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The Magnificent Mile - Feel Magnificent

Welcome to Chicago's Magnificent Mile. Where a unique urban experience awaits you!. Featuring four annual events and world-class shopping, dining, lodging and lesiure entertainment, chicago's Magnificent Mile has something for everyone.

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Chris Sims on Policy at the Zero Lower Bound - Economist's View

WHAT WOULD GOOD POLICY BE? It would recognize the need to affect expectations of future inflation. In particular, in models with nominal rigidities the objective of policy is to lift expected values of future inflation. It would recognize that monetary and fiscal policies that affect future…

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Extra, Extra

The Last American Year President Obama called Gov. Quinn to offer his congratulations even as opponent Dan Hynes has yet to concede. The latest in the Drew Peterson hearsay hearing. The TCF Bandit has struck for the 12th time. The mayor of East Chicago was indicted on four corruption…

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Pitchfork Festival Announces 2010 Dates, Tickets On Sale Friday

One of our favorite fans from last week's fest It's on! The Pitchfork Music Festival will take up residence in Union Park this summer from July 16 to 18. Tickets go on sale THIS Friday, February 5, through their website with single-day tickets selling for $40 and three-day passes selling for…

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Donnie Yen Cooks in Iron Monkey

The modern Kung-Fu classic Iron Monkey was on IFC last night. Having recently seen Ip Man, another, newer, Kung-Fu flick featuring the still relatively unknown Donnie Yen I was encouraged to watch it again. My very spicy orange chicken from Wing Hoe a 'happy accident'. It makes me wince for having…

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Revolution Brewing Opens Today

As if you needed another excuse for a beer, Revolution Brewing (2323 N. Milwaukee, 773-227-2739) opens officially in about twenty minutes. The brewpub from Handlebar owner Josh Deth will feature brews from Deth and brewmaster Jim Cibak. The food menu won't be as vegan-friendly as Handlebar's…

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Rahmbo Apologizes For Dropping The R-Word

"And that's when I called them...wait for it...effing retarded! Good one, right?" [via.] Depending on how you look at it, it's gotta be hard to be Rahm Emanuel right now. For his whole life, he's been a foul-mouthed, hard-charging, dead-fish-mailing, happily crass MF'er. And now that he's…

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Sponsored Post: Start Your Journey at Equinox Today

The following post is from our advertiser, Equinox Fitness Clubs. At Equinox Fitness Club's new My Body My Biography site, they're showcasing stories from members whose lives have changed with the help of Equinox. After reading the stories on the site, it's clear that Equinox is more than a…

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Controversy Raised Over City's Towing Contract

Photo by CarusoPhoto Controversy erupted this week when the Daley administration awarded a $31.5 million towing contract to "clout heavy" United Road Towing, who has held onto the business for 20 years despite complaints from aldermen. In 1989, Daley gave the towing contract to Environmental…

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For "Food, Inc." Oscar Nod Big, Oprah Bigger

The show featured clips from the documentary and featured one of the film's stars Michael Pollan urging viewers to spend more time thinking about what they ...See all stories on this topic (via Google Alerts and AlertRank)

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Chicagoist's "Beer of the Week:" Avery "Hog Heaven" Barleywine

Image via Beer Drivel It's prime barleywine season again and it's been a while since we looked at the style. Also we've only looked at one other beer from Avery Brewing. So this week is botha n attempt at playing catchup while revisiting a favorite style. Avery's barleywine, Hog Heaven, is…

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Humpday Diversion: Tony Soprano, Wild Thing

We've already had some swearing today, so why not a little bit more? Taking advantage to the fact they both share James Gandolfini, here's a pretty great mash-up of Where The Wild Things Are and Tony Soprano. Language is, obviously, very NSFW. Thanks, Matt! …

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Highrise Townhome For Sale In South Chicago

Townhouse For Sale In South Chicago

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Sen. Orin Hatch: Guantanamo Bay > Illinois

Thomson Correctional Center (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) At yesterday's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on the sell of Thomson Correctional Center to the federal government, Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) raised the issue of a prison on U.S. Soil as a recruiting tool for al Qaeda.…

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