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How to Bring Out the Worst In Chicagoans

Who has the best fans? Cubs? Sox? If WMAQ’s findings are any indication, I vote “neither:” JAKE SAYS: thee cubs fans have been waiting 101 years they cry if there team looses and so what if the cub fans drink a lot isnt that what going to a baseball game is aboutt CUBS RULE SAYS: [...]

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Your Government Hates You, Baseball

We try not to get too political around here but if you live in the state of Illinois, you really should read this: According to the records, contact between Tribune Co. and the governor’s office accelerated after an earlier state effort to buy Wrigley Field fell through in June. That failed deal involved the Illinois [...]

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The Two Most Powerful Men In Chicago Sports

Once again, it’s never really about the game.

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Decision ’08

Everything you need to know in time for this Election Day.

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First and Last Month’s, Plus Deposit

Want a great deal on rent in Chicago? Try building a stadium.

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  • "[New] Comiskey's tragedy is one of hype, not hubris. Sold to the public as a new-fangled stadium with old fashioned intimacy, it is in fact a theater designed by the dictates of the dollar -- a theater in which perception and reality combine to form the wrong sort of high drama."
    - Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune architecture reporter