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Voyeur alert: Peeping Photographer Focuses on Chicago's Private Parts

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Armed with a powerful telephoto lens, Michael Wolf captures the unknowing inhabitants of Chicago’s skyscrapers. The voyeuristic project grew out of an ongoing series of cityscape shots, tightly cropped so as to lose all points of reference besides the building’s geometry.

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Apple to spend $4 million to erase eyesore North and Clybourn CTA station

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Apple has signed an agreement with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to spend nearly $4 million to refurbish a run-down triangle of land next to its future Halsted Street retail store, including a subway entrance building, the undergro Read more ... (69 views)

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Lego people want to build Legoland in Southern Illinois, want taxpayers to help pay

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This is bull-honky. There's no way someone should be building an amusement park in Illinois of all places during a time when people are getting laid off. Of course they want tax breaks! Pfft.

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Mayor Daley May Be Considering A Sale Of Chicago's Water System

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If the parking meter deal put a bad taste in your mouth, try swallowing this:
Chicago is considering leasing its water system to help fix the budget.

The new boss could charge whatever they want for water, CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.

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Top 10 reasons I quit: Chicago ad exec leaves job with farewell e-mail for the ages

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Anyone know what agency this genius was working for? Starcom is my best guess.

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Cook County prosecutors want Medill's Innocence Project to hand over notes, grades

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Cook County prosecutors have subpoenaed all notes, interviews, grades, e-mails and other communications from the Medill School of Journalism's Innocence Project in connection with a 31-year-old case set to be reheard after the class dug up new evidence exonerating the convicted.

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Cubs fans win: Plans to build a Wrigleyville hotel downsized

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After a series of talks, M&R Development has agreed to downsize the project considerably and lower its height to below that of the ballpark roofline. M&R has now filed a zoning application that includes a 137-room Hyatt hotel, 135 residential units, 147,000 square feet of retail space and a 403-space underground parking garage.

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Playboy's new CEO: We're bringing back the Playboy clubs...but not in Chicago

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Interesting interview with Chicago Tribune reveals Playboy intends to do a lot more licensing, particularly to clubs that want to brand themselves as Playboy hangouts...unfortunately no one in Chicago is listed as a possible partner.

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Sniping starts early in governor's race; Post your favorite Hynes/Quinn diss here

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The governor's race is barely under way, but the name-calling and finger-pointing are already in full swing with Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes duking it out months ahead of the Democratic primary.

Quinn has called Hynes an "ankle-biter," accused him of sitting on the sidelines and chastised him for trying to "deceive" voters in a TV ad.

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Manager Beaten To Death Outside Lincoln Square Neighborhood Bar

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Police say it may have been a robbery that led to the the bludgeoning death of a man found with two gashes on his head early Sunday after closing up a quiet Lincoln Square neighborhood bar he managed.

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