New to Chicago? Here is the information you need.
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Chicago Reader is for apartments. New listings are posted on Wednesday http://www.chicagoreader.com/
The Chicago Tribune for home listings & jobs http://www.chicagotribune.com/
Chicago Magazine for dining http://www.chicagomag.com/
Open Table for dining reservations http://www.opentable.com
Metromix for nightlife http://www.metromix.com
Understanding the Neighborhoods http://www.car-realtor.com/abi001/showdetl.cfm?&DID=322&Product_ID=39&CATID=1
City Government for staying out of trouble http://www.ci.chi.il.us/
On-Site Computer Support http://www.pcplumberhome.com
Understanding the Traffic Report http://www.gapersblock.com/

Chicago Crash Course Reading List
The American Pharaoh by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor '79.

One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko
by Mike Royko

Chicago: In and Around the Loop - Walking Tours of Architecture and History
by Gerard R. Wolfe

Great Chicago Stories: Portraits and Stories
by Tom Maday and Sam Landers

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz

Chicago Days : 150 Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City
by Stevenson Swanson

Chicago's Loop: A walking tour (VHS)

Mount Holyoke College
Alumnae Association http://www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/
Development Office http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/develop/campaign/
Campus Bookstore http://shop.efollett.com/
College Street Journal http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/
Vista http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/vista/
Mount Holyoke News http://www.mtholyoke.edu/org/mhnews/

Seven Sisters Chicago Clubs
Barnard College
Bryn Mawr College
Mount Holyoke College http://www.mhcchicago.org
Radcliffe College ?
Smith College http://smithclubchicago.org/index.htm
Vassar College http://www.aavc.vassar.edu/clubs/illinois/index.html
Wellesley College http://www.wellesley.edu/Alum/WAW/Clubs/Chicago/homepage.html

Ivy League Chicago Clubs (traditional)
Brown http://www.brownclub.org/baac.html
Columbia ?
Cornell http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/orgs/clubs/Chicago/
Dartmouth University http://dartmouthchicago.org/
Harvard University http://clubs.harvard.edu/hbs/chicago/
Princeton University http://alumni.princeton.edu/~paa141/
University of Pennsylvania http://www.pennclubchicago.com/
Yale University http://www2.aya.yale.edu/clubs/il01/

Ivy League Chicago Clubs (newcomers)
MIT http://www.mitchicago.org/
Stanford University http://e.stanfordalumni.org/Clubs/chicago/

A good Chicago Joke:
A Chicagoan dies and is sent to Hell. He had been a horrible man his entire life. The devil puts him to work breaking up rocks with a sledgehammer. To make it worse he cranks up the temperature and the humidity. After a couple of days, the devil checks in on his victim to see if he is
suffering adequately. The devil is aghast as the Chicagoan is happily swinging his hammer and whistling a happy tune. The devil walks up
to him and says, "I don't understand this. I've turned the heat way up, it's humid, you're crushing rocks; why are you so happy?"
The Chicagoan with a big smile, looks at the devil and replies, "This is great! It reminds me of August in Chicago. Hot, humid, a good place to
work. It reminds me of home. This is fantastic!"

The devil, extremely perplexed, walks away to ponder the Chicagoan's remarks. Then he decides to drop the temperature, send down a driving rain and torrential wind. Soon, hell is a wet, muddy mess. Walking in mud up to his knees with dust blowing into his eyes, the Chicagoan is happily slogging through the mud pushing a wheelbarrow full of crushed rocks. Again, the devil asks how he can be happy in such conditions. The Chicagoan replies, "This is great! Just like April in Chicago. It reminds me of working out in the yard with spring planting!"

The devil is now completely baffled and determined to make the Chicagoan suffer. He makes the temperature plummet. Suddenly Hell is blanketed
in snow and ice. Confident that this will surely make the Chicagoan unhappy, the devil checks in on the Chicagoan. He is again aghast at what he sees. The Chicagoan is dancing, singing, and twirling his sledgehammer as he cavorts in glee. "How can you be so happy? Don't you know its 40 below zero!?" screams the devil. Jumping up and down the Chicagoan throws a snowball at the devil and yells, "Hell's frozen over!! This means the Cubs won the world series!!