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The $3 cup
Some Chicagoans willing to pony up for craft coffee
03/03/2010 10:00 PM
With a Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts seemingly within any two-block radius and McDonald’s offering its new McCafé line of premium coffee and espresso, there are more than enough options for Chicagoans in need of a caffeine fix. But followers of locally owned Intelligentsia Coffee Co. have found a haven for the hot stuff that, in their eyes, those other chains simply don’t deliver.
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Winter walkers
A group of youngsters were towed by their teacher outside Lincoln Park Zoo on a recent snowy morning.
JASON GEIL/Staff Photographer
What saved Prescott?
School pulled off closing list at last second
03/03/2010
Jenn Lister was at home last Tuesday night when the phone rang. It was Robert Runcie, Chicago Public Schools Chief Adminsistrative Officer, and he had the news she was waiting to hear: William H. Prescott Elementary would not be closed.
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Mad for wings
Heart of the 'hood
03/03/2010
Who out there would like to come out for a really fun night for a very affordable $25? If this applies to you, then don’t miss the first annual Wing Madness 2010, being held April 7 at Dick’s Last Resort, 315 N. Dearborn. I’m telling you early, because tickets are going fast.
(No Comments) Read more...Epic road work on its way
Four big projects will start April 1
03/03/2010
Four interconnected road construction projects starting this spring will necessitate drastic, temporary changes to the usual entry and exit points to the Loop, and are expected to displace drivers from interstate highways to alternative routes cutting through city neighborhoods.
(No Comments) Read more...Seeds of suicide sown in childhood
03/03/2010
THE RECENT SUICIDE OF A TEENAGE SON OF FRIENDS prompts me to share the opinions and advice of psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts who believe the seeds of suicide are sown in childhood and are reaped after a final harvest of isolation from loved ones and hope, leading to self-destruction.
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