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August 26, 2006

The Marx Brothers of Chicago

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July 29, 2006

Lakefront Totem Pole Contains Many Tales

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July 08, 2006

Uncovering the Tooth at the Art Institute

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June 24, 2006

...is lost in the stacks.

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June 10, 2006

GB Book Club: The Man with the Golden Arm

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May 27, 2006

Ogden Avenue and Urban Renewal in Old Town

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May 11, 2006

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

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April 27, 2006

Booklist Online, New Spring Titles and What We're Reading Now

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April 20, 2006

Remember Earth Day?

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April 13, 2006

GB Book Club: Near West Side Stories: Struggles for Community in Chicago's Maxwell Street Neighborhood

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April 06, 2006

The Untouchable Eliot Ness

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March 23, 2006

Celebrate Small Press Month

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March 16, 2006

GB Book Club Review: Memory Mambo

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February 23, 2006

La Salle: From French Explorer to City Street

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February 16, 2006

GB Book Club: I Sailed with Magellan

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February 09, 2006

Chicago Burns Again: The Second Great Fire

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February 02, 2006

They Called Him Sauganash

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January 26, 2006

Discovering Local Authors

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January 19, 2006

Chicago by the Numbers

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January 12, 2006

Gapers Block Book Club: Division Street: America by Studs Terkel

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December 29, 2005

Get Your Skates On

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December 22, 2005

Chicago Card Decks Shuffle Up Some Fun

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December 01, 2005

GB Book Club: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

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November 24, 2005

2005 Chicago Books in Review: Fiction

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November 17, 2005

2005 Chicago Books in Review: Non-Fiction

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November 10, 2005

The Curse of the Hall of Fame

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November 03, 2005

In Search of Great Lakes

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October 27, 2005

Dillinger Still Haunts Popular Memory

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October 20, 2005

Local Haunted Houses

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October 13, 2005

Gapers Block Book Club: I'm Not the New Me

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October 06, 2005

Tarzan in Chicago

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September 22, 2005

GB Book Club: Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon

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September 08, 2005

More Questions from the Mailbag

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September 01, 2005

So You Wanna Know More About Richard J. Daley

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August 18, 2005

Pick Your Own: Local Apple Orchards and Remembering Wauconda

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August 11, 2005

Gapers Block Book Club: Dandelion Wine

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August 04, 2005

Charles Cleaver and the Cottage in the Grove

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July 28, 2005

We Totally Have the Best Flag

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July 21, 2005

Become a Butterfly Watcher

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July 14, 2005

Gapers Block Book Club: Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg

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July 07, 2005

Don't Fear the Reaper

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June 30, 2005

A Chicago Joke Book

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June 23, 2005

Ashland Avenue, the Great Fire and the Ruins of Chicago

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June 16, 2005

Gapers Block Book Club: Crossing California

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June 09, 2005

They Called Him Sauganash

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June 02, 2005

Italo Balbo and Chicago's Gift from Fascist Italy

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May 26, 2005

Goose Island

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May 19, 2005

Chicago Area Library Blogs

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May 12, 2005

Gapers Block Book Club: The Time Traveler's Wife

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May 05, 2005

City Streets: How Chicago Raised Itself Out of the Mud and Astonished the World

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April 28, 2005

Mailbag Grab Bag

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April 21, 2005

Palmer Square

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April 14, 2005

Gapers Block Book Club April Book: The Jungle

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April 07, 2005

Separate Proms

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March 31, 2005

Measuring the Chicago Mile

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March 24, 2005

Striking Up the Band on Music Row

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March 17, 2005

1919: Chicago's Red Summer

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March 10, 2005

Gapers Block Book Club March Book: Hairstyles of the Damned

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March 03, 2005

Introducing the Gapers Block Book Club

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February 24, 2005

The Last Man on the Moon

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February 17, 2005

Powwows and Tribal Traditions Alive in Uptown

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February 10, 2005

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Honorary Street Signs

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February 03, 2005

Chicago's Queen of Gospel Song

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January 27, 2005

Chicago and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918

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January 20, 2005

Who's Your Granddaddy?: Illinois Family History Resources Online

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January 13, 2005

The Beer Baron and the Baroque Mansion

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December 30, 2004

This Year Resolve to Make a Difference

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December 23, 2004

Rudolph the Chi-town Reindeer and Other Christmas Tales

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December 16, 2004

The Real Christmas Schooner

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December 09, 2004

The LaSalle National Bank Building

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December 02, 2004

Chicago: The Movable Bridge Capital of the World

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November 18, 2004

Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News: Chicago Healthcare Resources

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November 11, 2004

West Ridge and Chicago's Asian Indian Community

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November 04, 2004

Charles Tyson Yerkes and the Rise of Chicago's Mass Transit

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October 28, 2004

Death in Chicago: A Mysterious Reading List

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October 21, 2004

Chicago's Best Haunted Houses and Halloween Attractions

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October 14, 2004

Tarzan's Chicago

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October 07, 2004

John Hume Kedzie and Friends

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September 30, 2004

Illinois Voter Registration and Election Resources Revisited

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September 23, 2004

When Bicycles Ruled Chicago

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September 16, 2004

Roscoe Street, or Why So Many Chicago Streets Are Named for Towns in Pennsylvania

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September 02, 2004

Where Are Chicago's Poets?

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August 25, 2004

Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Chicago

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August 19, 2004

Clinton's Big Ditch

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August 12, 2004

Art Deco Theatre is a Suburban Gem

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August 05, 2004

Punkin' Donuts and the Battle of Belmont

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July 22, 2004

A Bibliography of Chicago Gentrification

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July 14, 2004

Show Me Your Green Thumb: Chicagoland Gardening

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July 08, 2004

Division Street and the Transformations of a Community

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July 01, 2004

Theodore Dreiser

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June 17, 2004

Why Native Chicagoans Know So Much About Local Architecture

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June 10, 2004

Father Arnold Damen (Avenue)

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June 03, 2004

The Lake Michigan Cribs

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May 27, 2004

Road Trip! Web Resources for Planning a Midwestern Getaway

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May 20, 2004

James T. Farrell

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May 13, 2004

The John Hancock Center

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May 06, 2004

The Chicago Picasso: A Gift from One of the Greatest Artists of the 20th Century to a City He Never Saw

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April 29, 2004

This is the Story of a Man Named Brady

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April 22, 2004

National Library Week

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April 15, 2004

Italo Balbo and Chicago's Forgotten Gift from Fascist Italy

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April 08, 2004

The Bronzeville Tomb of Stephen A. Douglas

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April 01, 2004

Twinkies: Another Fine Chicago Invention

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March 25, 2004

The Yellow Brick Road Began in Humboldt Park

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March 18, 2004

Happy Illinois Food Products Month! and Other Real "Holidays"

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March 11, 2004

New York, LA, Chicago: We Totally Have the Best City Flag

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March 04, 2004

Where are Chicago's Fiction Writers?

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February 26, 2004

What's the Deal with All Those Motels on North Lincoln Avenue?

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February 12, 2004

How Chicago Raised Itself out of the Mud and Astonished the World

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February 05, 2004

Illinois Voter Registration and Election Resources

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January 29, 2004

From Checagou to Chicago: A City by No Other Name

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January 22, 2004

Go Forth and Replicate! An Introduction to Memes

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January 15, 2004

Who is Buried in Couch's Tomb?

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January 08, 2004

Chicago and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918

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January 01, 2004

General John A. Logan and Logan Square

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December 18, 2003

Hail to the Chef

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December 11, 2003

The Librarian is on vacation. Check back next week.

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December 04, 2003

Ashland, the Great Fire, and the Ruins of Chicago

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November 27, 2003

Charles Tyson Yerkes and the Rise of Chicago's Mass Transit

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November 20, 2003

Anime and Manga: Resources on the Web

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November 13, 2003

Lill & Diversey: A Short History of Early Chicago Brewing

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November 06, 2003

What's in a Name? The Magnificent Mile and the Development of North Michigan Avenue

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October 30, 2003

The Haunted Wal-Mart and Other True Tales of Terror

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October 23, 2003

Resurrection Mary

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October 16, 2003

Indian Summer and a Dickens of a Tale

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October 09, 2003

The Answer to a "Shocking" Question

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October 02, 2003

Measuring a Chicago Mile

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September 25, 2003

A Tale of Two Ballparks, Part 2

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September 18, 2003

A Tale of Two Ballparks, Part 1

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September 11, 2003

JFK... the AntiChrist?

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September 04, 2003

Cruisin' down Sheridan Road

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