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Chicago's 10 best bookstores
Tribune staff reporterWhat makes a great bookstore? Consider Anderson's Bookshop. You could raise it from its foundations in downtown Naperville, put it on a large flatbed truck and ever-so-carefully move the whole kit and caboodle 38 miles to Chicago's Hyde Park...Tags: Fiction, Nobel Prize Awards, Colleges and Universities, Bars and Clubs, Architecture
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Obama and Daley political allies now, but they're hardly cronies
Tribune reportersBarack Obama won election to the Illinois Senate in 1996 with no help from Richard Daley. The Chicago mayor offered no assistance to Obama in 2000 when he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Most of Daley's friends, family and associates backed a different...Tags: William Daley, Hyde Park, Columbia College Chicago, African Americans, Interior Policy
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Daley: OK to like (not vote for) McCain
The Swampby Rick Pearson DENVER -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says it's OK for Democrats to like the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Arizona Sen. John McCain. But, he says, you don't have to vote for him. "One thing in politics--I......Tags: Politics, National Government, Government, Barack Obama, John McCain
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'Killer Poet: The Double Life of Norman Porter' (3 1/2 stars!)
Tribune reporter"Killer Poet" is so strong, so evenhanded in its examination of the life of Norman Porter (a.k.a. Jacob A. Jameson) that a viewer will see no need for this documentary ever to inspire a feature film. The facts are wildly cinematic: By 19, in 1960,...Tags: Prisons, Poetry, Crime, Law and Justice, Maine, Crimes
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Phil Vettel's restaurant reviews
Tribune restaurant criticBlu 47 4655 S. Martin Luther King Drive; 773-536-6000. Reviewed on September 27 Despite a total lack of exterior signage on its building, the 47th Street Market Place, this prettily decorated Bronzeville restaurant, across the street from the Harold...Tags: Marketing, Martin Luther King Jr., Restaurants, Limes, Tapas
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Retail rehab gets started on Cottage Grove
![It was the heart of Chicago's "Black Metropolis," a commercial swath of black-owned businesses that thrived on the South Side between World War I and World War II. To some, Cottage Grove Avenue's mix of black insurance brokers, butchers and shop owners represented a viable separatist model for black urban development.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-12/34301476-17054949.jpg "It was the heart of Chicago's "Black Metropolis,\" a commercial swath of black-owned businesses that thrived on the South Side between World War I and World War II. To some, Cottage Grove Avenue's mix of black insurance brokers, butchers and shop owners represented a viable separatist model for black urban development.")
Tribune staff reporterIt was the heart of Chicago's "Black Metropolis," a commercial swath of black-owned businesses that thrived on the South Side between World War I and World War II. To some, Cottage Grove Avenue's mix of black insurance brokers, butchers and shop owners...Tags: Business, Martin Luther King Jr., Olympic Games, Starbucks Corp., Restaurants
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Rezko gavel-to-gavel: Week 1
Rezko rewind. Day 4 March 7, 2008; 4:38 a.m. The Tony Rezko corruption trial finally got down to the substance Thursday, with opening statements and the first witness testimony making it abundantly clear why this is likely to be an uncomfortable case...Tags: Organized Crime, Spring Training, Travel, Recreational Substance Use, Political Fundraising
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The art of politics
Windy City
By Scott Simon
Random House, 419 pages, $25
The brief period in 1987 immediately following the death of Mayor Harold Washington, when Ald. David Orr temporarily replaced Washington, and Establishment candidate Eugene Sawyer and liberal...Tags: Fiction, Health and Safety at School, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Radio, Damon Runyon
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Blagojevich's name surfaces early in case
Tribune staff reportersProsecutors wasted little time Thursday dragging Gov. Rod Blagojevich front and center in the corruption trial of his friend and fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko. With an overflow crowd on hand for the politically charged trial, the first government...Tags: Wilmette, Judges, U.S. Senate, Interior Policy, Prosecution
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McCain, Palin should 'rein it in': Gergen
The Swampby Frank James David Gergen, sometime presidential adviser and CNN analyst, was on Steven Colbert's show last night and had advice for Sen. John McCain -- the Republican presidential nominee needs to "rein in" his attacks as well as......Tags: Sarah Palin, Politics, Local Elections, Barack Obama, John McCain
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Obama from Chicago's political machine?
The SwampMayor Richard J. Daley at Chicago City Hall at June 14, 1973 press conference. Chicago Tribune photo by George Quinn. by Frank James Although the 2008 presidential campaign is over, its talking points apparently aren't, particularly the one about......Tags: Jane Byrne, Politics, Al Capone, U.S. Presidential Election (2008), Demographics
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Obama, Daley: Chicago powers aligning
The Swampby Rick Pearson and Bob Secter Barack Obama won election to the Illinois Senate in 1996 with no help from Richard Daley. The Chicago mayor offered no assistance to Obama in 2000 when he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Most of......Tags: William Daley, Parliament, Hyde Park, Interior Policy, David Axelrod
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