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Photo by D-J-C Illinois has made the next move in the game of chess over the Asian Carp Crisis. The State House voted today to limit those free CTA rides for seniors; seniors whose income comes in above a certain threshold will have to pay half-fare. Religious leaders enter the video…

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Seven Generations Ahead

A farm to school program in Chicago.

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Bowles Begins The Grahamwich Soft Seduction

You're such a tease, GEB. For the uninitiated, Grahamwich is the long-proposed sandwich shop cum greasy spoon Graham Elliot Bowles has been working on seemingly forever. If the website is to be believed, Bowles is targeting a spring opening.

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CTA Attack Suspects Have Charges Upgraded to Hate Crime

Photo by p2wy Three men accused of attacking another man on the CTA Red Line probably thought they were home free after a judge at Cook County Criminal Court dismissed their misdemeanor assault charges yesterday. Instead, it turned out their troubles have just begun -- upon leaving the…

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Quinn To Illinois: Help Us Solve The Budget Crisis (Online)

As we mentioned yesterday, Illinois is on the verge of a big financial fail and has been for quite some time. Today, Governor Pat Quinn’s office launched a website to show the dire straits we’re in and ask the people of Illinois for help. According to the site, almost three-quarters…

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Art Smith Media Saturation Wednesday

He's got a new cookbook to promote, was recently named the 2010 inductee into the Chicago Culinary Museum Chefs Hall of Fame and he's dropped 90 pounds thanks to cutting out sugars and exercising. Both daily newspapers have in-depth profiles on Art Smith today. Chris Borelli's writeup of Smith…

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Chicago News Cooperative - New Chef Will Help Pastry Level to Rise - NYTimes.com

"The pedigree, and Mr. Zimmermann’s deft touch with a baguette, made him such an attraction that the Loop school pursued him for four years. That he chose to give up his job as “the little baker of my village,” as he put it in a recent e-mail translated from French, is a testament to…

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Lifeline Theatre’s Mrs. Caliban Gives Us The Heebie Jeebies

photo of Brenda Barrie and Peter Greenberg by Suzanne Plunkett One of the best pieces of advice we’ve been given regarding theatrical criticism is this: approach the piece on its own level. To give an elementary example: it’s not fair to see a Shakespeare play and complain that the…

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Humpday Diversion

Reading Rainbow has since passed on but that doesn't mean we can't still enjoy their recommendations.

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Stay-Home World Tour Stop #3: Tuva

Photo of Huun Huur Tu from Old Town School of Folk Music's website Our next stop on the Stay-Home World Tour is Tuva, a small Russian republic that sits on a plateau between Siberia and Mongolia, as Huun Huur Tu plays a pair of shows this Friday night at the Old Town School of Folk Music. …

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