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	<title>The Chicago Weekly Blog &#187; Politics &amp; Labor</title>
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		<title>Update: Chicago Aldermanic Ward Redistricting</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2012/01/21/update-chicago-aldermanic-ward-redistricting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Fixsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aldermanic Ward Redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Ward Remap]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, City Council approved a map for Chicago&#8217;s 50 aldermanic wards. The decision comes after a many-month saga of debate both in and out of city hall. “This has taken longer than the Sistine Chapel,&#8221; said 40th ward alderman Pat O’Connor to the Chicago Sun-Times. Discussions got so heated in early December Aldermen almost came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CW UPDATE: How Much is a Life Worth?</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2011/10/31/cw-update-how-much-is-a-life-worth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2011/10/31/cw-update-how-much-is-a-life-worth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maddie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyde Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, we published a feature story about the lack of a trauma center on the South Side. Here&#8217;s an update on that issue. Today (October 31) at 3:30pm, members of Fearless Leading by the Youth and Students for Health Equity will lead a march from 61st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, the site of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CW UPDATE: Swept Under the Rug</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2011/10/19/cw-update-swept-under-the-rug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lurye</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyde Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the Chicago Weekly published a feature entitled Swept Under the Rug about University of Chicago housekeeping staff layoffs. Here's an update on that issue.]]></description>
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		<title>Parks and Wreck</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2011/10/18/parks-and-wreck/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2011/10/18/parks-and-wreck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Sacco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butternut Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Parks District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Park Desert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many parts of Chicago are not privilege to easy access to quality public parks. A recent series of reports by the Chicago Tribune drew attention to Chicago’s “park deserts”: areas in which the city’s self-established standard of two acres of open space per 1,000 citizens is not met.]]></description>
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		<title>Could you have your very own City of Chicago garbage truck?</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2011/01/04/could-you-have-your-very-own-city-of-chicago-garbage-truck/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2011/01/04/could-you-have-your-very-own-city-of-chicago-garbage-truck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Dalke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Labor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(image courtesy of fieldtechnologies.com) Yes you could. Or at least if you vote Rahm Emanuel for mayor. A press release from Emanuel’s campaign today announced that the mayoral candidate is proposing to allow private sponsorship of Garbage trucks, vehicle stickers, and city-sponsored events (such as farmer’s markets) in order to raise money for after school programs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhymefest campaign update, kick-off concert</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/11/14/rhymefest-campaign-update-kick-off-concert/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/11/14/rhymefest-campaign-update-kick-off-concert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Backlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back of the Yards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Englewood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Woodlawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[20th ward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alderman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminal charges]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Shrine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Che &#8220;Rhymefest&#8221; Smith kicks off his campaign for alderman of the 20th ward tonight at the South Loop nightclub The Shrine. Already Kanye-endorsed, the rapper will be joined on stage tonight by Lupe Fiasco. But his campaign is already facing less glittery attention. Two weeks ago, CW writer Tobi Haslett covered Rhymefest&#8217;s press conference announcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Update on the Whittier Occupation</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/11/14/an-update-on-the-whittier-occupation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/11/14/an-update-on-the-whittier-occupation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Backlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture and Urbanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pilsen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sit-in]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 28th, forty three days after parents at Whittier Elementary School in Pilsen began a sit-in to prevent the destruction of the school&#8217;s fieldhouse, CPS delivered a letter signed by CEO Ron Huberman that formalized agreements made eight days earlier. The field-house will be leased to the Parent Committee for $1 a year as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mick Dumke writes up a Washington Park CAPS meeting</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/06/07/mick-dumke-writes-up-a-washington-park-caps-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/06/07/mick-dumke-writes-up-a-washington-park-caps-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Feldman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mick Dumke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willie Cochran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Reader&#8217;s Mick Dumke went to the CAPS meeting for beat 234 in Washington Park last Thursday night, and it sounds like the locals weren&#8217;t happy. From sinkholes in the streets to prostitutes in the park to an alley drug market disguised as an impromptu auto shop, Washington Park residents have a lot to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember that Olympic bid?</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/04/23/remember-that-olympic-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/04/23/remember-that-olympic-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellis Calvin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bronzeville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2016 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Reese Hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic Stadium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic Village]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our former Editor-in-Chief Sam Feldman has written an excellent feature for this week&#8217;s Newcity on the aftermath of Chicago&#8217;s failed 2016 bid, some six months after losing to Rio de Janeiro. The remants of Chicago&#8217;s plans, plans it hoped would &#8220;stir the blood of men,&#8221; in the (alleged) words of Daniel Burnham, can especially be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Village street vendors</title>
		<link>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/03/22/little-village-street-vendors/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.chicagoweekly.net/2010/03/22/little-village-street-vendors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Peterson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gapers Block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In These Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street vendors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gapers Block recently published an article and video about Chicago&#8217;s street vendors, many of whom can be found on the sidewalks of Little Village selling elotes (corn with mayo, cheese, and chili powder), chicharrones (pork rinds), and other cheap, delicious snacks. It&#8217;s currently illegal to sell food that&#8217;s been prepared at a street cart in Chicago, [...]]]></description>
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