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		<title>Hope Dies Last: The Lasting Scars of Difficult Times</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/11/16/hope-dies-last-the-lasting-scars-of-difficult-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Workman In America, there is no more terrifying a ghoul than the threat of sustained, cripplingly high unemployment. We hear about it all the time. Have maybe even decided just to tune it out or maybe the ubiquity of the bloodless discussion of it has just inured us to the subject. It’s just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Ways of Looking at Occupy Chicago: The Aesthetics of the Movement</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/11/09/13-ways-of-looking-at-occupy-chicago-the-aesthetics-of-the-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/11/09/13-ways-of-looking-at-occupy-chicago-the-aesthetics-of-the-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baudrillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Weitzel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Fawkes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob Cayia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Lazarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lennon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Looney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plato]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Zorach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tricia van Eck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wallace Steven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wislawa Szymborska]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=4344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Monica Westin 1. “Grant Park: three years later” was the initial vision for this article—a snapshot of the stark difference in Chicago’s political and emotional temperature between the downtown celebration of Barack Obama’s election night in 2008 and the Grant Park arrests in mid-October of this year. But this comparison doesn’t begin to get at what’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices in the Emptiness: Michael Esposito listens carefully to the Electronic Voice Phenomenon</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/10/26/voices-in-the-emptiness-michael-esposito-listens-carefully-to-the-electronic-voice-phenomenon/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/10/26/voices-in-the-emptiness-michael-esposito-listens-carefully-to-the-electronic-voice-phenomenon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Capone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Vail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Bell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brent Gutzeit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Arvo Zylo My first exposure to Electronic Voice Phenomena, or EVP, was late at night more than a decade ago, on Art Bell&#8217;s Coast to Coast AM radio talk show. People had been recording in an abandoned mental hospital, and all of a sudden a scary old lady said, “He broke my neck!” Later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soul Searching: Legend Tripping in the Ghost Culture of Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/10/19/soul-searching-legend-tripping-in-the-ghost-culture-of-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/10/19/soul-searching-legend-tripping-in-the-ghost-culture-of-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elmhurst]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naperville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bing Crosby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Fort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Cheadle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ichabod Crane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Todd Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Central College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P.T. Barnum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resurrection Mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William H. Mumler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=4199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Lutz I don’t believe in ghosts. But, if I did, it would be because of a weekend trip to Galena I took a few years back, when about ten seconds of “The Lovecats” by The Cure emanated from a closed laptop in the middle of the night. I was pretty freaked out at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s Biggest Fools</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/chicagos-biggest-fools/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/chicagos-biggest-fools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Chicago Thing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Dec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Zambrano]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lee Abrams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=3065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Hieggelke We live in a city of fools. Consider: our most famous living musical export, fool. The most powerful man in Chicago media (until recently), fool. Our World Series-winning baseball manager, fool. But it&#8217;s our politicians, and ex-politicians, who put us into a special category of our own. In fact, a certain ex-governor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Celebrity Scion Fool, Chet Haze</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/our-celebrity-scion-fool-chet-haze/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/our-celebrity-scion-fool-chet-haze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chet Haze]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=3041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frankly if you haven’t heard of Chet Haze, it’s understandable. But you’ve probably heard of his father. Tom Hanks is a multi-award winning actor, producer and director, but Chester (born Hanks) isn’t planning on going into the family business just yet. No, this year marked the launch of his hip-hop career in a dirty frat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Sporting Fool, Mike Ditka</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/our-sporting-fool-mike-ditka/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/our-sporting-fool-mike-ditka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jay Cutler]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=3046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we’re tired of our serpentine politicians, our slimy talk-show hosts and our punch-wielding punk-rock singers, we’ll always have Da Coach. Who, more than Mike Ditka, has the loudest, largest mouth? He’s Chicago’s coach of coaches, the man who shepherded great glory long ago but could never stop talking. A buffoon of a magnitude far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Artistic Fool, Matt Lamb</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/our-artistic-fool-matt-lamb/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/04/01/our-artistic-fool-matt-lamb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dali Lamb Museum]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=3051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Until they actually achieve it, every wanna-be art celebrity can be called a fool. Lured by the status of a glamorous occupation, time and money is thrown down the tube, usually against the wise counsel of family. For each and every successful actor, ballerina, or rock star, there are thousands of fools who came up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for My Barber: Who comes between a man and his vanity</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/03/08/requiem-for-my-barber-who-comes-between-a-man-and-his-vanity/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/03/08/requiem-for-my-barber-who-comes-between-a-man-and-his-vanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Patrick Roberts My North Side barber died a few weeks ago, and while I did not know him outside the small orbit of his barbershop, I am moved to write about his passing. Over the course of fifteen years I spent little more than a dozen hours with him. I know nothing of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romancing the River: Falling in love with the underbelly of the city from the water taxi</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2010/12/15/romancing-the-river-falling-in-love-with-the-underbelly-of-the-city-from-the-water-taxi/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2010/12/15/romancing-the-river-falling-in-love-with-the-underbelly-of-the-city-from-the-water-taxi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dina Elenbogen I am floating in the underbelly of the city, the same way the summer my son was an infant, walking along the lake with him strapped to my body at dawn, I’d feel as if I were moving through the underbelly of the day. On this boat I take to work, floating [...]]]></description>
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