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Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 29: One Miller High Life Too Many

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Creepy Hug, Second City, Keeping Score in Chicago, Chicago Podcasts, Miller High Life, Podcast, Chicago News
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

A rather crappy week in Chicago: Da Bears suck, suicide strikes Mayor Daley's inner circle and a Steelers fan claims a Bears fan made him blind.

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Second City 50th Anniversary Show: Colbert, Carell Among Star Alumni Returning For Bash

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Second City Alumni, Second City, Second City 50th Anniversary, Jack McBrayer, SCTV Reunion, Second City Anniversary, Second City Reunion, Jeff Garlin, Sctv, Harold Ramis, Chicago News

Mark off Dec. 12 on your calendar. Now. That's the day of Second City's much-anticipated 50th anniversary show "The Second City Alumni: One Night Onl...

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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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Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 23: Does Billy Corgan Really Matter Anymore?

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Frank Main, Second City, Kanye West, Jim Derogatis, Robert Maday, The Second City Unscripted, Billy Corgan, Chicago Podcasts, Keeping Score in Chicago, Mike Thomas, Smashing Pumpkins, Bill Murray, Chicago News
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

What is the Smashing Pumpkin up to with his latest scheme to give away his new songs for free? Sun-Times Rock Critic Jim DeRogatis gets to the bottom of it, plus the scoop on Bill Murray's violent crowd management technique.

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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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Blagojevich Mocks Himself Onstage In "Rod Blagojevich Superstar"

AP | RUPA SHENOY | Posted 07.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Second City, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Show, Blagojevich Second City, Rod Blagojevich Superstar, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn't seem to mind being the butt of a theatrical joke. Blagojevich got in on the joke Saturday evening...

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Blago To Appear In Own Spoof Show "Rod Blagojevich Superstar"

AP | MEGAN REICHGOTT | Posted 07.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Rod Blagojevich, Gilda's Club, Blagojevich Satire, Second City, Rod Blagojevich Superstar, Blagojevich Second City, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the target of comedians' jokes since his arrest and impeachment, is getting in on the laughs wit...

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Our Long Economic Improv Show Has Just Begun

John Marshall | Posted 04.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Improv, Financial Crisis, Second City, Obama, Money, John Belushi, Improvisation, Monetary System, Comedy News
John Marshall

Our improviser-in-chief, Barack Obama, is no stranger to this principle. He's from Chicago, the home of Second City. So while Lincoln is an influence, Belushi must be, too.

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Second City Debuting "Rod Blagojevich Superstar!"

NBC Chicago | Marcus Riley | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago

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With shows like "Between Barack and a Hard Place" and "America: All Better!," Chicago's Second City has been getting more than a few laughs out of loc...

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Canadian Political Crisis: Citizens React With Disgust, Anxiety

Diane Tucker | Posted 07.14.2009 | World

Read More: Second City, Conservatives, Butterfly Ballot, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, George W. Bush, Canada Parliament Shuts Down, Neil Crone, Stephane Dion, Financial Crisis, Diane Tucker, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canadian Financial Crisis, Canadian Reactions Parliament Shutdown, Canadians React to Harper, Sustainability, World News
Diane Tucker

Last week in Canada, three opposition parties united against Prime Minister Stephen Harper, charging he failed to insulate Canada from the global fina...

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Second City Rewriting Show After Blagojevich Arrest

Chicago Tribune | Chris Jones | Posted 01.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Second City Revue, Second City, Second City Rod Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Second City New Show, Blagojevich Second City, Blagojevich Charges, Blagojevich Arrest, America: All Better, Second City Barack Obama, Chicago News

Less than a week before the opening of its new mainstage revue, "America: All Better," Second City has been suddenly confronted by a tsunami: this mor...

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Chicago: Second Again

Howard Wolinsky | Posted 12.13.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, Cardinal Francis George, Chicago Politics, Valerie Jarrett, Second City, Valerie Jarrett Meet the Press, President Obama, The Chicago Way, Mary Mitchell, Second City Complex, Chicago News
Howard Wolinsky

With the election of Barack Obama, the urban orbits have shifted. After Washington, D.C., Chicago has won Second City status once again, based on politics rather than population.

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Get Your Laughs On: T.J. Miller At The Lakeshore Theater

Decider | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Second City, T.J. Miller Chicago, Chicago Standup, Cloverfield, Kids in the Hall, Stand-Up Comedy Chicago, Lakeshore Jumble, T.J. Miller, Lakeshore Theater, Io, Chicago Comedy, Carpoolers, Chicago News

The Colorado-born comic cut his teeth in the Chicago comedy scene rather rapidly: He toured with Second City, performed with iO, and did stand-up at p...

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Obama Leads Chicago's Rise To Power

The Daily Beast | Scott Turow | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Chicago Olympics, Durbin Majority Leader, Dick Durbin, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympics, Hyde Park White House, Barack Obama, Second City, 2016 Olympics, Rahm Emanuel, Jan Schakowsky, David Axelrod, Obama Chicago, Obama White Housem, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Chicago, my hometown, and far more significantly, that of Sen. Barack Obama, appears poised with his election as president--pooh, pooh, pooh!--to beco...

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Weekly Date With Mic for "Siblings of Doctors" Comic

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 10.25.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Sketch Comedy, South Asian Americans, Indian-Americans, 52 Open Mics, Siblings of Doctors, Ranjit Souri, Second City, Chicago Standup, Aziz Ansari, Indian Comedy, Rajiv Satyal, Standup Comedy, Stir-Friday Night!, Chicago News
Naazish YarKhan

If you are of Indian or Pakistani descent, you know the drill. When you grow up you have to be either a doctor, engineer and lately, a computer programmer. If you're anything else, guess what? You're not worth much.

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Second City?

Ina Pinkney | Posted 09.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: INA's, George Lang Corporation, Chicago Restaurants, Second City, Seventies Chicago, Chicago News
Ina Pinkney

Well, maybe when I moved here from New York City in 1974, leaving a rent stabilized apartment on Central Park South, a job with the George Lang Corporation and the best friends and life imaginable.

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