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		<title>Best of Chicago 2009: Letter from the Editor</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-of-chicago-2009-letter-from-the-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Celebrating the awesome nature of Chicago every day.&#8221;
That&#8217;s the answer that one of you offered up to our audience-survey question: &#8220;Best idea to salvage from Chicago 2016.&#8221; We couldn&#8217;t agree more—that could actually be our tagline.
When we sat down as a group of editors and writers to plan this, our seventeenth edition of the Best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best idea to salvage from Chicago 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stir the Soul
In this year after we sent the first Chicagoan to the White House, the spirit of possibility was never stronger. And no matter where you stood on the desirability of the Olympics bid, there was no denying the dynamic of seeing the city&#8217;s business, government and cultural communities banding together to try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best idea to forget about from Chicago 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Capone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jordan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Reese Hospital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second Cityitis
There was a pathetic undertone to much of the discourse surrounding the Chicago bid for the Olympics, which went along the lines that we need this to be a world-class city, that too much of the planet still thinks &#8220;Al Capone&#8221; when they hear &#8220;Chicago,&#8221; to which we say: bunk! In all of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best painter under the age of 25</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-painter-under-the-age-of-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperfect Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NADA Art Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post Family’s Family Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Niffenegger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Niffenegger
People should not get married nor should painters receive awards until reaching the age of 30 for the same reason: lack of maturity, but in the case of recently turned 24-year-old Rachel Niffenegger, possessing the uncanny ability to turn a palate of pinks, purples and pearlescents into grisly figurative masses, one can make an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best high-school murals to get teenaged boys interested in art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Albany Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lane Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Von Steuben Math and Science Academy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The reliefs at Von Steuben Math and Science Academy
The WPA-era murals featured at Lane Tech and other Chicago Public Schools through The Chicago Mural Preservation Project are widely known. While these works of art vividly depict scenes from American and world history, the artwork at Von Steuben Math and Science Academy seems to be aimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best place to live out &#8220;A River Runs Through It&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Fly Fishing Outfitters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Maclean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Fly Fishing Outfitters
The late University of Chicago professor Norman Maclean&#8217;s masterful semi-autobiographical novella depicted a spiritual euphoria in fly fishing the waters of the West, almost enough to make you want to pick up and head out there. Except you&#8217;d have to live in Montana. But you don&#8217;t need to, thanks to Chicago Fly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best local general-interest blog</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-local-general-interest-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Ebert's Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Ebert&#8217;s Journal
Some of us write for a living, but we suspect Roger Ebert writes to live. How else to explain why, after a career that nearly every writer would sell a soul for—Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for a major daily, star of an extremely successful television show, several best-selling books—his output seems to increase, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best place to buy women’s jewelry</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-place-to-buy-women%e2%80%99s-jewelry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Friends Diamonds & Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karla Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope John Paul II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Renegade Craft Fair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Best Friends Diamonds &#38; Gems
When she’s not helping clients select diamonds for custom engagement-ring settings, Karla Lewis, a gemologist who has gone so far as to collaborate with Vatican officials to fulfill an unlikely request for a remake of a ring worn by Pope John Paul II, raises the gold bar on philanthropy. “Some people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best accomplishment not yet carved on Burris&#8217; tombstone</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-accomplishment-not-yet-carved-on-burris-tombstone/</link>
		<comments>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-accomplishment-not-yet-carved-on-burris-tombstone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roland Burris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Knew When to Quit
Audience choice:
 Cast deciding vote on Universal Health Care
Best audience comments: 
&#8220;First African-American Senator Appointed by Impeached Governor&#8221;; &#8220;First man on Mars&#8221;; &#8220;Never Indicted&#8221;; &#8220;Winnie the Pooh impersonator extraordinaire&#8221;
Best of Chicago 2009
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		<title>Best actor to make Chicago proud this year</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-actor-to-make-chicago-proud-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://best.newcity.com/2009/11/11/best-actor-to-make-chicago-proud-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Red Orchid Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heath Ledger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Shannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Peterson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Shannon
It’s humbling when big-shot Hollywood actors like William Peterson return to their Chicago theater roots, but for stage actor turned Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, he never really left home. Raised in Lexington, Kentucky and Chicago, Shannon rose to prominence as a founding member of the tiny A Red Orchid Theatre. After acting in a [...]]]></description>
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