December 2011
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Free Knitting Classes for CPS High Schoolers!
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Bread + Wine
Get Excited! The much anticipated opening of Bread & Wine, a neighborhood American bistro, wine bar and market on Chicago’s Northwest Side, is scheduled for mid-January 2012.
Focusing on farm to table fare, Bread & Wine is dedicated to elevated, nostalgic, Midwestern fare.
Owners Lisa Fosler Kelly, a lawyer, chef and the wine manager, and Jennifer Wisniewski, an experienced restaurant...
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Single Most Important Blog Post From Me Ever
Hey Chicago!
I need your help. Perhaps you know that for the past 2 years I have sat on the Board of Directors for the Woman Made Gallery.
Well, I also chair the Marketing Committee and in honor of our 20th Anniversary in 2012 (YUP 20 Years and over 7,000 artists shown!) we have created an innovative and badass marketing campaign to honor our artists and community members while getting the word...
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Testing Chicago's Responsiveness
On June 20th I purchased my city sticker, as a good Chicagoan does. I got my order number, my receipt and then went on about my business waiting for it to arrive in the mail.
My life, like most peoples, is hectic. I run a business, sit on two boards for local nonprofits, blog about my love for Chicago, run TEDxWindyCity, blah blah blah so awaiting my city sticker was not exactly at the top of my...
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I'm Feeling Very Festive
I am going to keep throwing you badass holiday events as they come up because I want you to shop local and have fun this holiday season. So…here’s three you can hit this weekend.
Friday Night
High Design Holiday at the ReBuilding Exchange
Celebrate the holidays, do a little shopping and support a good cause at “High Design Holiday,” the first event sponsored jointly by...
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Zealous Good...a new kind of matchmaking...
Zealous Good is definitely one of the coolest new online giving platforms!
Here’s how it works.
Example: You just upgraded your tech for the holidays and now you have a DVD player and old TV that you don’t need. What to do What to do. Well now you can simply visit the Zealous Good Website, click on “Donate Your Goods” and tell them what you have. They will find a...
