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The List
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TRANSPORTATION
ParkWhiz.com allows you to reserve and prepay (with a 10 percent commission tacked on) for parking spots at participating garages in Chicago and lists locations and prices for most nonparticipating garages. To find a spot, type in your destination and the times you plan to park and return to your car. Those who own spare parking spaces can also list them and maybe make a few bucks.
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation's Web site, BikeTraffic.org, is filled with news, events, tips, and educational resources for area cyclists.
CTA-related headlines, in-depth data, and historical photos of trains, maps, stations, and lines that make up the second-largest U.S. transit system. Any CTA addict (you know who you are) will be in utter bliss at chicago-l.org.
CTATattler.com is the place to go to vent some spleen regarding the CTA. The site offers news on individual train delays and analysis of the endless, slow-motion financial problems. Users can also send and receive news alerts by cell phone.
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Traffic.com provides traffic reports, congestion maps, and weather in your browser, streamed to your desktop, by an automated phone call, or as text messages to your mobile device.
A great resource for mass transit users, TripsWeb.RTAChicago.com lets you type in your starting address and your destination and find what buses or trains to take and when you'll get there, customized for fewer transfers or less walking.
Reserve a van to O'Hare or Midway online—no hassles with taxis, public transit, or operators. It's cheaper than a cab, and no credit card is required. A downside: They don't pick up everywhere inside Chicago. (Most suburbs are covered.) (airport express.hudsonltd.net/res)
TRAVEL
For low-planning getaways, EnjoyIllinois.com highlights destinations such as Dickson Mounds Museum, Cave-in-Rock State Park's limestone cave, and the birthplace of Carl Sandburg.
WOMEN'S INTEREST
Blagica Stefanovski's blog GalsGuide.com gives firsthand advice and opinions on news, YouTube videos, saving money, budget shopping, dating, and the lives of Chicago 20-somethings.
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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.
For intense details about corruption among government officials and their staff see:
http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/
http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/