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Photo by bluebike Carpwatch 2010: Not satisfied with the Supreme Court's ruling on the matter, a U.S. Representative from Michigan has introduced legislation to close the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal, named, appropriately, the CARP ACT.Former Chicago Bull Scottie Pippen is learning to…

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Long Room Parties Like It's Y2K

A little history for you from back when I lived on the north side: before the Long Room opened at 1612 W. Irving Park Rd., the space used to be this dive bar called Blue Bird Liquors. Blue Bird Liquors was known for serving hard liquor fast, a liberal ID checking policy, hillbilly regulars,…

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Thursday Afternoon Diversion: Reenacting LOST

In a few weeks, the television show LOST returns with much fanfare for its final season. Many of you may not watch or even care about the show. That's okay. Hopefully, you'll still get a kick out of this video where a fan gets his Italian Long Island family to help him recreate key moments of the…

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Rex Losing Out Off The Field, Too

AP Photo Poor Rex Grossman. He quarterbacks the Bears to the Super Bowl only to be run out of town, watch his back-up Kyle Orton have modest success in Denver, and his heralded replacement ended up doing about the same as Rex (compare Rex's 2006 to Cutler's 2009). Now the Trib reports he's…

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Supreme Court Hands Elections to Corporations

AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File Yesterday, we lamented a little bit about the general state of electoral politics after the special election in Massachusetts. Today, we weep are outraged over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a century old law banning corporations from directly using…

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Thursday Afternoon Diversion: The Way The Late Night Wars SHOULD Be Remembered

Listen, we're mad as hell Conan was bested by Jay -- and doubly so since it's the second time that ten pounds of chin has cut the legs out from under a funnier lanky opponent -- but what's done is done. However, as the years pass, we hope that the animation below rises above the mists of time to…

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CTA Ridership Down In '09

It was the slightest of dips, but a dip nonetheless. CTA ridership was down one percent in 2009 over 2008. Rail ridership was up in '09 by two percent (just over 202 million) while bus ridership was down by three percent (around 319 million rides). But the CTA is upbeat about the small decrease,…

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Highfalutin Fried Chicken

The past several weeks I've been all atwitter about Korean fried chicken. Now it seems that just when you thought the ramen-revolution was here, it looks like it might be short circuited by Bon Chon and Thomas Keller. Last year I lucked out at Ad Hoc and enjoyed 2 helpings of the fantastic fried…

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Erruns - Personal Shopper

Erruns Personal Shopper in Chicago http://erruns.com/

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Chicagoist's "Beer of the Week:" Rock Bottom Barrel-Aged Sticke Alt

As The Stranger once told The Dude, "Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, he eats you." We're still trying to process who ate whom at RB Grille and why someone thought it was a good idea to renovate a sizable part of perfectly functioning brewpub into a lukewarm bistro. At least…

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CTA Cuts are Coming

Photo by Senor Codo. Significant bus and train service cuts and employee layoffs and are still set to begin on Feb. 7 for the CTA, despite an offer it made to labor unions today. The CTA offered to reduce the impact of the cuts in two weeks if its employees give back the 3.5 percent pay raise…

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Chicago News Co-op Gets Bullish on Local Coverage

After barely two months of existence, the Chicago News Cooperative stands out for both journalistic and business reasons. For one thing, it quickly found a steady, prestigious client for its work: the New York Times. It's also that rare start-up that actually managed to attract working…

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Do This: NAHA's "Winter Doldrums" Cocktail Dinner

Speaking strictly for ourselves, this has been one tame winter. Cabin fever? Not a problem; we've been going out nightly with simply some fleece and a windbreaker. But it's still tea weather and NAHA has one sweet cocktail dinner ready to go Tuesday. While Carrie Nahabedian handles the food…

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Authentify

Out of Band (OOBA) Multifactor Authentication

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More Ways To Help Haiti

Still looking for a way to help relief efforts in Haiti? Almost every major television and radio station in the Chicago area is participating in today's Chicago Helps Haiti Relief Drive. Donations will go to the American Red Cross's efforts to help Haiti. ABC 7 has a full list of details of how…

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