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October 2005
Features
The Lost DonWhen FBI agents showed up last spring to arrest the Chicago mob boss Joey “The Clown” Lombardo, there was a problem: he wasn't there, and he hasn't been seen since. But Lombardo is more than a... |
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How Healthy is Your Town - Methods and Sources |
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How Healthy is Your Town - Taking Chicago's TemperatureRating the city's neighborhoods for health factors. |
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How Healthy is Your Town - Superfund SitesSites undergoing extensive environmental cleanup. |
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How Healthy is Your Town - Smoke BombContentious battles loom over wide-ranging bans on smoking. |
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How Healthy is Your Town - Burned OutShutting down medical waste incinerators. |
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How Healthy Is Your Town - Best and WorstDiagnosing the well-being of 191 Chicago suburbs—and the city itself. |
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Hiding Between the LinesOver the course of 20 raucous years, J. J. Jameson became a fixture on the city's lively poetry circuit—a loud, drunken declaimer out of central casting. So his many friends were more than a... |
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About a BoyChicago's North Shore hardly seems the crucible for edgy punk-pop. But with a new CD that's already gone gold, and jam-packed concert crowds, Fall Out Boy has burst out of the suburbs (even though... |
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True BlueSapphires give a girl's best friend a mood of limitless mystery—think of the ocean, the sky, seductive azure eyes. |
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Can it Last?Despite concerns about a deflating real-estate bubble, local home prices continue their steady rise. Will Midwestern moderation help preserve the gains made in Chicago's housing market? |
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Dining Out |
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Bravo RioAt three Brazilian meat palaces, it's the little things that separate one from another—like nonstop filet mignon medallions coated in cracked black pepper. |
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Sports |
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Money PlayerOver the past five years, working with a middle-of-the-pack payroll, White Sox general manager Kenny Williams has made a series of bold, sometimes controversial moves. Will they make him this... |
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Cheers |
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Chic MagnetThe non-club club; Catwalk Fever; Celebrity Beat... |
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Business |
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How We Spend - Goblin It UpHalloween spending, interest rates and getting our veggies. |
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Hedge FunOver the past 15 years, Kenneth Griffin has quietly—even secretively—built one of the world's largest and most successful hedge funds. Now he and his wife, owners of a $60-million... |
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Arena |
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Writers on the Record - Louise ErdrichVictoria Lautman talks to the author about her new work, The Painted Drum |
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Think TankWhat do all the owners of one Hyde Park colonial revival have in common? A not-so-common pattern of success. |
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Style Sheet |
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Quick Trip to Mineral Point, WisconsinA folksy art scene. Glorious leaf peeping. And Cornish delights for all ages. |
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Play Stations |
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Oz FestThink you're a real Wizard of Oz fan? Think again. |
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Old SchoolA men's clothing store in Old Town takes a classic approach to service and promises to give grown-up guys a hip but decidedly polished new look. |
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Mending the SoxA summer-long stint in first place hasn't been enough to sell out the Cell. What would it take? Six experts opine. |
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Makeover ArtistsThree designers from the city's theatre scene host a new show that aims to funkify Chicago homes. |
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Golden GirlMidlifers find an appealing new heroine in Dorothy Jean Wetstra, the octogenarian star of a popular book series by a Glen Ellyn resident, Charlene Ann Baumbich. |
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Gadfly at LargeWhy is the eminent University of Chicago anthropologist Marshall Sahlins publishing pamphlets |
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Critical MassNoteworthy new book releases for October. |
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Deal Estate |
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The Year's Highest SalesIn metropolitan Chicago this past year, 2,146 homes sold for $1 million or more. And the priciest place, at $13.25 million, was—a onetime coach house? |
Copyright 2009 Chicago Magazine
