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Alex Parker

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 8, 2011
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Chicago is only the fourth most expensive place to park
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, CTA, Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, PACE, Michael Bailey murder, Father Pfleger, Boys Town, Gov. Pat Quinn, President Obama, Texas Rangers, Rupert Murdoch, News of the World, Andy Coulson, David Cameron, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2011
Our expanding waistline: Illinois is the fattest it's ever been
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Taste of Chicago, iPhone, Casey Anthony, City Council

Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2011
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Illinois cuts writing test requirement; civilization doomed?
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Illinois, Chicago River, Taste of Chicago, Mayor Emanuel, Christian Choate, Boys Town, Ald. Tom Tunney, Casey Anthony, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2011
Joravsky, Miner named finalists for AAN awards
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Media, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Ben Joravsky, Michael Miner

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2011
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Video shows Boys Town stabbing attack
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Jody Weis, Larry Dominick, Cicero, Fox News, Twitter, President Obama, News of the World, Pakistan, Roger Clemens, steroids, Tour de France, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 1, 2011
It might feel like 105 degrees today
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Feldco, Mayor Emanuel, Alderman Ed Burke, Newt Gingrich, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Glenn Beck, President Toni Preckwinkle, Project Shield

Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2011
Mayor Emanuel hopes Illinois legalizes gay marriage
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Mayor Emanuel, NFL, Transformers III, Whittier Elementary, Chicago Public Schools, Gov. Quinn

Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2011
Make way for ducklings
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Alderman Ed Burke, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Sun-Times, Jay Mariotti, labor unions, Mayor Emanuel, Rod Blagojevich, Spirit Airlines, unions, Walmart, Wrigley rooftops

Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2011
Blago, no one else ‘stunned’ at verdict
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Rod Blagojevich, George Ryan, Mayor Emanuel, Chicago Wolves, Chicago Blackhawks, Vancouver Canucks, Betty Loren-Maltese, Michele Bachmann, John Wayne, John Wayne Gacy

Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2011
Awaiting the Blago verdict
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Mayor Emanuel, Mayor Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Moammar Gadhafi, Libya, World War II, gay marriage

Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2011
It was a dark and stormy night, and now 260k people have no power
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, storm, ComEd, Jody Weis, Civic Federation, Brian Carpey, Fender Stratocaster, NATO, Afghanistan, Chicago Public Schools, Winnetka, Newt Gingrich, Tiffany's

Blogs, Bleader Jun 21, 2011
Roger Ebert vs. Bam Margera
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Roger Ebert, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Jody Weis, CTA, Chicago Transit Authority, Rod Blagojevich, Randy Michaels, Tribune, Q101, the Loop, smoking

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2011
Alderman: Emanuel aide threatened me
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno, Mayor Emanuel, President Toni Preckwinkle, FBI, Father's Day, T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2011
As the Yankees come to town, a legend revisited
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Babe Ruth, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, Gov. Pat Quinn, Cook County, CTA, Chicago Transit Authority, Winnetka, Home Alone

Blogs, Bleader Jun 16, 2011
Adorable woodland creatures evicted by mean old city bureaucrats
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Boystown, Chicago Board of Education, Chicago Teachers Union, Alderman Tom Tunney, food trucks, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, Stanley Cup, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, Pakistan

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2011
Stephen Colbert was always a 'brilliant' comic
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA, Gabe Klein, Wrigley Field, Stephen Colbert, Northwestern University, Tammy Duckworth, Michele Bachmann

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2011
Safer pedestrian crossings could be on the way
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Mayor Daley, Mayor Emanuel, President Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman James Cappleman, Gay Girl in Damascus, hoax, Harold Camping, Rapture, Rep. Anthony Weiner

Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2011
Another attack, as McCarthy vows results
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Supt. Garry McCarthy, mob violence, City of Chicago, employee salaries, Mark Grace, Chicago Cubs, Guardian Angels

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2011
New reports of mob attacks include CTA bus encounter
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, flash mob attacks, Mayor Emanuel, Rep. Bobby Rush, Mayor Daley, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Patrick Kane, Stanley Cup, Chicago Blackhawks, Rod Blagojevich, Oney Guillen, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2011
It's so hot right now
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Tom Skilling, weather, gambling, mob, crime, Mayor Emanuel, Lewis Jordan, Chicago Housing Authority, President Obama, Austan Goolsbee, Apple, iCloud, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sarah Palin, Chile, volcano

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2011
Four men beaten as teens swarm downtown areas
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, flash mobs, social media, Mayor Daley, Patrick Daley, R.J. Vanecko, Rick Santorum, Chicago Cubs, Carlos Zambrano, St. Louis Cardinals, State rep. Mark Beaubian Jr, Children's Memorial Hospital, TIF

Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2011
Willis Tower can be yours
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Willis Tower, Chicago Public Schools, Prentice Hospital, Union Station, Chicago Cubs, Major League baseball, Rod Blagojevich, Groupon, Jack Kevorkian, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, John Edwards

Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2011
New website shows crime block-by-block
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Gambling, casino, Trulia, crime, Rod Blagojevich, Rep. Anthony Wiener, Barack Obama, Harper Reed, Threadless

Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2011
Video
Gay community celebrates state's first civil unions
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Mayor Daley, casino, Jim Tressel, Ohio State, Wendy's, North Avenue Beach, Cook County, civil unions, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 31, 2011
House approves Chicago casino; Emanuel "key" to deal
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois House of Representatives, Rep. Lou Lang, Mayor Emanuel, Ernest Hemingway, Moammar Gadhafi, Al-Jazeera, Libya

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