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onionesque collection of real reviews of fake things such as restaurants movies musicals fireworks shows and music festivals . they never failed to fool a few people . andrew huff 12 31 gapers a tale of two cities in a nytimes op ed megan stielstra juxtaposes tonight s chi town rising event which was once free but now costs 99 150 to attend with the protests that are bringing people together for a very different reason . meanwhile rick perlstein writes in the new yorker about the sudden but well deserved fall of rahm emanuel . andrew huff 12 31 city life cultural easy mistake to make jeb presidential candidate jeb bush commented on the decision not to indict the police officers who killed 12 year old tamir rice yesterday saying i think that chicago s got a lot of work to do to rebuild trust . the level of violence is abhorrent . when reminded that the rice case was in cleveland he said i m sorry my bad . andrew huff 12 31 in the news chicago women who owned 2015 i m stealing the headline from fogb veronica arreola because it is perfect . there are so many best of lists at this time of year but if you want to know 15 thankfully there are far more women who did awesome stuff in chicago this year then go read about them . they re all awesome . cinnamon cooper 12 31 city life cultural get home free on new year s eve as usual the cta will be free tonight from 10pm to 4am courtesy of millercoors . andrew huff 12 31 transportation every tube down in tubeville comedian owen weber takes on trolls in the song how the troll stole youtube . more andrew huff 12 31 found on the web next year s cps schedule released parents may not be thrilled by the 2016 17 school schedule which thanks to a quirk of the calendar has winter break starting on christmas eve and spring break ending on easter . andrew huff 12 31 schools education empowered feminist empowered hale goetz writes about discovering that photos of her have gone viral on reddit . andrew huff 12 31 weblogs see page 2 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