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...miles south-west of Chicago....
...So far it doesn’t seem like that,” says PS Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago....
...On West 57th Street, a similar distance south of Manhattan’s Central Park, a one-bedroom apartment is currently on the market at One57, for $5.05m....
...“This man is openly racist, openly sexist, openly bigoted — and he’s the next president of the United States?” he said. “It’s ridiculous....
...Nymex’s owner, CME Group of Chicago, says it will close down its New York commodities trading floor, the last of its kind in a city once full of them, after all but 0.3 per cent of its energy and metals...
...the gangs that control most of the streets....
...assemblage, and invoking the First Amendment to the United States Constitution....
..., even bigger fight in the streets of Hong Kong....
...The streets of Chicago’s North Side are among America’s safest. At 415 homicides last year, Chicago’s fatalities were less than half their peak....
...Lingering worries about the west’s attempts to hobble Iran’s nuclear programme provided further underpinning to the price of crude....
...The National Weather Service predicted a 10 per cent chance of tornadoes in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois....
...Parts of Chicago, largely on the south and west, remain poor and it is these neighbourhoods, which have a large black and minority population, that see the most violence....
...Topshop, still a darling of the UK fashion scene, has three other US stores – New York, Chicago and Las Vegas – but this is Sir Philip’s first in Los Angeles, a fashion hub and the heart of the entertainment...
...First-year students are off participating in week-in-cities trips all around the US, whether Chicago for consulting or marketing, New York for “Week on Wall Street”, healthcare or luxury brand and retail...
...The Obama campaign had arranged for me to meet the 56-year-old former director of education at a local synagogue in a swing through the must-win mountain west state....
..., and consulted Vita Sackville-West about it....
...I was heading downtown to Chicago’s West Loop, a zone of old warehouses in the former meatpacking district being reclaimed for high-end restaurants and art galleries....
...It helps if there is a large population centre nearby – East Chicago virtually merges with Gary at the Illinois state border line....
...back to the United States of America”....
...in Chicago....
...Occupy Wall Street is an experiment in living differently on the margins of this civilisation, not a blueprint for a new one....
...Mr Emanuel was raised in Chicago in a family of high achievers: his brother, Rahm, was President Barack Obama’s first chief of staff and is now mayor of Chicago; his other brother, Ezekiel, is an oncologist...
...The price difference between West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude reached a record high of more than $28 a barrel earlier this month....
...Facing Wall Street, the media and the wider world for the first time, says Ms Wilderotter, will be “a little bit of trial by fire”. The writer is the FT’s west coast editor...
...On the Chicago streets the human ape is alive and well. Either that or mad, bad, irredeemable and possibly dead....
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