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Chicago commuters are familiar with the minutes, hours and ultimately days annually lost while sitting in northbound rush hour traffic. A recently released report identified one stretch of the highway as the second-worst traffic bottleneck in the country. [...] Chicago’s critical cinematic eye drew global respect as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became household names. Ebert now blogs about movies, but where he screens them — the Lake Street Screening Room — is one of the city’s hidden [...] On the heels of last year’s win by Frontera Grill’s Rick Bayless, this year, five Chicago chefs — the most contestants from one city — are in the field of 22 for Bravo TV’s Top Chef Masters. For this week’s Chicago Explainer story, I created a culinary tale of the tape of Second City’s five local [...] This year, I’ve come across Ken Carbone’s Fast Company blog where he redesigns what he calls “the worst NFL helmet graphics. Carbone gives credit to what he considers the best NFL helmet logos: Dallas, St. Louis, Philadelphia and [...] There’s nothing quite like Illinois politics. Tuesday’s Election Day turnout was much lower than expected, but three statewide races (the Democratic and GOP governor’s race primaries and the state comptroller race) were so close they are currently decided by less than one vote per [...] Nexus One. The rumored Apple tablet. Droid. Netbooks. iPhone 3G. It’s an amazing time from a technological point of view. The exchange of information and ideas is being revised and adapted to new technologies. Media in particular, having taken their share of lumps over the past two years, have mobile and possibly tablet-formats on which to [...] I had a great time at the 05.16 SND-Chicago meetup. It’s great to discuss innovation possibilities in multimedia with a diverse range of journalists, marketers and [...] Unfortunately, the first thing I learned was even with good intentions to address a problematic facet of the media industry, “gotcha” tactics can easily mischaracterize someone. It dismisses credibility, hinders dialogue and undermines well-thought [...] |
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