In 1982 Michael Salvatori recorded a sought-after private-press folk LP, and 19 years later he cowrote the score for genre-defining video game Halo.
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Judge drops cop from Cedrick Chatman suit, Chicago Law gets fast-tracked, and other Chicago news
Also, a suburban show choir survives a bus fire, and the Bulls memories we may want to forget.
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In predominantly white Wheaton, a barbecue joint crosses the color line
The owner of Steamboat Barbecue in Wheaton, John Bovinette, visited 47 states to learn a variety of techniques for smoking meats.
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Parsing the Chick-fil-A Tent City
The Chick-fil-A-ville phenomenon comes to the Chicago area, bringing free chicken promises and a side of God.
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Fun with city ratings
Forget “best.” Break it down. Where in the Midwest are the places with the cheapest houses, skinniest people, and cleanest air?
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In Search of the Suburban Reader/Cooperative Cartooning
In Search of the Suburban Reader It was Pat Colander who spotted the eerie parallels: this paper’s readers and the inhabitants of Naperville, the DuPage County suburb 35 miles to the southwest, show up in the computer readouts as peas in a pod. An erstwhile Reader staff writer who made a name for herself chronicling […]