Farming wind

River North-based company navigates renewable energy economy

03/10/2010 10:00 PM

Drive a couple of hours southwest of Chicago, down a two-lane county road, through cornfields and cow pastures and into a town called Tiskilwa, Ill. Skyscrapers disappeared miles ago. Follow the bend in the road and look out the passenger-side window. Strategically placed on the hill, several 400-foot, white wind turbines peek through the hazy, gray fog. Even the snow on the ground seems off-white in comparison.
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City soup

Lighting illuminated the El stop at Polk and State streets Monday night after a San-Francisco-like fog descended on the city.
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JASON GEIL/Staff Photographer

A piece of the census pie

Time to stand up and be counted

03/10/2010

The U.S. Census Monitoring Board estimates that 76,819 people in Cook County were not counted in the 2000 census. That’s nearly enough bodies to fill Wrigley Field twice.
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Healthy eats

Dissatisfied with after son’s food in the South Loop, couple starts company

03/10/2010

Two years ago, husband and wife team Jason Weedon and Danielle Hrzic investigated their son’s lunch menu at his private preschool in the South Loop and were disappointed with what they saw. They wanted something better, and decided to intervene.
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Strollin' and strummin'

03/10/2010

Web Extra! Slideshow
Alejo Poveda played his guitar at the Jazz Showcase earlier this week. Still run by the Segal family, the Jazz Showcase is now open in Printers Row, on Dearborn south of Polk. For years, the music project was located near State and Grand.
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Recession-style love means divorce

03/10/2010

THERE ARE COUPLES staying together because they don’t have enough assets to share in a divorce, but for others love recession-style means splitsville.
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