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Chipotle's decision to swap the usual pork in its carnitas burrito for more expensive, naturally-raised pork resulted in a big price hike for the item in 2001, but it has more than paid off in increased sales.
"Ethically that was a very easy decision for us to make," said Jim Adams, Chipotle's marketing executive director, describing the 3-foot-by-7-foot indoor pens pigs are usually raised in. "But financially it was a difficult decision for us to make."
Originally published April 17, 2007, Times of Northwest Indiana
As many as 5,000 Hilton hotel rooms nationwide may be allergen free by next year, according to Environmental Technology Systems Inc., a Glen Ellyn-based firm that specializes in indoor air quality...
Originally published April 8, 2007, Daily Herald
Businesses in Schaumburg, Des Plaines and Chicago were awarded Minority Supplier of the Year awards Monday before a Chicago audience of more than 400.
The Chicago Minority Business Development Council honored Haves McNeal, president of Creative Printing Services Inc., Des Plaines; Karen Eng, president of Cybernet System Management Inc., Schaumburg; and Tyrone Brown, president of Information Systems Consultants Inc., Chicago...
Originally published April 4, 2007, Daily Herald .
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On January 29, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing all seven astronauts on board. The local community’s shock and the nation’s growing disenchantment with what was once an exciting discipline serve as the backdrop to Margaret Lazarus Dean’s debut novel...
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Originally published March 2006, VenusZine
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“Slowly it dawned on me that I could cobble together the jagged fragments of my life into one glittering pastiche,” Molly Crabapple writes in Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book, co-written by John Leavitt. She’s speaking of her evolution from art school–nude photography model to the creator of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School, a life drawing class where average Joes and Janes come together to sip drinks and sketch buxom models. But she could just as easily be describing the book itself: a glittering, fragmented ode to all things boozy, busty, and burlesque...
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Originally published March 2007, VenusZine
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It's not often one gets to brag about dumpster-diving and thrift store shopping skills in a cover letter, but when Nadia Oehlsen heard that the publishers of the Cheap Bastard guidebooks were looking for a Chicago author, she proudly boasted, "I'm the cheapest bastard I know."
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Originally published March 5, 2007, Centerstage Chicago
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When you’ve exhausted the list of people in your life that are worthy of a hand-knit scarf, Nikol Lohr hopes you’ll pass up the standard sock patterns and head instead to the bedroom to make something fun for yourself. In Naughty Needles: Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond, Lohr offers up more than 25 fresh patterns, from fun and flirty to downright dirty...
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Originally published February 17, 2007, VenusZine
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Fact may well be stranger than fiction, but it can also be funnier, sillier and tear-jerkier. So thought Molly Each and Ira Booker, co-editors of No Touching magazine and co-hosts of the mag's reading series. Centerstage sat down with Each to get her reflections on the past year, the line between fact and fiction and the books that make her go "Oh my gosh."
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Originally published February 15, 2007, Centerstage Chicago.
Ottavio Canestrelli's childhood was peculiar by almost any standards. With an eight-generation-long tradition of circus performance in his family, Canestrelli, along with his many siblings, was destined to grow up as part of the family act. He toured with his parents and siblings across North America and around the world, attending school in Florida only during slower winter months...
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Originally published February 6, 2007, Centerstage Chicago
Nothing says oo-la-la-love on a snowy day like sipping a steaming mug of hot chocolate. For some it's the ultimate marriage of decadent cocoa treat and wistful childhood memory. But just because you were stuck (merrily) slurping packet powder as an eight-year-old doesn't mean you can't update your tastes for a decidedly more decadent mug. Luckily, finding spruced up hot chocolate in Chicago is no more difficult than, oh, finding the cold in January...
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Originally published January 29, 2007, Centerstage Chicago
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