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No Talent Like Chicago Talent
Can you imagine a public radio station announcing that its own city has no talent? That's just what WBEZ Chicago Public Radio did last week.
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The Coldest Winter I Ever Saw Was the Winter I Spent in Chicago
If you've ever wondered what it might be like to experience hell freezing over, let me tell you about this winter in Chicago.
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Chicago Needs Neighborhood Councils
Legislatively mandated neighborhood councils would help Chicagoans finally fight City Hall and win. They exist elsewhere. They could exist here.
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What I Told the Chicago Community Trust about Community
Today the Chicago Community Trust asked several dozen local influencers--including me--to suggest ways to improve our communities. Here's what I told them.
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Chicago Winter for Professionals Only
Chicago winter is about to drag the city below zero for 48 hours. If you think that sounds like a weather emergency, chances are you live somewhere else.
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Maybe Rachel Shteir Was Right
Every Chicagoan has a list in their head of friends and family who left this city to be successful in other places. But does everyone leave willingly, or does Chicago not understand the value of holding on to its own talent?
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Not My Father's Cyclone
It took me eight years to finally visit Six Flags Great America. Imagine my surprise to find the Coney Island Cyclone sitting in the middle of the Chicago suburbs.
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Milwaukee Tourism Blows It Again in Chicago
Two years ago, I faulted Milwaukee's tourism office for not understanding their audience: Chicagoans. This summer, Brew Town has once again plastered Chicago's buses and 'L' trains with travel ads. Guess what they still don't understand?
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The New View from Here (VIDEO)
When I moved eight miles north from downtown Chicago, I traded in one spectacular high-rise view for another. Here's a set of videos to show how living across from the Loop compares to living on the edge of Lake Michigan--in all its inland-sea glory.
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A Gang in Every Alley
Every day for years living in downtown Chicago, I knew I was missing out on locally engaging with my city and fellow inhabitants therein. But I didn't know just how much I missed that kind of ordinary engagement until I moved to Edgewater.
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Illinois to Disabled: Quality of Life Is Elsewhere
This month, the Chicago Community Trust's Persons with Disabilities Forum announced surprising findings regarding the quality of life the disabled can expect to enjoy in Illinois. In short: not much.
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Dominick's Just for U Aimed at...1990s Web Users?
Free food is a hard thing to turn down in a recession. But one month using Just For U, Dominick's new electronic coupon website, is a few weeks too much. I appreciated the gift cards I received from Dominick's PR firm to try out the service. But the clunky, outdated website and lack of a real-time m