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Space
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New West Humboldt Park art space Silent Funny showcases Luftwerk's water-and-light installations.
- by Andrea Bauer
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Tags: Space, You Are Here, Space, Arts, Silent Funny, Luftwerk, Refractions, Flow, Matthew Baron, Daniel Schor, installation, Dave Rempis, Josh Abrams, Avreeayl Ra, West Humboldt Park, Video
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Savage Love
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A onetime heterosexual wonders. Plus: a thong-loving ex-boyfriend, what those closed eyes mean (or don’t)
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, asexual, friends with benefits, no strings attached, David Jay, Asexual Visibility and Education Network, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, University of British Columbia, masturbation, The Invisible Orientation, Julie Decker, Matthew Makela, Asexual Outreach, Grindr, orgasm
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Movie Feature
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An excerpt from J.R. Jones's new book, The Lives of Robert Ryan
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Feature, The Lives of Robert Ryan, J.R. Jones, Music Box, The Set-Up, Robert Wise, Martin Scorsese, film history, Chicago film history, Wesleyan University Press, The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah
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Movie Review
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A new drama from Lourdes director Jessica Hausner chronicles the final exit of German Romantic playwright Heinrich von Kleist.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Review, Jessica Hausner, Amour Fou, Lourdes, Heinrich von Kleist, Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Birte Schnoeink, 19th century Europe, Film Comment, Keir Dullea, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Marquise of O, German Romantics
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Pinwheel Records opens in Pilsen this summer, and Michael Kandel of Tranquility Bass passes away.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Staring Problem, Carbondale, BLVD Records, Modern Tapes, Staring Problem, Pilsen, Pinwheel Records, Scott Schaaf, Michael Kandel, Tranquility Bass, Astralwerks, Let the Freak Flag Fly, David Bowie, U2
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Music Feature
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Scholar Robert Marovich documents gospel’s Windy City roots in a new book and recommends five Chicago acts at this weekend's Gospel Music Festival
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music Feature, Robert Marovich, Chicago Gospel Music Festival, Millennium Park, DePaul University, gospel music, Notre Dame University, Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer, A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music, Patricia Andrews Marovich, Kirk Franklin, O'Landa Draper, Gospel Memories, Loyola University, Journal of Gospel Music, Wow Gospel, The Gospel Sound, the Great Migration, A City Called Heaven, Mahalia Jackson, Edwin Hawkins, Andrae Crouch, Robert Anderson, Dexter Walker & Zion Movement, Southside Neighborhood Gospel Festival, Ricky Dillard & New G, The Promise, Amazing, Anita Wilson, East Saint Louis, Worship Soul, James Cleveland, Vintage Worship, Jonathan McReynolds, The Tommies Reunion, Reverend Milton Brunson, Dee Clark, Aldrea Lenox, Jessy Dixon, Loretta Oliver, Vernon Oliver Price, Kim McFarland, Leanne Faine, The Brown Sisters, The Brown Sisters: Live in Chicago, the Clark Sisters, the Pointer Sisters, Video
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Record Roundup
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Reviews of new music by Flesh Panthers, J Fernandez, Lil Durk, the Singleman Affair, T.B. Arthur, and the Valenteens
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Record Roundup, Flesh Panthers, NGC 2632, Ryan Zombotron, J. Fernandez, Many Levels of Laughter, Justin Fernandez, Lil Durk, Remember My Name, The Singleman Affair, End of the Affair, Dan Schneider, Adam Vida, Sam Wagster, Jacob Smith, Gary Pyskacek, T.B. Arthur, Dubs From the DAT, Steve Mizek, The Valenteens, Fuzzed Out Tone for the Painfully Alone, Kris Di Benedetto, Vince Aguilar
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Jazzy folk-rockers Redwood Landing have reunited a few times since splitting in the late 70s, and in 1994 bassist Ron Kaplan cofounded talent agency Monterey International.
- by Steve Krakow
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Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Redwood Landing, Lake Forest College, Mitch Meyerson, Ron Kaplan, George Potts, Triad, Neal Howe, Steve Eisen, Andy Potter, Monterey International
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Bleader
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They'll give Guinness a shot in June.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Music, Tinkerbelles, Guinness Book of World Records, Adam Mohundro, Christian Dawson, postpunk, tour, Lagunitas, punk rock, world records, world record, video, Video
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Surf, the new album from Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment (aka Chance the Rapper's backing band), is for sale on iTunes.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Whoa, Hip-Hop, Music, Surf, Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment, Donnie Trumpet, Chance the Rapper, the Social Experiment, Acid Rap, Nico Segal, Peter Cottontale, Nate Fox, Erykah Badu, Kids These Days, Busta Rhymes, Jeremih, Migos, Quavo, Noname Gypsy, J. Cole, Saba, Pivot Gang, Comfort Zone, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Sunday Candy, Video
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Franco-Finnish duo the Dø play electro-pop that's smart and lively enough to win over a metalhead.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Foreign, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, the Do, Shake Shook Shaken, Despair Hangover and Ecstasy, Keep Your Lips Sealed, Miracles (Back in Time), Anita No!, Olivia Merilahti, Dan Levy, Pierre Belleville, Victoires de la Musique, Video
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. . . while French master André Téchiné looks quizzically at wild youth in his unjustly marginalized In the Name of My Daughter.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, We're Old, Film, I'll See You in My Dreams, Blythe Danner, Brett Haley, In the Name of My Daughter, André Téchiné, Catherine Deneuve, Adele Haenel, Video
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Go green with this veggie-centric stew from the Chicago chef's collection of southern specialties.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Paul Fehribach, Big Jones, The Big Jones Cookbook, Southern food, Southern Louisiana food, Cajun food, Creole, food, gumbo, gumbo z'herbes, Lenten food, gumbo ya-ya
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Local experimental musician Natalie Chami prepares to drop All the Way, a doozy, moody cassette she recorded as TALsounds.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Do This, Music, TALsounds, Natalie Chami, Good Willsmith, Hausu Mountain, Max Allison, Brian Griffith, Plustapes, Rodan, Mono, L'éternèbre, Doug Kaplan
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On drones and chivalry
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, war, chivalry, drone warfare, Good Kill, Grounded, Vietnam war, William Stark, Jack Van Loan, Ethan Hawke, Anne Hathaway, Curt Bennett, Ender's Game, The Face of Battle, John Keegan, Video
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"I didn't want to sleep because I didn't want to miss any of it."
- by John Dugan
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Tags: Books, Arts, Band Life, Music, Jon Fine, Your Band Sucks, Bitch Magnet, All Tomorrow's Parties, Sooyoung Park, Orestes Delatorre, indie rock, underground rock
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Convicted drug dealer Jason Austin, held accountable for killing a cop and social worker, appeals his sentence.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, News, Terrence Scott, Joan Lefkow, West Humboldt Park, west side, murder, drugs, drug trade, arrests, drug-related arrests, heroin, Jason Austin, crime, violence, CPD, Chicago Police Department, Robert Soto, Kathryn Romberg, U.S. attorney's office, prosecutions, witnesses, prison, federal prosecutors, Zachary Fardon, Richard Kling, drug dealers, neighborhoods, FBI
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The latest collaboration between the duo behind Gattaca portrays contemporary America as a sci-fi nightmare.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Shots Fired, Film, Politics, Good Kill, Andrew Niccol, Ethan Hawke, Gattaca, In Time, Bigger Than Life, drone warfare, Video
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Opening, Film, The Lives of Robert Ryan, The Wild Bunch, The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Set-Up, J.R. Jones, Music Box Chicago, Matthew Hoffman, Park Ridge Classic Film, Lisa Ryan, Ben Sachs, Amour Fou, Jessica Hausner, Lourdes, Heinrich von Kleist, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Chambermaid, Felix and Meira, Love at First Fight, Mamele, Molly Picon, Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper, Yves Saint Laurent, San Andreas, Saving Mes Aynak, Sunshine Superman, Carl Boenish, When Marnie Was There, Studio Ghibli, Frederick Wiseman, Domestic Violence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Music Box, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carl Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Drazin, African Metropolis: Six Stories From Six African Cities, Chatham 14, Hippies Doing Things Nude and Other Treasures From the Back Room, Comfort Station, Joanna Arnow, Nightingale Cinema Chicago, Joe Mantegna, Jon McDaniel, Bela Gandhi, Sideways movie, City Winery, Stop Making Nonsense: Japanese Surrealist Films 1960-1964, Co-Prosperity Sphere, movies, Video
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The packed bill includes No Doubt, Drive Like Jehu, and Snoop Dogg performing Doggystyle.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music, Riot Fest, Riot Fest 2015, Riot Fest Chicago, No Doubt, Drive Like Jehu, Snoop Dogg, Modest Mouse, Faith No More
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The program features compositions by the two jazz-bred composers, with the latter performing on her works.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, MusicNow, Anna Clyne, Mason Bates, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Myra Melford, John Zorn, Marc Mellits, Esa-Pekka Salonen, "Strawberry, " Snowy Egret, "The Whole Tree Gone"
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The preview to his new Philip Anselmo-produced LP is bigger and meaner than ever.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Author & Punisher, Tristan Shone, industrial metal, heavy metal, machines, Philip Anselmo, Housecore Records, Pantera, Godflesh, Video
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The new Fox show's creator has promised a beginning, middle, and end in a single season.
- by Gwynedd Stuart
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Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, wayward pines, fox, twin peaks, matt dillon, m. night shyamalan, juliette lewis
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"Two For the Road," off Sewingneedle's forthcoming Vote of No Confidence, is a bummer of a song and video in the best way possible.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Sewingneedle, Vote of No Confidence, Two For the Road, 12 O'Clock Track, Aerial Ballet, Danny Cohen, Burlington, Calvin Fredrickson, Spiteful Brewing, Video
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Video Warning Attempts," from the Black Moth Super Rainbow front man.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Tobacco, Thomas Fec, Do Division, Video Warning Attempts, Ultima II Massage, Empty Bottle, psychedelic, electronic, synths, Pittsburgh, Video
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From the death penalty to Wrigley rooftops, the Rickettses are active on many fronts
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Politics, Sports, News, Tom Ricketts, Joe Ricketts, Pete Ricketts, Wrigley Field, death penalty, Nebraska, heinous crimes, DNAinfo
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Twelve contestants braved delirium and swollen ankles for the chance to win a Metallica pinball machine in the beercade's Hands-on-a-thon.
- by Ryan Smith
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Tags: This Will Kill You, Whoa, Arts, Technology, Music, News, headquarters, beercade, metallica, hands-on-a-thon, pinball
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Transient's small-batch barrel-fermented beers take ages to go from brew house to bottle, but they don't stay on shelves for long after that.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Transient Artisan Ales, Chris Betts, One Trick Pony, Aquanaut, Buckley, Bark Lord, Salarium, Maigre, Brutus, Pentameter, Betise, Cuvier, Obelus, Galaxy Obelus, Chaos Echoes
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In the category of good news, Mayor Rahm's school board punts on Noble's proposal to open a new charter high school in Uptown—just in time for Karen Lewis and Troy LaRaviere to talk about it at next week's First Tuesdays show at the Hideout.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Karen Lewis, Rahm Emanuel, Troy LaRaviere, Blaine Elementary, Hideout, Ameya Pawar, Pat O'Connor, charter schools, Nobel Charter, Chicago Public Schools, school board, Brandon Johnson, David Vitale
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Many are called, but I won't be chosen.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Crime, News, juries, jury duty, Cook County Jury Administration, Circuit Court of Cook County, criminal courts, Courtroom 302, voir dire, Gino Divito, William Cousins
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Chicago Craft Beer Week's opening and closing events featured a lot of the same beers, but enjoyed very different weather conditions.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Chicago Craft Beer Week, Beer Under Glass, Welles Park Craft Beer Fest, outdoor beer festival, Banging Gavel, Chicanery Russian imperial stout, coconut cherry Randall, Around the Bend, Silk Road, galangal pale ale, Middle Brow, Moscow Mule Kombucha, Scratch Brewing, chanterelle biere de garde, basil ale, wild yeast tripel
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Challenged to create a dish with fresh turmeric, Rey Villalobos tames the heat of the rhizome by turning it into ice cream.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Key Ingredient, Food & Drink, Rey Villalobos, Table Fifty-Two, fresh turmeric, Key Ingredient, ice cream, pineapple, Emily Kraszyk, Farmhouse Chicago, beef tongue, Video
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Street View featuring the SAIC 2015 fashion show
- by Isa Giallorenzo
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Tags: Style, Arts, womenswear, menswear, fashion show, SAIC, SAIC 2015, SAIC fashion, fashion, young designers, Chicago street style
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The Chicago rappers seem to alter time on some of their new material.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, King Louie, Drilluminati 3, Mick Jenkins, P's & Q's, Wave[s], NPR, C-Sick, PartyNextDoor, OVO, Video
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The new exhibit is a collaboration between the Art Institute and the Arts Club of Chicago.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Arts, Visual Art, Environment, jean-luc mylayne, mutual regard, mylène mylayne, birds, photography, nature photography, arts club chicago, art institute, millennium park, lurie garden, janine mileaf, matthew witkovsky
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Old and Wise," the closing track off the Alan Parsons Project's 1982 album Eye in the Sky.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Alan Parsons Project, Eric Woolfson, Old and Wise, Eye in the Sky, Sirius, Chicago Bulls, Colin Blunstone, The Zombies, Video
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Highlights from the filmography of Max Ophuls
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Max Ophuls, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Liebelei, La Ronde, Don Druke, Lola Montes, The Reckless Moment, Dave Kehr, The Earrings of Madame de . . ., Kent Jones
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Good Kill screens in Chicago. And a new justification for AI.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, drones, artificial intelligence, Good Kill, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Blackhawks, Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Chicago Tribune, Video
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With the Willis Tower and other downtown buildings fetching record sales prices, it's a good time to remember how much TIF money we've sunk into these areas.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Willis Tower, TIF, Tax Increment Financing, LaSalle Central TIF district, Mayor Daley, Mayor Emanuel, Reader, Blackstone Group, Apparel Center, River Point, Skydeck, Chicago Public Schools, Burt Natarus
