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Summer Dance ends this year's program with a big swing in Grant Park
Last dance

09/01/2010
The dance day started Sunday in Grant Park with a couple of hundred people working out the steps for East Coast Swing as instructors from the Fred Astaire Dance Studio demonstrated from the stage.
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Aldermen ask CPS for magnet school access
Expanded Jackson program touted as solution to neighborhood complaints
09/01/2010
Responding to community wishes, two Chicago aldermen last week recommended that Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman expand the Andrew Jackson Language Academy to address claims of a poor choice in neighborhood schools by some residents in areas of the 2nd and 25th wards.
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Chicago entrepreneur makes a go in the online coupon business
Small-scale success

09/01/2010
It’s hard to image that a desire for inexpensive sushi and hairdos would drive a small business to success by topping electronic coupon searches in the South Loop. But one neighborhood entrepreneur is linking urban dwellers with the deals they seek.
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Swim. Bike. Run.

09/01/2010
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Thousands beefing up business skills in Chicago MBA programs ... before economic recovery beings
Waiting for change
09/01/2010
Condo sales up
New construction running ahead of 2009
09/01/2010
As bleak as Chicago’s new-construction condominium market looks, there are a few rays of sunshine filtering through the gloom, real estate analysts say.
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Parents: Smyth not good enough
Issues of poor performance at neighborhood school drive parents’ request for expanded choice
08/25/2010
Park expands life in West Loop
Years in the making, Adams and Sangamon Park opens

08/25/2010
With some old-school fanfare of speeches, a Boy Scout color guard and a few brass instruments, Adams and Sangamon Park officially opened Saturday and, in doing so, added more open space to the West Loop.
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Strike called off
Local 73 says UIC moved a little closer to tentative agreement
08/25/2010
With the largest labor strike of the Obama presidency days away, University of Illinois-Chicago leadership late last week budged from its zero-pay-increase stance and closer to a tentative agreement with Local 73 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
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Church moving to new home
Five-year lease with future options expected to expand the South Loop Community Church
08/25/2010
Sunday will be the last time 70 parishioners of South Loop Community Church settle into their seats at the Sherwood Auditorium in the 1300 block of South Michigan Avenue — a tight fit for their gathering. The temporary Sunday service quarters, used for nine years, will soon be left behind for life in a more inclusive whole-church space on South State Street.
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