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Discover Chicago's best things to do, events, restaurants, theater and nightlife
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- Movies in the Parks
- Taste of Lincoln Avenue
- Chicago SummerDance
- Millennium Park Summer Film Series
- Newberry Library Book Fair
- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Depraved New World
- Robyn & Röyksopp
- "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938"
- Bristol Renaissance Faire
- Lollapalooza
- "Art Alliance: The Provocateurs"
- Riot Fest announces day to day lineups
- A new study finds that Chicago isn't a great city for recreation
- Why so sad, Jack White?
- Batman Day celebrates the Dark Knight's 75th anniversary
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- Meet Hala, our Single of the Week
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City life
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Chicago's best
The 10 craziest things we overheard this week
I should have taken the opportunity to cheat on my wife more often.
I don't fuck with that Hostess stuff. It gives you ass cancer.
I like her sweater, but I don't like her face.
If I was a bum, I would go to a tortilla factory, those things are like a $1.00 and you get hundred in bag!
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