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Prisoner's Dilemma: Should a Chicago Alderman Relish His Opposition to Felony Franks?

Marilia Duffles | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Hot Dogs, Chicago, Slavery, Social Ills, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Frederick Douglass, Felony Franks, Jimmy Andrews, Chicago City Council, Barack Obama, Robert Fioretti, Felons, Chicago News

Leave it to a Wall Street Journal story this week about a Chicago alderman's opposition to Jimmy Andrews' Felony Franks -- a hot dog joint that hires ...

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Chicago Bookstore Doing Things Differently

Publishers Weekly | Claire Kirch | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Independent Bookstores, Chicago, Bookstores, Books, Chicago Bookstores, Barbara's Bookstore, Booksellers, Books News

Considering that in 1967 Don Barliant bought a four-year-old Chicago bookstore largely to provide some "diversion" from his day job as a practicing at...

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Hiroshima 2020?: City Reportedly Considering Bid For Summer Olympics

Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Olympics, Chicago, Hiroshima Olympics, Hiroshima Summer Olympics, Hiroshima 2020, Hiroshima, Summer Olympics, Japan, Rio De Janeiro, World News

The Japanese city of Hiroshima is considering a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic games, according to Kyodo News and Japan Today. Up to 140,000 people ...

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Why Obama Doesn't Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, Or the Olympics Rap

William Bradley | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson, Iran, Tony Blair, London, Teddy Roosevelt, Tokyo, Madrid, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago, Al Gore, Olympic Games, Iraq, Israel, China, Cairo, Copenhagen, World News

Just as I never thought that Obama would win the Olympics for Chicago, it never occurred to me that he would win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

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Actor Jeffrey Wright on Chicago's Loss of the Olympic Bid And Health Care

Liz Glover | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Health Care Reform, Jeffrey Wright, Chicago Olympics, Health Care, Chicago, Politics News

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Quigley Delivers Top Ten Reasons Chicago Is World's Best City To Congress

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Quigley Top Ten, Mike Quigley, Video, Second City, Chicago, Daniel Burnham, Cubs Fans, Chicago Neighborhoods, Chicago News

U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley took a page from David Letterman Tuesday night, delivering a Top Ten list from the floor of Congress of his "Reasons Chicago is...

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Youth Violence in America: How Can We Stop It?

The Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.07.2009 | Impact

Read More: Violence, Youth Violence, Education, Arne Duncan, Chicago, Eric Holder, Impact News

Two members of President Obama's cabinet met with Chicago mayor Richard Daley and school officials today, as well as parents and students from the nei...

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Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: A.J. Liebling, Chicago Olympics, David Mamet, Saul Alinsky, Sara Paretsky, Gloria Steinem, Herman Hesse, Chicago, Books News

Chicago is an Olympian city when it comes to literature and the arts. And what better time than now to remind us? Here's a sampling of some of those triumphs of the sedentary.

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Oct. 5, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Letterman, Comcast Acquisition Nbc, Lamaor Odom Khloe Kardashian Marriage, New York City Election, Roman Polanski, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago, Bernie Madoff, President Obama Copenhagen, Politics News

Entertainment headlines dominate week, thanks to Letterman and Polanski. Will Letterman's philandering help or hurt ratings? Will Polanski be extradited to US? Inquiring minds want to know.

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The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Distrt of Columbia, Second Amendment, National Rifle Association, District of Columbia v. Heller, Chicago, Gun Control, Constitution, Nra, Heller Decision, Guns, Politics News

Although the Chicago handgun ban Supreme Court case involves interesting constitutional issues, even if Chicago loses, such a ruling is unlikely to prove a serious threat to state and local gun regulation across-the-board.

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Republicans: The Party of Whiners

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Gop, President Obama, Chicago, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics News

Republicans have perfected their shrill and tuneless whining into an art form. In place of Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," we now have the GOP's "Book of Lamentations."

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Obama Will Also Lose the Afghani Olympics

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Obama, Chicago, Ioc, Vietnam War, Olympics, Foreign Affairs, No Games Chicago, Cuba, World News

Team Obama needs -- as the International Olympics Committee has just done -- to be continually reminded that the rest of the world is not an American kick ball.

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USA Wins Olympic Naivete Gold; Media Leads Off, Obama Runs Anchor

Mike Hegedus | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media

Read More: American Samoa, Abc, Ioc, Minnesota, Rush Limbaugh, Olympics, Chicago, Lake-Placid, Nbc, Fox, Lindsey Graham, Cbs, Denver, Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, Msnbc, USA Hockey, Cnn, Oprah Winfrey, Tsunami, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

Chicago was never the favorite, even if Oprah thought it was. All it takes is a quick understanding of how the IOC votes, who the 100 IOC voters are, and which way the international wind is blowing.

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Why It's Good for Obama the Olympic Committee Didn't Pick Chicago

Roger Wolfson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympics, Chicago, Copenhagen, Obama, Afghanistan, Health Care, Presidency, Democrats, Ioc, America, Politics News

It benefits a President to realize he can lose. It benefits a President to realize the stakes are real and failure - real, abject failure - is an option decidedly in play.

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Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: 80, Chicago, Spiro Agnew, Eighty Percent, Reform, South America, Alan Grayson, DC City Council, Dc, Charles Schumer, Death Panel, Die Quickly, Grayson Transcript, William Safire, Floor Speech, Midotw, Sexual Harassment, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Don't Get Sick, Health Care, Kenneth Feinberg, Reid, Tarp, Abortion, Public Option, Grayson Speech, Democrat, Letterman, Congress, Pay Czar, Democrats, Barack Obama, Schumer, Mddotw, Child Rape, Health, Harry Reid, Vacation, Nixon, Bonuses, Polanski, Gay Marriage, Healthcare, Senate, David Catania, Ben Nelson, Cloture, President Obama, Sex Scandal, Washington, Filibuster, Moral Relativism, Obama, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Grayson, Republican, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Paranoid Delusions, Rio, Roman Polanski, Salaries, Rape, House, Copenhagen, Nelson, Consensual, Olympics, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Sex, Columbus Day, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Troubled Assets, David Letterman, Agnew, Safire, Feinberg, Catania, Politics News

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

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Obama Blows the Olympics

Guy T. Saperstein | Posted 12.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama, Cheney, Olympics, United Nations, Chicago, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, Rio 2016, 2016 Olympics Chicago, Chicago 2016, Comedy News

Losing the Olympics to Rio de Janeiro just shows that Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the Republicans have been right all along. Relying on reasoning, discussion and goodwill is bullshit.

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Brazil Beats America And Wins Olympic Gold; Republicans Dance In The Streets

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

You know we're in trouble when a major political party openly roots for its own country to lose, as Republicans did for President Obama's bid to win the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.

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Droppin' Out, A Song For Derrion Albert

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gang Violence, Schools, Derrion Albert, Black on Black Crime, Chicago, Politics News

Here's a music video I did last year with students that I used to teach. Many of the students I taught were involved in gangs. When I saw Derrion A...

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Thank You, Mr. President

Joe Scarborough | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe Scarborough, Chicago, Barack Obama, Morning Joe, Olympics, 2016 Olympics, Joe Scarborough Olympics, Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro-Brazil, Chicago Olympics, Chicago 2016, Media News

Count me as one conservative who is disappointed that President Obama's hometown will not be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.

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Chicago Blues

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Obama, Chicago, Olympics, 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, 2016 Rio Olympics, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Ironically, the city most known for its hardball politics couldn't overcome the internal politics of the Olympic Committee to make it past the first round of voting for the 2016 Games.

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Olympic Athletes At Springs Training Center "Bummed" By IOC's Chicago Snub

The Denver Post | John Meyer | Posted 12.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Olympic Training Facility, Chicago, Rio De Janeiro, Cheryl Haworth, Copenhagen, Colorado, Obama, Colorado Springs, Olympics, Denver News

COLORADO SPRINGS -- About 100 Olympic athletes and staff were stricken with shock and silence this morning when International Olympic Committee presid...

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Gunning for Chicago

Mike Quigley | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Guns, Handgun Ban, Chicago, Second Amendment, United States vs. Miller, Court Cases, Supreme Court, Mcdonald vs. City of Chicago, Legal News, Gun Rights, Chicago News

The Supreme Court has agreed to review McDonald vs. City of Chicago, a case that challenges whether or not our local handgun ban is legal. It is a development that deeply concerns me.

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Chicago, Obama, the Olympics, and the Murder of Derrion Albert

Kevin Powell | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: 2016 Olympics, Derrion Albert, President Obama, Chicago, Teen Violence, Obama Chicago Olympics, Barack Obama Olympics, Obama Olympics, Chicago Murder, Chicago News

Chicago does not deserve the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. What the people of Chicago deserve is a domestic Marshall Plan -- an action agenda that will, once and for all, deal with the city's problems.

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Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid and the School Children Killings

Charles Butler | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: 2016, Politics, Black America, Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Barack Obama, Chicago 2016, Michelle Obama, Chicago News

It seems to me that President Obama and Mayor Daley are more concerned about securing the Olympics for the city of Chicago than the safety of the CPS students in the city.

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Obama Trip To Copenhagen Sparks Olympic-Sized Derangement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Chicago Olympic Bid, Media Criticism, Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Obama Chicago Olympics, Obama Olympics, Obama Copenhagen, Politics News

Of course, if you are not concerned about the awesomely ruinous opportunity cost to safety and prosperity that a brief jaunt to Denmark represents, surely you are worried about all the Chicago Machine Olympic corruption.

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