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August 2007

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• 08.19.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Thursday and Friday August 16-17, 2007   lake michigan, restaurant, transit, roundup, suburb, real estate, gang (0)

  New tourism campaign changing due to unintended gang sign
  As state tourism officials launched their new “Live Passionately” campaign Wednesday, a spokeswoman said they hoped a hand sign used in the marketing effort would “catch on and become a part of culture, especially here in Virginia.”
  It turns out that the sign already has a following - […]

• 08.19.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Tuesday August 14, 2007   bicycle, tax, illinois, shootings, south side, roundup (0)

  State lawmakers to get 10% pay raise
  SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich, doing battle with lawmakers for months, let them have their nearly 10 percent pay raises despite vowing during his re-election campaign to veto the increases.
  Wish I could make laws giving myself a 10% raise. Or how about just a 10% reduction in […]

• 08.19.07
  Films from the 7th Annual Bicycle Film Festival   courier, tulsa, neistat, bicycle, film (0)

  Some of the videos featured at the Seventh Annual Bicycle Film Festival 2007 which took place in Chicago the past few days and also in NYC, LA, Paris, Toronto, Portland, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Vienna, London, Milano, Roma, Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne, and Tokyo.
  The Youtube videos are messing with the flow of the page so click more […]

• 08.14.07
  Chicago Strip Club Rundown   south suburb, strip club, sexual, indiana (0)

  Your friend is getting married or may be he just turned 21 and you’re looking for a good place in Chicago to see naked women without having to first buy them drinks.  You’ve probably also heard the troubles with going to a strip club in Chicago.  Expensive, not many choices, not fully nude, or no […]

• 08.13.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Wednesday and Thursday August 8-9, 2007   ohare, streeterville, river, pollution, auto, roundup, airport, suburb (0)

  Taken & Torched
  The first car stolen was a purple 1993 Chevy pick-up. It was taken from a car lot in the 600-block of Champaign Avenue in Rantoul. It was found burning a few days later in Dolton, a southern suburb of Chicago. The second car was a 1994 Chevy Blazer. […]

• 08.13.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday August 11-13, 2007   naperville, highway, gas, batman, gelato, south shore, ravenswood, hotel, indiana, airport, roundup, shootings, homeless, magnificent mile, history, gang (0)

  Wizard World lights up for ‘Dark Knight’
  The Joker was serious business over the weekend at Wizard World Chicago, the pop culture and comic book convention that invades Rosemont each summer.
  Warner Bros. chose the convention to show the first live footage of Heath Ledger as the Joker and shed a little light on “The Dark Knight,” […]

• 08.08.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Monday and Tueday August 6-7, 2007   old town, southwest, fashion, mchenry, skyway, bicycle, depaul, berwyn, film, south side, roundup, shootings, cocaine, weather, flood, suburb (0)

  The Dark Knight redux
  A curious crowd has gathered in Chicago’s Old Town, where a film crew has spent a good portion of the night setting up shop.
  Word has traveled through the neighborhood that the latest in the “Batman” series, “The Dark Knight,” starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, is shooting scenes. People, many […]

• 08.07.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Saturday and Sunday August 4-5, 2007   basketball, bridge, sexual, englewood, union, symphony, immigration, south side, weather, tips, heat, roundup (0)

  Bloggers Consider Forming Labor Union
  CHICAGO - Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae?
  In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional […]

• 08.07.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Friday August 3, 2007   southwest, calumet, uptown, highway, west nile, river north, lake michigan, south side, west side, shootings, great lakes, roundup (0)

  BP pollution tiff hits Chicago bond underwriters
  A powerful Chicago alderman, upset about oil company BP’s plan to release more pollutants from an Indiana refinery into Lake Michigan, says municipal bond underwriting firms with ties to BP will be excluded from city business.
  [via Reuters.uk]

  Chicago man diagnosed with West Nile virus
  Officials at the Chicago Department of […]

• 08.04.07
  Thinking of Minneapolis from Chicago   war, minneapolis, terrorism (0)

  In the Chicago Tribune yesterday were two letters to the editor about the bridge disaster in Minneapolis that I wanted to repost here:
  Lets hope that Chicago Bridge inspectors are better than Chicago porch inspectors at discovering and remediating potential structural failures.
  -Sue Ellen Levins, Chicago
  As I follow the news on television about the collapse of the […]

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