The Bells tour, I recalled that the first time I’d ever heard Mos Def was when I was about 16. My friends and I had all just gotten their licenses and I remember riding down the freeway with…
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Jackal, The
Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to…
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Five Days And Counting
We will be moving to Chicago Monday/Tuesday next week. I will drive up with the pups on Monday, HASWOE will fly up Tuesday. Moving company will deliver our stuff on Tuesday. Deliver our stuff to an apartment we signed a lease for on Monday. Well, when I say “we”, HASWOE didn’t…
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Real Estate: Top 10 ‘walkable’ cities have a leg up with gas at $4 a gallon
High gas prices are getting most people down these days — unless, perhaps, they live in San Francisco. The city was named the country’s most walkable, according to a list released on Thursday by Walk Score, a Web site that assigns grades to addresses based on the proximity of amenities…
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Pitchfork Festival Scavenger Hunt
Timeout has a pretty hilarious scavenger hunt card for Pitchfork Festival. Some favorites: Galoshes with a skirt or shorts (no rain) Off-center rat tail Infant in Kanye West shutter shades Pick-up game of four-square I’ve actually seen the four-square breakout on numerous occasions in the…
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WDCB and their Jazz Thursdays
Every week I rave about Chicago radio station WDCB and what they do. I can’t help myself. Here in Chicago, our options are very limited when it comes to listening to jazz on the radio. At one time the local NPR outlet, during the nighttime hours, used to broadcast classic jazz music. Then…
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Macy's - Clothing, Shoes, Bed & Bath, Kitchen, Beauty Brands & Sunglasses
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Ill. Mom Shocked When 6-Year-Old Gets Credit Card - CBS2 Chicago
Ill. Mom Shocked When 6-Year-Old Gets Credit Card CBS2 Chicago, IL - Jun 17, 2008 "How can somebody who is an adult who has a job get a credit card denial, and a child who has no income and no assets get one? I would certainly hope they ...
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Blagojevich: Chicago May Need National Guard Help - News Story - WMAQ | Chicago
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Divorce Happens, Kindness is on Purpose.
... cross posted from our sister site, Chicago Moms Blog. With examples like A-Rod and Christie Brinkley, columns about celebrity divorces are kept full of plenty of dish. Salacious details captivate millions, and speculation is practically a national pastime. But the reality of divorce is…
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Proposal a joke
Is this a serious rumour? Today, Don Brennan of the Ottawa Sun reported a three-way deal involving the Senators, the Kings and the Blackhawks. Sounds somewhat credible right? Well if this proposal actually goes through, then Dean Lombardi should get banned from the hockey world. Here’s the…
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True Story
True Story 16-Jul-08 There’s a story I’ve been meaning to write, a story I want to commit to paper, a true one, one that is different from my other stories and yet uncannily familiar. It’s overflowing with things said and many things left unsaid, happy, sad and everything in between,…
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K’s Turn
I had the honor of photographing my cousin’s wife in an impromptu session involving nothing more than a sheet, an SB-800 flash and her awesome up-for-anything attitude. I couldn’t be more pleased with the results! (Going to Memphis this weekend for a girl’s trip and oh yea, I’m…
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Carnivale Celebration at Akira!
AKIRA North Avenue It’s hard to believe that AKIRA is only six years old. I mean, those red awnings and shopping bags are ALL over town. To celebrate their milestone, the North Avenue stores will be hosting Carnivale this Thursday, the 17th! The event will last from 5-10p and feature…
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Parking Tickets Will Soon Include Photos
Hey Chicago! Enough with the cameras already! First it was blue light cameras in high crime areas. Then it was red light cameras. More recently we found out street sweeper cameras were on the way, possibly followed by snowplow cameras. Today, the Chicago Dept. of Revenue announced it will now…
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Gun Control Wins Again…
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich explained the recent crime problems in Chicago: “Violent crime in the city of Chicago is out of control. I’m offering resources of the state to the city to work in a constructive way with Mayor Daley to do everything we can possibly do to help stop this…
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Sears Tower Skydeck, Chicago attraction-sightseeing from Chicago Traveler
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Fundraiser - Friday July 18th - Mitch’s
Please come to the Team Up For The Teppers fundraiser this Friday, July 18th at Mitch’s Chicago Style Grill. This will be an all day event where 25% of the profits will be donated to the “Team Up For The Teppers” fund. Mitch’s had been very generous to this cause. It is our turn to show…
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Crib Chatter - Flips, Foreclosures, McMansions, New Condos: The Dish On the Chicago Housing Market
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Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote
Today, Adobe gave a sneak peek into Flash Player 10 and showed off the new RTL, multi-column text engine, the new 3D features, and the new bitmap effect scripting language, Hydra.
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Gov: Chicago may get troopers, National Guard -- chicagotribune.com
<sep/>raised the possibility of bringing in state troopers or even the Illinois NationalGuard to help Chicago combat a recent increase in violent crime ..said "violent crime inthe cityof Chicago is out of<sep/>
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TB’s 1st Culinary Award’s
Quote of the Day “Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved indispensable for life. But I go marching on.” George Bernard Shaw Today’s post was inspired by reading “Travel and…
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Staybridge Suites OAKBROOK TERRACE Hotels | CHICAGO-OAKBROOK TERRACE | Welcome
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Coming full circle on Vimeo
Christopher Booker video. Complex history piece on the CHA.
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Crime out of control in Dem-run Chicago; Dem guv offers troopers
Blagojevich[offered to] bring in state troopers or even the Illinois National Guard to help Chicago combat a recent increase in violent crime..Blagojevich said "violent crime in the city of Chicago<sep/>
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Invsco, developer sue each other over Lincoln Park condo project
More high-profile fallout on the Lucien Lagrange high-rise at 2520 N. Lakeview.
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