Category: Future of News

As they pick up the pieces of their dashed Olympic dreams, city officials this week are hashing out a “plan B” for a piece of land on the Near South Side that they once hoped would be home to a…

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Five weeks into the school year there is still no sign of a yellow school bus for some students on the city’s Northwest Side attending the Coonley Regional Gifted Center, forcing many working…

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Print publishers facing same disruption from technology that is transforming other industries.

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Dozens of parents from Pasteur Elementary School in West Lawn voiced their outrage about school overcrowding at the Sept. 30 Chicago Board of Education meeting. Everado Mares, chairman of…

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“The Republican Party has ramped up its opposition to Federal Communications Commission proposals to enact tough net neutrality rules with a call for the agency to conduct a “market analysis” of the…

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Advertising Age’s Abbey Klaassen tells us what Google’s Wave is. The examples help understand how it is email, but its not… “As an illustration of e-mail’s shortcomings that Google thinks Wave can…

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Calling all D.I.Y. ers. Get in on this opportunity for 2009.

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A move toward open mobile devices. Support for Google voice. My next carrier?

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Rules of Social Netiquette and mobile phones

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An ordinance to allow taxi drivers to park overnight on side streets in a congested Far North Side neighborhood, creating a possible alternative to muggings and robberies, was postponed last week. …

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