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Regional

WHAT I WAS THINKING: J. B. Pritzker, founder of New World Ventures, a venture capital firm, and The Pritzker Group, a private equity firm

ELECTRIFIED: Mason Bates introduces the CSO to a new instrument: the laptop

The Sawmill Hollow Family Farm, Missouri Valley, Iowa, again hosts the North American Aronia Berry Festival.

EDITOR'S NOTE: On September 7th, Mayor Richard Daley announced in a brief news conference at City Hall that he will not seek re-election in 2011. The story below appears in our current issue.

A new exhibit at the U.S. National Arboretum aims to help gardeners add ornamental edibles, adding color to the garden and food to the table.

American Farmland Trust's contest names the top 20 in four categories of farmers' markets from coast to coast.

LUCKY CATCH: A first-time filmmaker scores the elusive actor to narrate a quirky Cubs doc, showing on September 11th at the Music Box Theatre

How is it that Wichita Falls is home to one of the largest one-hundred-mile bicycle races in the country? With its unprepossessing architecture and a windswept location on Texas's least romantic border, this city in north-central Texas probably doesn't to

My doctor's hands are cold. When she first enters the exam room, she tells me to take off "everything" I was wearing and put on a gown that sat folded on the tissue paper-covered bed that I chose to stand next to rather than sit on. Then she left me alone

REVERSAL OF FORTUNE: When the economy slowed, Jake boutique owners Jim Wetzel and Lance Lawson stopped paying their bills. The two are seeking redemption with a new downtown store, but are unpaid designers willing to forgive?

FROM GOAT TO HERO: Stephanie Izard, everywhere at once and nowhere at all for two years, finally makes good on her promise in the West Loop

National Alpaca Farm Days offers an opportunity for the public to visit a nearby farm or ranch and learn more about the fascinating alpaca.

POWER CHORD: The soul music legend and the Wilco frontman record a new album together

THE FRIENDLY BAR: A county effort to cap campaign donations by property tax attorneys turns out to be toothless

CURIOUS DEALS: The murky dealings at the Cook County Board of Review—some of them linked to the commissioner Joseph Berrios through friends and aides—have drawn the scrutiny of prosecutors.