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Urban Car Dealers Get Creative
KickingTiresIn most of the country, the car dealership is a standalone building on a strip of road. Sometimes it's a road lined with dealer upon dealer so shoppers don't have to go far if they're cross-shopping. In recent years, these......Tags: Automotive Equipment, Italy, Manufacturing and Engineering, Wrigley Field, Mercury
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Chicagoan Susman to UK as ambassador?
The Swampby John McCormick President Barack Obama will soon name a Chicagoan and one of his top political fundraisers to a plum ambassadorship, according to reports in the British press. Louis Susman, a veteran fundraiser who served as Sen. John Kerry's......Tags: Sports, University of Michigan, John Kerry, Politics, Barack Obama
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New Hyundai Spied in Chicago?
KickingTiresWe???ve joked before that automakers shouldn't drive by Cars.com HQ in a test car they don???t want photographed. Besides the hundreds of employees here with camera phones (thanks to our own Jacque Harper for these), there are also thousands of......Tags: Hyundai, Automotive Equipment, Subaru, Vehicles, Taste of Chicago
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Interview: The real Travie McCoy comes out at the top of Willis Tower
Travie McCoy, the heavily pierced and tattooed frontman for Gym Class Heroes, broke the silence on the elevator ride to Willis Tower’s 103rd floor on Saturday right around the 500-foot mark. “Oh …” said McCoy, plugging his...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Joakim Noah, Bruno Mars, Music Industry, National Basketball Association
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Dining amid the clouds at Metropolitan
The popularity of Chicago Restaurant Week, which continues through Sunday, can make some restaurants very difficult to get into. But it also offers access to dining rooms that ordinarily are off-limits. The Metropolitan Club, on the 67th floor of Willis...Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'Boss' filming wraps in Chicago, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis coming to Wrigley Field, Pitchfork sightings
If you followed Kelsey Grammer’s time in the Chicago area filming Season 2 of cable network Starz’s “Boss,” you likely know the five-time Emmy-winning actor had his wife’s name tattooed on his hip in April at Insight...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Gold Coast, Jordana Spiro, Entertainment Events, Pies and Tarts
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Kerry Wood raising money for charity with cupcakes, 'Jersey Shore' star Ronnie appearing in Schaumburg, Jennifer Hudson and David Otunga visit Chicago Indoor Racing
How did the Cubs’ Kerry Wood spend the night before his team’s season opener against the Washington Nationals at Wrigley Field? By decorating cupcakes. Wood — all 6-foot-5 of him — squeezed the cream cheese frosting out of a...
Tags: Frosting and Icing, Food Network (tv network), Jersey Shore (tv program), Derrick Rose, Washington Nationals
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Lake Forest College, Oprah Winfrey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums, Artists
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Pump Room is primed & ready
The Pump Room is back, baby. The ghosts of former habitues Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart and untold others can revel in a revamped dining room that's as relevant for today's restaurant patron as the original Pump Room was for the celebrities of...Tags: Chicago Hotels, Frank Sinatra, Dining and Drinking, New York City, Humphrey Bogart
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Video/Q&A: 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' star/co-writer Rashida Jones
Women break down in romantic comedies all the time. They just rarely do so to the point of looking unattractive, says Rashida Jones. “She always looks good, her hair looks good and her apartment’s pretty. It’s like, there’s things...
Tags: Academy Awards, Judd Apatow, David Fincher, Culture, Aziz Ansari
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The right's fraudulent fears
Whenever you hear about a psychic being arrested, the natural question is: Why didn't she see that coming? Conservatives who raise dire alarms about what will happen in Barack Obama's second term face a similar problem. They need him to lose so their...Tags: Defense, Personal Weapon Control, John Boehner, Elections, National Rifle Association of America
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Prime plates: Where to go for Restaurant Week
Back for a fifth year, Chicago Restaurant Week kicks off Friday with 10 straight days of discounted dining, lunch and dinner, at some of Chicago's best restaurants.
Launched in 2008 with 35 pioneering participants, Chicago Restaurant Week, produced by...Tags: Appetizers, Salads, Pies and Tarts, Key Lime Pie, Chocolate Cake
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