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		<title>Checkerboard City: Gangster Rap</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/05/22/checkerboard-city-gangster-rap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allison Peck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bicycle Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Frog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boiler Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cal’s Liquors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Peck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dharma Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flirty Cupcakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gunnar Street Dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handlebar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Longman & Eagle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorena Cupcake Caiazzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikki Munvez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Original Rainbow Cone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seagull Bags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiny Fix Bike Gang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wabi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield In a Midwestern town where folks dress conservatively, Chicago bike style icon Lorena Cupcake (her legal middle name) Caiazzo stands out like a handful of Skittles scattered across the Wall Street Journal. Easily spotted by her candy-colored outfits, rainbow-and-lollipops tattoo and messenger bag emblazoned “Cupcake Gangster,” she’s also an astute commentator on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: Streetcar Desire</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/05/15/checkerboard-city-streetcar-desire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wrigleyville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Streetcar Renaissance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Liu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Krause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maurice Ball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Hart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=6046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield Acid jazz pulsed on the sound system as a group of stylishly dressed transit fans clinked wine glasses last week at Vapiano, a sleek Italian restaurant at 2577 North Clark Street in Lincoln Park. They were there to launch the Chicago Streetcar Renaissance, a campaign to create a world-class streetcar line on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: Two-Wheeled Travelogues</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/05/08/checkerboard-city-two-wheeled-travelogues/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/05/08/checkerboard-city-two-wheeled-travelogues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Sodder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Singer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ira David Levy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justyna Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kati Lightholder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Neufeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Van Dellen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield As a sustainable transportation devotee, sometimes I have to remind myself that not everyone in this country is as fanatical about biking as I am. But &#8220;Pedal America,&#8221; a new travel series on PBS created and produced by Chicagoan Ira David Levy, aims to spread the gospel of cycling to the unconverted. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: The Southwest Passage</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/05/01/checkerboard-city-the-southwest-passage/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/05/01/checkerboard-city-the-southwest-passage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinatown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boeing Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brownlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cal’s Liquors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canal Origins Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canal Street Self Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Training Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois and Michigan Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lao Sze Chuan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ping Tom Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Rezko]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5904</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield A local ordinance requires that all new developments along the Chicago River include public access to the waterfront, so eventually there could be a network of riverwalks to rival the Lakefront Trail. But for now it takes a little detective work to navigate the waterway by bicycle. I’ve researched a few “stealth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: One Track Mind</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/04/24/checkerboard-city-one-track-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/04/24/checkerboard-city-one-track-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adham Fisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Downey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Mass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Resner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forrest Claypool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Baldwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Olsta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kidical Mass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikki Huber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bielaski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Presslak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Chainlink]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield “I wouldn’t call it an obsession,” said record-setting transit rider Adham Fisher via telephone last week. “And I wouldn’t call myself a trainspotter or a railfan because I don’t actually know about rolling stock, track gauge, infrastructure or anything like that. That isn’t what interests me about subway systems at all. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: Tripping on Lake Shore Drive</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/04/17/checkerboard-city-tripping-on-lake-shore-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/04/17/checkerboard-city-tripping-on-lake-shore-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Active Transportation Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Department of Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Velo Campus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emanuele Bianchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Sadler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Crandell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCaffery Interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Burton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasuta Mabwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Owingson & Merill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard J. Daley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Tomlinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skidmore]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield Earlier this month Mayor Emanuel held a press conference at the former U.S. Steel South Works (USX) site, a weed-strewn piece of vacant land bigger than the central Loop bulging into Lake Michigan from 79th to 92nd. He was there to herald the construction of a new $21 million, four-lane boulevard that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: Bike and Proud</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/04/10/checkerboard-city-bike-and-proud/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/04/10/checkerboard-city-bike-and-proud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bronzeville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humboldt Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyde Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pilsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eboni Senai Hawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenna Burton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major Taylor Cycling Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Bike and Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pioneers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield All Chicagoans should have a chance to reap the benefits of urban cycling: cheap, convenient transportation, improved physical and mental health and good times with friends and family. The proliferation of nonprofit bicycle shops and youth education programs, along with the rising popularity of fixies among inner-city teens, is starting to broaden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: Zero North/South</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/04/03/checkerboard-city-zero-northsouth/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/04/03/checkerboard-city-zero-northsouth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Austin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duane Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Hampton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Douglas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harold Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jordan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard J. Daley]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield Chicago’s Madison Street, named for one of the chief authors of the United States Constitution, runs through some of the most expensive real estate in town as well as some of the most underserved neighborhoods. As the city’s north-south bifurcating street, it forms the Mason-Dixon Line between the North Side and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: Mission to Madison</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/03/27/checkerboard-city-mission-to-madison/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/03/27/checkerboard-city-mission-to-madison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frozen Snot Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitsuwa Marketplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TheChainlink.org]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield Back in 2005 when Illinois Governor Pat Quinn was second-in-command under Blago, he did cyclists a huge favor by bullying Metra into allowing bikes on board. This opened up a whole new world of options for affordable, car-free road trips–even after the commuter rail system hiked its fares last year, a weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkerboard City: To ‘L’ and Back</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/03/13/checkerboard-city-to-l-and-back/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/03/13/checkerboard-city-to-l-and-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Checkerboard City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Resner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eleni Pappageorge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Pants Subway Ride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waltzing Mechanics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=5180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield Driving cuts you off from the outside world, but walking, biking and especially public transit encourage interaction with strangers, which can lead to some unforgettable encounters. The performance piece “EL Stories,” based on real tales from CTA commuters recorded by Waltzing Mechanics theater company, capitalizes on this. “The Chicago ‘L’ is a [...]]]></description>
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