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Gambling bill would allow PokerStars, Full Tilt to apply for an online gaming license
A gambling expansion bill is back, but it now includes a provision that would allow PokerStars, once accused by federal prosecutors of money laundering and fraud, to compete for an online gaming license in Illinois. In the first draft of Senate Bill...
Tags: Finance, Prosecution, Casino and Gambling Industry, Terry Mazany, Computer Crime
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Is the Working Families Flexibility Act really flexible?
If we lived in a perfect world, doughnuts would be vegetables, Matthew McConaughey would have my abs and I would have his, and work would be a high-paying activity that involved naps. Also in a perfect world, a thing called The Working Families...
Tags: Martha Roby, U.S. House of Representatives, Employment, Rex Huppke, U.S. Congress
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Harris: Project gets off to 'beautiful' start
The stickers are simple and, well, beautiful. Printed on reflective silver, they're cut in the size and shape of a nametag and say "you are beautiful" in bold, black print. They're the "all-encompassing" artistic statement of Chicago graphic...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Auction Service, Apple iPhone, Corn Products International Incorporated, Melissa Harris
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Groupon co-founder Keywell taping radio pilots
Serial entrepreneur and Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell has begun taping pilots for a new 30-minute radio program he would host on WBEZ-FM 91.5, a public radio station. "It would be a Saturday morning show," said Jessica Malkin, executive director of...Tags: Finance, Entertainment, Religion and Belief, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Barack Obama
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Woman's surname is hers to keep or change
Dear Amy: I have been dating a wonderful woman for several months now, and we have fallen deeply in love. We talk of spending our lives together, and although we are undecided if we would get legally married, we would at the appropriate time make a...
Tags: Gymnastics, Advice Columns and Columnists, Human Interest
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: Students, Nobel Prize Awards, Education, Social Security, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Mighty Big Aspirations
You often hear people say that when the job market is bad, it's a good idea to go back to school and boost your academic credentials. I have disregarded that advice because I fear it might interfere with my TV watching, but many folks — whether...
Tags: Finance, University of Chicago, Research, Rex Huppke, Economy, Business and Finance
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: Finance, Consumer Confidence, Illinois Institute of Technology, Education, Melissa Harris
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A country song, assumptions -- and a racial outcry
Southern white men don't usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution. So after country music star Brad Paisley released his new song "Accidental Racist" this...Tags: Entertainment, Radio, Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Civil Rights, Racism
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Phil Vettel: Three stars for EL Ideas
EL Ideas has been playing to full houses since it opened in July 2011. That would be a nice achievement for any operation, but given the quirky experience chef and owner Phillip Foss offers, it's positively miraculous. Dinners cost $145, prepaid, tip...
Tags: Greektown, Restaurants, Caviar, EL Ideas, Potatoes
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Here's some poetic justice for gun-control advocates
I know why the caged bird shoots. Because some creep is at the door, turning the knob. And she's alone and rightfully afraid. But she has a gun in her hand. And thanks to the Second Amendment that many on the political left would like to erase and...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, John Kass, Periodicals, Time (magazine), Maya Angelou
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Overcoming obstacles: Or, what I learned from a cactus
I was climbing a gorgeous rock formation in Arizona the other day, holding my 6-year-old's hand, when my foot slipped and my butt made acquaintance with a cactus. This was not one of those tame, domestic cactuses. It was an ornery, feral succulent...
Tags: Rex Huppke
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