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		<title>Brain Gain: Six Ideas Chicago Should Steal from Other Cities</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/10/12/brain-gain-six-ideas-chicago-should-steal-from-other-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/10/12/brain-gain-six-ideas-chicago-should-steal-from-other-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[City Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Villaraigosa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Frisbie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray LaHood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Feldman They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Chicago’s received its fair share. We pioneered the steel-frame skyscraper, the Ferris wheel, and the electric blues, all worldwide hits. We started studying the idea of turning the abandoned two-point-seven-mile Bloomingdale Line into an elevated park in 1998, a year before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Freedom: Can Open Streets downtown sell City Hall on future ciclovias?</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/09/28/state-of-freedom-can-open-streets-downtown-sell-city-hall-on-future-ciclovias/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/09/28/state-of-freedom-can-open-streets-downtown-sell-city-hall-on-future-ciclovias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[8-80 Cities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adolfo Hernandez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brent Norsman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Steele]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Cyclery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlace Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gil Peñalosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaime de Leon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Kim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logan Square Neighborhood Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looptopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucy Gomez-Feliciano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Streets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Streets on State Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proco “Joe” Moreno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Neufeld]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rob Sadowsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ty Tabing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=4101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield “On State Street, that great street, I just want to say They do things they don’t do on Broadway” —“Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)” by Fred Fisher The question is, can Chicago do on State Street what New York City already does successfully, not on Broadway but on Park Avenue; what San Francisco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: Tour de Fat fetes Beer Drinkers, Bike Riders and Beer-Drinking Bike Riders</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/07/14/411-tour-de-fat-fetes-beer-drinkers-bike-riders-and-beer-drinking-bike-riders/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/07/14/411-tour-de-fat-fetes-beer-drinkers-bike-riders-and-beer-drinking-bike-riders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logan Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mucca Pazza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Belgium Brewing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Daredevil Chickens Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dovekins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tour de Fat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=3569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“If Tour de Fat was a drug,” an attendee to the cycling festival says on its Facebook page, “I’d say it was the same chemical compounds released in your brain and euphoric experience that we know as love.” Those interested in the way beer, free music and bicycle riding can stimulate that particular feeling would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making strides: Can the Chicago Pedestrian Plan make mean streets safer for pedestrians?</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/06/27/making-strides-can-the-chicago-pedestrian-plan-make-mean-streets-safer-for-pedestrians/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/06/27/making-strides-can-the-chicago-pedestrian-plan-make-mean-streets-safer-for-pedestrians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Active Transportation Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Department of Transportation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John MacManus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Giron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This June evening is too pretty for the subway, so I bicycle south to the Pink Line’s California station to meet up with the Active Transportation Alliance’s Tony Giron. He’s leading a march across the largely Mexican-American neighborhood of Little Village to Farragut High School for the first of seven public input meetings on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forty: Turning a milestone into an epic hike across suburbia</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/05/11/forty-turning-a-milestone-into-an-epic-hike-across-suburbia/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/05/11/forty-turning-a-milestone-into-an-epic-hike-across-suburbia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News etc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albany Home Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alkaline Trio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America’s Brewpub at the Roundhouse Complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angelo Caputo’s Fresh Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Graham Center Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Yung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene and Jude’s]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lunar Brewing Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Radio Flyer Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rose & Stanley Sacharski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tong’s Tiki Hut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Two Brothers Tap House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Payton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warrenville Grove Forest Preserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheaten Central High School]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=3191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Greenfield It’s a Sunday night in Aurora and a fiberglass dinosaur wearing the #34 jersey of Chicago Bears legend Walter Payton smiles down at my friend Eric and me as we clink glasses of Sweetness Stout, toasting the end of another epic walk. We’re at America’s Brewpub at the Roundhouse Complex, formerly co-owned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off the Menu: Alderman Joe Moore lets Rogers Parkers pick their poison</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/04/12/off-the-menu-alderman-joe-moore-lets-rogers-parkers-pick-their-poison/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/04/12/off-the-menu-alderman-joe-moore-lets-rogers-parkers-pick-their-poison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rogers Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Lisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sue Bibber]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=3100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forty-ninth Ward alderman Joe Moore is famous for his crusades against big-box stores and foie gras, but lately he’s been having more success with a new initiative called participatory budgeting. In this process, regular folks recommend projects for public funding and vote on how the cash is spent. First pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil, participatory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: Traffic Jamming</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/03/16/411-traffic-jamming/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/03/16/411-traffic-jamming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Active Transportation Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Spotts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=2983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day, thousands of people bicycle to work via the Lakefront Trail spanning Chicago’s beautiful lakefront parks and connecting neighborhoods from Edgewater to Hyde Park with the Loop. As part of its role to promote bicycling, walking and public transit over environmentally costly and sedentary forms of travel, Chicago’s Active Transportation Alliance has been monitoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ski for Yourself: Whipping winter on its own terms</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/02/01/ski-for-yourself-whipping-winter-on-its-own-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/02/01/ski-for-yourself-whipping-winter-on-its-own-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Sather’s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garfield Park Conservatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hala Kahiki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Washington Library]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=2813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Chicago is a superior city in most respects, I suspect that Minneapolis, a much colder, snowier town, is actually a place where more people enjoy the winter. This is because residents of the Twin Cities, with their strong Scandinavian heritage, know how to embrace the season, donning cheerful woolen clothing and diving into cold-weather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: A Walk through the Park&#8217;s History</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2010/11/30/411-a-walk-through-the-parks-history/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2010/11/30/411-a-walk-through-the-parks-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends of Downtown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Okrent]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=2570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever gone to Lollapalooza, attended a concert at Millennium Park&#8217;s Pritzker Pavilion or simply strolled through its elegant gardens, you should consider joining Lawrence Okrent and the Friends of Downtown this Thursday, December 2, for a brown-bag luncheon presentation about the origins and rich history of Grant Park. Urban planning and zoning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pedestrian Idea: Why it&#8217;s time for the city to value walkers as much as drivers</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2010/09/29/a-pedestrian-idea-why-its-time-for-the-city-to-value-walkers-as-much-as-drivers/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2010/09/29/a-pedestrian-idea-why-its-time-for-the-city-to-value-walkers-as-much-as-drivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Becker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Kudelka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Steele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Department of Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pete Strazzabosco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vince Sanchez]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=2276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ella Christoph Taxis honk and confused minivans hover midintersection. Bikes slide through the streets dodging doors and inflexible drivers. The crowd at the corner builds as commuters come to a halt—“Don’t Walk”—purses and briefcases still swinging. They are sprinters, waiting for the race to start up yet again, and their toes grip the edge [...]]]></description>
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