Politics
Why state's attorney is the third most important office you can vote for
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First books by local authors—including a former trial lawyer, a traumatized artist, a Cubs fan on Zoloft, a PR agency exec who writes in bars, and a computer programmer who plays bass
The Arts
Gina Frangello had a venture philanthropy firm ready to give her new novel a PR boost. Then her publisher folded.
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Wafaa Bilal on what it's like to be shot at by more than 60,000 people in more than 130 countries
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Drew Ferguson's novel about a gay teenager came together on cocktail napkins.
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Devotion gets tangled up with depression in Michael Glab's diary of the Cubs' 2007 season.
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James Kennedy's 400-page fantasy is the sort of young adult fiction that adults of all ages can get lost in.
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Brief reviews of more local debuts
Music Column
The latest incarnation of Chicago's independent-promoter ordinance may seem relatively harmless, but there's still no reason to let it pass.
Food & Drink Column
What Chicago chefs are doing with the locavore-friendly squash this season
Restaurant Reviews
Eighteen restaurants with seasonal fare
Performing Arts Review
Lookingglass's adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov suggests that all hope for mankind is not lost.
Book Review
Iraq-born artist Wafaa Bilal talks about the piece that turned him into a target for 60,000 online gamers.
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Tonight: Free burrito--if you dress up like a burrito
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John Kass does his best in the Chicago Tribune but can't stifle his fear of creeping tyranny
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Usability rears its unforgiving head in Philly voting booths.
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11/3-24: Lunchtime meditation sessions at Gold Coast spa
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Why we said what we said on our Obama cover.
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Is anyone else looking forward to the showdown between 2-6 Michigan and 2-6 Purdue?
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The 18th Ward ice cream truck ban sails through the City Council.
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Breaking news: offspring of Magas endorses Obama.
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Friday: Spooky Science at the Museum of Science and Industry
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As Seals battles Kirk: lush weather, free coffee, record turnout
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Bootleg Obama t-shirt watch.
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Friday: The Exquisite City opens; Tim Tuten offers tours
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The Sun-Times updates the story of Alderman Richard Mell, Tony Rezko and the deal that brought the Home Depot to Kimball and Addison.
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Production studio liquidation this weekend.
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Mick Dumke reports from the polls.
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Polish reedist Mikolaj Trzaska makes his Chicago debut this week in two very different contexts.
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As the polls get ready to close, Mick Dumke reports from Back of the Yards.
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Tonight: Dia de los Muertos party
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The Obama campaign's closing move: we're almost all part of the working poor.
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11/3-25: Admission to the Shedd's original galleries
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Leave the Spire hole alone!
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There's no Obama on the horizon in Europe, the AP reports.
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Impromptu Pit Er Pat show at Rainbo tonight
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Tonight: Free screening of "Thelma & Louise" at Columbia College's Cinema Slapdown
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11/5-16: Free production of John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves"
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Polls favor Obama, but there's one variable that may constitute a 'nightmare scenario' for pollsters and Democrats.
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The proposed 18th Ward ban on ice cream trucks goes before the City Council next week.
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It's time we stopped being surprised when a war hero loses an election.
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Today: Two-for-one tickets to Mavis Staples and Booker T. & the MGs
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Music for Americans.
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Gerald Arpino, cofounder of Chicago's Joffrey Ballet, dead at 85.
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A Chicago synthesis.
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The Canadian outlook on the American presidential election, as culled from the Globe and Mail.
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A long-lost Nirvana guitarist pops up.
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Council meeting? What City Council meeting? Chicago aldermen and Mayor Daley bask in the afterglow of Barack Obama's election.
by Mick Dumke
Tags: News , Clout City , Barack Obama , Rod Blagojevich , Jesse Jackson Jr. , Luis Gutierrez , Mayor Daley , City Council , Ed Burke , Grant Park , Ike Carothers , Block 37 , Danny Davis
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The City Council bars the urban menace known as the ice cream truck from the 18th Ward.
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Some Iowa voters expect the world from their president.
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Scenes Oliver Stone wouldn't let you see, thank God.
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The democratic process: surprisingly easy this morning.
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The Reader's election covers, and mine.
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The Reader's poll-watchers take the auspices, as it were, and predict which swing states will go for which presidential candidate.
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"We were pleased to find that our few encounters with the opposition fully reinforced the stereotyped view we had of it"
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Change we can believe in: LA's Election Operations Center.
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11/4: Free doughnuts, ice cream, french fries, and hot dogs to help ensure a big-voter turnout.
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Lines for the Obama rally are getting long.
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The Khalidi-Zell-Obama plot to do something or other
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11/4: Free tall Starbucks coffee for voters
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Sidewalk codes for the selective trick-or-treater.
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A warrant's been issued for the arrest of art dealer James Kennedy, a no-show in court
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Can't wait for Wednesday.
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On Thursday hard-bop mainstay Cedar Walton kicks off a four-night stand at the Jazz Showcase.
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Postponed: Q-Tip and the Cool Kids at the House of Blues this Wednesday
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What's the matter with Devin Hester?
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You Shoot: Fun in the City
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There may be other Obama art out there, but nothing as small as nanobama.
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Hip-hop: moving at the speed of blogging during election season.
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The past eight years, and the day after.
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You Shoot: palateros for Obama
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Now that you've voted, it's time to claim your reward.
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Two winners of LTHforum's Great Neighborhoods Restaurant awards leaked.
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Chicago Tribune: Start the presses! Again!
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Obama names his chief of staff.
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Some good bets for election night specials and parties.
by Julia Thiel
Tags: Food & Drink , Food Chain , Food , Adobo Grill , Fulton's on the River , SushiSamba Rio , Sheffield's , Moonshine , The Fifty/50 , Election night specials , Whiskey Blue , Old Town Pub
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Another thing you can do for the health of the democratic process: ignore exit polls.
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My home state might decide the election early on in the evening.
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Grampall Jookabox has a surreal way to help you waste time online.
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Watch the crowd gather from the comfort of your computer.
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The Fruit Slinger just doesn't traffic in Red Delicious.
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Now: Free tickets to see No Age and Titus Andronicus
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Charles Nicodemus, investigative reporter and Newspaper Guild leader at the Chicago Sun-Times, dies in Colorado.
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The inevitable election day celebrity sighting.
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The Senator gets it right at the end.
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John McCain rides the Adler's "overhead projector" to the bitter end.
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The view from NYC.
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Election day in pictures.
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Helpful hints from Chicago riot police to officers heading downtown for the day.
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The blogger's friends and family describe Election Day in their parts.
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Mick Dumke reports live from the polls
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A little treat for your goodie bag.
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Film , Halloween , WGN , horror movies , Henry Hyde , Boris Karloff , Creature Features , Henry Mancini , Blake Edwards , Experiment in Terror , Bela Lugosi , Lon Chaney Jr. , Elsa Lanchester , Video
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Where to get down with the McCainiacs.
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Call for pumpkin recipes, with a few to start
by Kate Schmidt
Tags: Food & Drink , Food Chain , Food , Recipes , WAVE , Va Pensiero , pumpkin , Lockwood , Phillip Foss , Kristine Subido , Accidental Hedonist , pumpkin ice cream , ReadyMade
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Voting in Hyde Park
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Common and Talib Kweli host an election-night party at the Hard Rock Cafe.
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The Obama Art Report: signs of the times
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Cook County Clerk David Orr's annual TIF report inspires Medill student Adam Verwymeren to write another installment of "TIFs for Tots."
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Will tomorrow bring a modest landslide?
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Auntie Mame is on the auction block.
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Newspapers--remember those?--impossible to find today.
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A brief omnibus of Studs in the Reader.
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No Age and Titus Andronicus play Chicago for free.
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A few memories of Fast Eddie Vrdolyak
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Lots of smart people have posited reasons why Obama is winning, but only I'm right.
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The University of Nebraska canceled a speech by William Ayers, the so-called terrorist pal of Barack Obama who actually wishes he knew him better.
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John McEntire dancing with a giant owl in space
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Forgive me if someone's made this point already.
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Eater Chicago launch delayed indefinitely.
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We won't have Sarah Palin to kick around much anymore, so enjoy it while it lasts.
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Get out the info: an omnibus post on what's in the news, who's Twittering, what you need to know about Obama, and more
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The scene from the National Civil Rights Museum in the former Hotel Lorraine in Memphis.
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Math solves a Beatles mystery.
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You two characters are going to Top Gun.
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Not much waiting to vote at Uptown's 47th Ward, 41st Precinct
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The ultimate in Drudge election day headlines.
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Jennifer Hudson and her sister have established a foundation to help the families of violent-crime victims.
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The results are in: survey on activism in Chicago theater community.
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Mick Dumke reports from the polls
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Now: Free coffee and thermal mugs at State and Wacker
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William Ayers resurfaces (again).
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Today's the last day to vote early. Here's where the lines might be shortest.
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Monday: A free screening of "Splendor in the Grass," and a discussion with composer David Amram
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The McCain campaign continues to lay waste to musicology.
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How UIC design prof Marcia Lausen is saving democracy.
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City officials say they're revisiting their plans to revamp garbage collection across Chicago.
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Remembering Studs Terkel, master interviewer and always the youngest man in the room.
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Pianist András Schiff celebrates his completion of the Beethoven sonata cycle with a recital Sunday at Symphony Center.
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An apostate Republican reports in from Kansas
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"Fast Eddie" gets nailed.
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The Board of Elections thinks I live in a Loyola mailroom.
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Still-President Bush congratulates the president-elect.
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A day print media really needed.
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Tomorrow's outrage today.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008.
