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April 2012
Your Top 5 Plans This Week
On your agenda: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater bounds into town for a five-day engagement … Lizzy Caplan premieres her new flick at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival … Art, photography, and film are fair game for the fashion designers featured at the Art Institute Read more
Life in the Slow Lane: Get Used To It
By Dennis Rodkin
A new federal report has provided yet another sign that Chicago’s housing market is in the slow lane on the road to recovery. The report, issued last week with the government’s monthly housing scorecard, noted that, during the past year, the area saw a 1.5 percent increase in the number of homes at risk of foreclosure, rising from 125,400 homes in January 2011 to 127,300 homes in January 2012... Read more
Ozzie Guillen Suspended for Being Ozzie Guillen
By Whet Moser
Bowing to pressure from public officials, the Miami Marlins are keeping their new manager off the bench for five games after his "pro-Castro" comments. It might seem like absurd overreach... or it could be an exciting new frontier in public policy. Read more