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There are bad branding strategies. There are Macy's-mothballs-Marshall-Field awful branding strategies. And then there's Willis Group's hubris- and hare-brained idea to rename the Sears Tower. What do you get when you glue a new name on an old icon whose existing monicker has worldwide recognition?
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Like all adopted Chicagoans, from time to time I get told by some other local who doesn't agree with me to 'go back where you came from' if I don't like the way things are done in the Windy City. It's an age-old prejudice that claims being born in Chicago somehow makes you a more authentic Chicagoan
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I've covered some interesting items in the past few weeks on Chicagosphere, my blog about Windy City blogs on the Tribune's ChicagoNow online network. The network is still in beta, but the community is thriving and I'd love you to come be a part of it.
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Even on Chicago's Gay Pride weekend, some queers don't run with the crowd. Such is the case with Jeff Ramone, a Lakeview blogger and licensed massage therapist (a real one, folks) with a sardonic style that doesn't take the status quo--gay or otherwise--for granted.
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I rarely engage with other Chicagoans in the city's seemingly official pasttime of grousing about winter weather. But when it's 90 in the shade, my plaintive side takes a more public turn. No matter how cold the spring, we always face Divine retribution come late June. This city bakes from Gay Pride
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Jenni Prokopy is not to be underestimated. Founder and 'editrix' of ChronicBabe.com, a Chicago-based blog about young women experiencing chronic health issues, since June 2005 she has chronicled her personal journey with persistent illness. Along the way, she's provided messages of hope for young wo
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When mediabistro reported the firing of Scotty Iseri last week, it seemed like a golden era of Windy City videoblogging hijinks might be coming to a close. Last June after seven years as a freelance foley artist (that's sound designer to you and me), Iseri launched Scotty Got an Office Job (SGAOJ),
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We're having some fun now over on Chicagosphere, the blog about Windy City blogs I launched on the Tribune's ChicagoNow blog network last month. If you haven't yet, come on over and check out what I and my fellow CN scribes have been getting up to. Here's a sampling of what I've covered most recentl
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Jasmine Davila is a frank blogger. Occasionally a frankfurter, depending on her mood. For the past nine years (you read that right), she's been scribing News from the Flip Front, her 'multi-blogular' tale of life as a writer, tech geek, TV-obsessed, non-driving, all-around awesome Asian diva living
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Jennifer, scribe of the blog, General Carlessness, is one of those Chicagoans who rides her bike year round and lives to tell the tale. Irrespective of the autumnal weather Chicago's been under since Memorial Day, technically we're in the heart of cycling season. As always, with the coming of allege
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We live in a photogenic city here in the nation's architecture capital. But there's a subset of Chicago bloggers who prefer to snap shots of a seldom-seen Windy City. These photobloggers concentrate on the urban ruins, forgotten buildings, and unsung spaces well off of most people's radar screens. H
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'Most notable of the pre-existing non-Trib blogs that have so far been added are CTA Tattler and Mike Doyle, of Chicago Carless, who is heading up Chicagosphere, a look at the Chicago blog scene.'--Chicagoist