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You Can't Eat There
This article focuses on a superstar chef that has just opened a restaurant at the Carter Harrison Water Intake Crib, two miles off Oak Street Beach on Lake Michigan. He will not give reservations to phone numbers with local area codes (not that you can find his number as it is unlisted) and dinner costs $1600. "I’m not opening a great Chicago restaurant,” he says. “I’m opening a world-class destination. And for better or worse, diners that make those distinctions live in New York, Los Angeles, London." Bottom line, this guy's a pompous jerk and he insulted Chicago. No way the food is worth the mortgage on a house.
Edit: After reading this week's letters section of The Chicago Reader it is clear that this article was an April Fool's hoax. I wasn't the only one to fall for it thankfully.

Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened by Aristocratization
A comedic take on gentrification and cities; this time the people being pushed out are upper class professionals. Here they are being pushed out by aristocrats who convert their French bakeries, faux dive bars and condos into opera houses and castles. Something to laugh at.