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Photo by lindaybanks The Cook County Board agreed to pay a total of $525,000 - in installments - to former death row inmate Leroy Orange as a result of a wrongful conviction lawsuit. Orange has already received $5.5 million from the City. The Board also approved a $108 million…

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Huge Tuition Hike Possible At U Of I

The State of Illinois' budget problems are spreading to the University of Illinois which could see a tuition hike of as much as 20 percent for incoming freshman next year. The state owes the school almost $500 million, according to interim school president Stanley Ikenberry. Ikenberry said the…

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Reports Differ Slightly On Topic Of Bias In CTA Cuts

Photo by rockistani. Union leaders and the Rev. Jesse Jackson claimed last week that the CTA cuts impact poor and minority communities on the South Side more harshly than communities on the North Side. The CTA, of course, responded that bus and rail lines travel through many different…

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A Look Inside Chicago Animal Care and Control

Photo by Renee Rendler-Kaplan. Cherie Travis, Chicago’s recently minted Commissioner of Animal Care and Control has been bringing some new ideas to an office that was once the butt of political jokes. Travis, who also teaches Animal Law at both DePaul and Northwestern law schools and…

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Do This: Purple Asparagus' Fifth Annual Family Dinner

Reserve your spot now for the Fifth Annual Family Dinner by Purple Asparagus being held on Saturday, March 20th at Dawali Mediterranean Kitchen, from 2:30-5:00 PM. The dinner will some of feature Chef Amer's favorite home-style dishes including: Fasoulia- green bean and lamb stew, hummus,…

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CIMM Fest: Burning

This is part of Chicagoist's coverage of the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, which runs March 4-7. We find that live performance recordings tend to be hit or miss. Half a concert's mojo is based on the fact that you are there, in the flesh, able to absorb all the intricacies…

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Tuesday Afternoon Diversion: A History Of Olympic Pictograms

The Winter Olympics may be over, but this awesome New York Times feature on the history of those pictograms keeps thoughts of winter gold fresh.

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Rockin' Our Turntable: Be Nice

Image via Be Nice's MySpace With the superabundance of synthpop and indie electronic acts out there, music seems to be becoming more and more over-mechanized and detached from human emotion. So it's refreshing when an artist like Justin Cancelliere comes along. He's a solo musician new to…

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Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center

Chicago Finance, Loans, Capital, Resource Center, Consulting, Entrepreneur, Small Business

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Baconfest Chicago Chefs Announced

Like a thief in the night, Baconfest Chicago is sneaking up on us. The Baconfest triumvirate has announced the list of 24 chefs cooking for the April 10 event at Stan Mansion in Logan Square. If these chefs, many of whom already pimped their wares at the Baconfest October pro cookoff at the…

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Another "Smashing Pumpkins" Song Released Into The Wild

Look, we don't even have the energy to make the effort to knock the stuff Billy Corgan is putting out any more, so if you're actually interested you can grab the latest track he's releasing under the Smashing Pumpkins' name, "A Stitch In Time," below. Sigh. MP3: The Smashing Pumpkins "A…

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