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The List
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SHOPPING
Use SeeMoreShopping.com to find stores by category of merchandise, shopping mall, retailer, brand name, or city/neighborhood. Street-by-street analysis is available under What You'll Find Here.
The Tribune's "Answer Angel" Ellen Warren's blog covers all things shopping, from puzzling questions about buying fresh flowers to finding a personal shopper. (featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/shopping_ellen_warren)
Melissa Maynard launched Factio-Magazine.com in 2002 as a way to showcase Chicago boutique openings, local and national designers, and videos of designers. Subscribers to the free e-mail list receive VIP invites to parties.
DailyCandy.com/chicago gives addicts a daily shopping fix in a sassy chick-lit style, with updates every day on what's hot, new, and undiscovered, from fashion and style to gadgets, travel, beauty, dining, and more. Subscribe for free daily e-mails.
Recent launch CheapUncle.com (based in Hoffman Estates) compares prices on the same item at different online stores, as many meta-search tools do, but it also searches for and includes discounts from e-coupons.
SPORTS
The local pro teams’ official sites cover stories that don’t even make page C16. Check out the progress of Wrigley Field’s new drainage system at Chicago.Cubs.MLB.com. Sox middle reliever contracts are dissected at Chicago.WhiteSox.MLB.com. At NBA.com/Bulls, players Ben Gordon and Luol Deng keep blogs. Copious videos of player and coach interviews are available at ChicagoBears.com. Blackhawks.NHL.com runs alternately bitter and hopeful feature stories. All sell tickets to games, keep updated stats, and host discussion forums.
Bocce, baton, and badminton program times, places, and costs are findable with the search tool at ChicagoParkDistrict.com, along with info on city parks, events, and facilities.
Whether you're thinking about running your first 5K or your next marathon, you can find out about road races, training, and safety tips on Chicago Area Runners Association's CARARuns.org.
The full name of the collaboratively written Cubs fan/obsessive blog GoatRiders.org is "Goat Riders of the Apocalypse, bringing you Cubs news, analysis and humor until the end of the world." Is that the day the Cubs win the World Series?
SoxTalk.com/forums gives White Sox fans a sounding board for armchair trade analysis and proclamations of doom. Commentary and news on local and national sports from more than 20 contributors are published at Chicago SportsReview.com, plus plentiful links to coverage elsewhere.
CSWeekly.com, a free weekly sports magazine run by former Chicago Sports Review editor Chris Sprow, showcases original reporting and features, written by approximately 20 regular contributors.
Curse, banter, and sound off about how this might be the year at The Cub Reporter, MVN.com/MLB-Cubs, featuring Cubs-related news, rumors, updates, and commentary from bloggers like "Arizona Phil," "Transmission," and "Cubnut."
If the time between fall Sundays seems like an eternity, check out Bears blog WindyCityGridiron.com (slogan: "Being Who You Thought We Were Since 2005!"), for game recaps and judiciously quoted links to Bears coverage, along with links to other diehard-NFL-fan blogs.
Truehoop.com's Henry Abbott calls Blogabull.com the "patron saint of basketball blogging." The various diaries sometimes draw 300 or more comments per post.
THEATRE
Half-price tickets for more than 190 local theatres can be found at HotTix.org. Browse the list of shows with tickets available; then buy either from one of the three HotTix storefronts or online for pickup at the box office. A service charge of $2.25 to $5 goes to the League of Chicago Theatres, and a $3 handling fee covers HotTix' expenses.
ChicagoPlays.com features a tool for searching live-theatre performance listings (of members of the League of Chicago Theatres) by title, date, venue, company, and several other criteria. It also promotes Theater Thursdays, performance-plus-reception events.
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Congrats on the accolades! It's nice to be recognized for putting something together that has a good scope, relevant to the people around you, and features lots of cool links and pics to check out!
A great website that should go under Arts & Culture is the Chicago-based video magazine www.getfreshcut.com. They do interviews with up-and-coming artists, musicians and filmmakers and their blog covers all sorts of new media stories.
Another great Chicago-based website that didn't make the list is http://www.NeighborHuddle.com. This site connects Chicago area homeowner and condo associations internally and with eachother. Developers can also simplify the turnover of their projects to the associations using the website. It's great!
http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/ The best technology, search engine and advertising blog in Chicago
Another emerging startup out of Chicago is the corporate social networking website Offiscion (www.offiscion.com). Offiscion allows peers in organizations to connect, communicate, and collaborate with one another.
Great Chicago TV Museum site: www.FuzzyMemories.TV
If you ever make a list like this again, you need to include Hockeenight, which is the first place I go after a Blackhawks game.
www.csac.biz is a great Chicago resource for sports fans and collectors looking to meet their favotrie pro athletes.
I have just read your article on the 171 best websites in Chicago, and unfortunatly you listed rogersparkbench.blogspot.com as one of your picks under the neighborhoods category.
On that website today Tom Mannis writes about the News-Star and Booster being sold. There is nothing factual in his writing,NOTHING. None of the statements he makes there are true. The Readers article about it is true. Tom is just a bitter man because he was told his freelance services were no longer wanted at those papers. Unfortunately, this is the method of operation for his blog, flying of the handle "journalism", without checking facts he constantly finds himself with his foot in his mouth. You should have listed this site under "fictional entertainment" for it certainly is not news.
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http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/