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Getting creative with TIFs

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Progress Illinois looks at ways the millions in TIF funds might be released for paying the City's bills.

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Englewood native struggles to become unlikely country music star

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"Growing up in Englewood, Liz Toussaint straddled a musical divide. "In front of my friends, we listened to Biggie Smalls and Tupac," she recently recalled, sliding into a stage whisper.

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Nachos for lunch every day at CPS schools

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Tribune food writer Monica Eng looks at CPS school lunches and the national effort to improve kids' health, pointing out that making nachos available every day might not be a great idea in a district

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Elevated rail line could be 2.7 mile long park

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A plan to turn an old elevated rail line into a 2.7 mile long public greenspace is underway. I will connect Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square, and Humboldt Park.

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Bankrupt Sun-Times Looks To Pay Bonuses To 20 Executives

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"Sun-Times Media Group Inc., which has been slashing jobs and closing down newspapers to cut costs, wants to pay 20 employees up to $1.8 million in bonuses if the company is sold for a certain amount.

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Beaches, architecture & ice cream on bike trip to the Indiana Dunes

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"Relax. Camp out Saturday night, cook over a fire, drink some whiskey from your flask and fall asleep to coyotes howling along with a distant train whistle.

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Obama's speech: The view from sweet home Chicago

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GlobalPost talks to Middle East expert Dr. Rachel Bronson, vice president of programs and studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

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Obama names "Great Lakes Czar"

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Cameron Davis, president and CEO of Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes, has been tapped by the Obama administration to serve as special advisor to the U.S.

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Uncovered Chicago Defender archives featured in NYT

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"The collection has some 4,000 photographs, including unpublished shots of the boxer Jack Johnson and the bandleader Duke Ellington, as well as letters from every United States president from Truman t

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Microcredit used to help Chicago entrepreneurs

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"After being turned away by bank after bank, Best resigned herself to a grim routine of working two jobs and racking up credit card debt.

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I like comics, football, snacks, and politics. I work in nonprofit communications.

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