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United Airlines' Second Golden Marketing Opportunity: United Breaks Guitars, Song 2

Andrew Cherwenka | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: United Breaks Guitars Song 2, Social Media, United Breaks Guitars, United Airlines, Marketing, Internet, Social Networking, Media News, United Airlines Guitar Song, Chicago, Media News
Andrew Cherwenka

What if United put its best baggage handlers on drums and its best customer service reps on the tambourine? They could have in-house legal counsel singing backup.

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David Hoffman To Resign Inspector General Post And Run For Senate

NBC Chicago | Posted 09.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Daley Administration, Inspector General, Senate, Illinois, David Hoffman, Chicago, Chicago News

Chicago's Inspector General, David Hoffman, is close resigning his post in the Daley administration so that he can run for U.S. Senate, sources say....

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Daley To Admit Parking Deal Got "Screwed Up," Spent Too Much Time On Olympics

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Olympics, Chicago, Mayor Daley, Chicago Parking Meters, Chicago Olympics, Richard Daley, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago News

Mayor Daley will acknowledge tonight that his administration "totally screwed up" the transition to private control of the city's 36,000 parking meter...

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Teen Sex Headline Abuse

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Boston, Children, Health, Chicago, San Antonio, Science, Teen Sex, Media, Sexuality, Adolescents and Sex, Media News
Philip N. Cohen

Early sexual activity is risky for adolescents. But, despite what you might have read in today's headlines, sex at age 12 is not the norm for poor children.

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Premature Anti-Fascist

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Anti-Fascist, Free Market Capitalism, Capitalism, Bernard Knox, Dr. Hilkevitch, Chicago, Living News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

I first spied Dr. Hilkevitch on the corner of 51st and Woodlawn, at the bus stop for the #2, from Kenwood to downtown Chicago. It was 1989, my first year as a graduate student in clinical psychology at Northwestern.

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Chicago Shuts Down City Government On Monday To Save Money

CBS 2 | Posted 09.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: State Budget Constraints, State Budgets, Economic Crisis, Chicago Closed, Recesession, Chicago, Chicago City Goverment, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago City Goverment Closed, Chicago Budget, Chicago News

If you planned to check out a library book, visit a city clinic or have your garbage picked up on Monday, you're out of luck. The City of Chicago wil...

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A Chance to Change

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Animals, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Michael Vick, Dogfighting, Chicago, Animal Cruelty, Michael Vick and the HSUS, At-Risk Youth, Hslf, Hsus, Michael Vick Chicago, Chicago News
Michael Markarian

On Chicago's South Side, Michael Vick spoke to at-risk youth and urged them not to get involved in dog-fighting, telling kids from personal experience not to go down this dead-end path.

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The Push to the Finish Continues

Patrick Ryan | Posted 09.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, Chicago, Columbian Exposition, Chicago 2016, Chicago News
Patrick Ryan

If we win the Games, the financial and social benefits generated would be tremendous--jobs, economic development, affordable housing, improved parks, and sports programs for thousands and thousands of kids.

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Jerry Springer Joins "Chicago" On Broadway

NewYorkology | Posted 09.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Jerry Springer, Jerry Springer Chicago, Chicago, Chicago on Broadway, Broadway, Broadway New York, Chicago Jerry Springer, Home News

Talk-show host Jerry Springer will take on the role of shady lawyer Billy Flynn in Broadway’s “Chicago,” according to Telecha...

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Arriving in 2011: The Perfect Museum for Las Vegas

Ellen Sterling | Posted 09.04.2009 | Style

Read More: St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Mayor Oscar Goodman, Chicago, Bugs Moran, Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, Mob Museum, Las Vegas, Bugsy Siegel, Style News
Ellen Sterling

The latest only-in-Las Vegas cultural offering is the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement -- the very site of the museum has a bit of mob-related history of its own.

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Weekend Off?

Brian Dickie | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Christopher Bell, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Music Man, Passion, Francesco Milioto, Chicago Cultural Center, Acis and Galatea, Grant Park Orchestra, New Millennium Orchestra, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Art, Chicago, Orchestra, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

Their utterly delightful, spectacles and all, Marian/Galatea was Amy Conn. The show is worth it for her alone. But for much else as well.

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Black Children and Adults Face Family Barriers

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, Black Families, Children, Demography, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Deportation, New York, Prison Population, Black-Children-and-Learning, Life Chances, Black Fathers, Life Challenges, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

A measure of the society's meritocracy is the extent to which advantage and disadvantage are passed from parents to children.

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Mark Kirk and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Summer

Senate Guru | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Military Regulations, Mark Kirk, Chicago, Economy, Alexi Giannoulias, 2010 Senate Races, Senate, Illinois, Il-Sen, Politics News
Senate Guru

Mark Kirk hasn't had a single good thing to point to, but he has had a whole lot of "D'oh!" come his way, and largely of his own doing.

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Chicago Bullying

Bob Giloth | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Political Machines, Seattle, Mayor Harold Washington, Greg Nickels, Chicago, President Barack Obama, Chicago News
Bob Giloth

The "Chicago" epithet has been dogging Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels almost since the day he took office.

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CPS Planned Secret Job-Fair

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 08.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cps, Chicago, Ron Huberman, Cps Job Fair, Chicago Public Schools, Cps Jobs, Chicago News

It turns out the rumors were true: CPS recruiters were planning to hold a "secret" job fair for invited guests only....

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Vieux Farka Toure on The Interview Show (VIDEO)

Mark Bazer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bazer, Vieux Farka Toure, French, Africa, Hideout, Mali, Chicago, World Music, Ali Farka Touré, Fondo, Entertainment News
Mark Bazer

Guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, son of Malian music legend Ali Farka Toure, stopped by The Interview Show at The Hideout while on tour to promote his new CD, Fondo.

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Mayoral Control of Schools: The New Tyranny

Gerald Bracey | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tyranny, Arne Duncan, Chicago, Michael Bloomberg, Joel Klein, Propaganda, Mayoral Control, Democracy, Failure, Education Reform, New York, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

School boards are fractious and try to micromanage. They are amateurs and prisoners of deeply rooted school bureaucracies. But do mayors do better?

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Honduras... The Big Backstory

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iran-Contra, Otto Reich, Chicago, Havana, Arias, Obama, Ros-Lehtinen, South America, Ortega, China, Organization of American States, Iran, Oas, Zelaya, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Harry Potter, Panama Canal, Nicaragua, Bill Clinton, Hugo Chavez, Mara Salvatrucha, Latin America, Kremlin, Venezuela, Hugo Llorens, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Gangs, Hutchinson Whampoa, Cuba, Soto Cano, War on Drugs, Palmerola, Sandinista, Dea, Mossad, World News
Eric Ehrmann

The White House denounced the action in Honduras as "illegal." But that call requires Washington to cut off all but humanitarian aid and could jeopardize the big Soto Cano base outside Tegucigalpa.

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Chicago Native Helps Homeless Dogs, Victims Of The Recession

The Huffington Post | Stephanie Harnett | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Community Service, All for Good, Kennel, Chicago, Boxer, Walking Dogs, California, Animal Shelter, Unemployment, Volunteering, Dog Walking, Service, Volunteer, Foreclosure, Dog, Good for All, Dogs, Sharpay, Living News

Kara Severson knows that victims of foreclosure come in all breeds. Breeds of dog, that is. Severson volunteers at a no-kill animal shelter in Chicago...

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A City Approves of Lesbians in Love

Jennifer Vanasco | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York

Read More: The Balanced Life, Relationships, Lesbian, Chicago, Gay, Gays, Love, New York, Gay Marriage, New York News
Jennifer Vanasco

And we ARE in love - we are wildly, crazily, insanely in love, though it's been more than nine months since we started dating.

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Get To Know The Gyro

New York Times | David Segal | Posted 08.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Gyro History, Food, Gyro Ingredients, What Is a Gyro, Gyro, Chicago, Style News

SHOUTING over the hiss and screech of an assembly line, Chris Tomaras described the feat of food engineering that made him rich. "The trick," he yell...

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A Second City Warning to Obama

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Second City, Uninsured, Underinsured, Chicago, Political Communication, Cost Control, Rationing, Health Care Reform, Political Satire, Obama Community Organizer, Morality, Obama, Universal Health Care, Republicans, Chicago News
Michael L. Millenson

The fact that Second City comics in the heart of Chicago are successfully playing to GOP-fueled fears of rationing should raise a bright red warning flag at the White House.

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Four Steps to Save Publishing, by the Unpublished

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Ben Hecht, Chicago, Media, New York Times, Washington Post, Publishers, Huffington Post, Journalism, Newspapers, Molly Ivins, Twitter, Hollywood, James Thurber, Dorothy Dix, Ernest Hemingway, Advertising, Economy, Media News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

The collective naval-gazing of reporters and publishers far exceeds the outcry when free downloads upended the music industry and streaming video tanked television ratings, because when a crisis hits the writers it's what we write about.

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From Tallest to Most Efficient

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Business News, Sustainability, Sears Tower, Leed, Green Buildings, Chicago, Green News
Jonathan A. Schein

The owners of the Sears Tower have announced plans to upgrade the building for sustainability, which will make it the tallest building in the western hemisphere to undergo such an overhaul to date.

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The 10 Most Heavily Discounted Housing Markets

US News and World Report | Luke Mullins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Housing Market, Manhattn, Chicago, Housing Prices, Los Angeles, Real Estate, Miami, First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, Business News

As the historic real estate bust continues to gut home prices throughout the country, property owners everywhere are scrambling to attract buyers. For...

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