The Economist's monthly Chicago City Briefing was published yesterday.

Highlights include the auction for the Chicago Tribune company, Obama and Daley's mutual endorsement, the Chicago Architecture's annual naming of the "Chicago 7", and the Bears defeat of the New Orlean's Saints.

To read the full city briefing go to:

http://www.economist.com/cities/brie...fm?city_id=CHI

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This was recently posted on YouTube's video site. Is is the Superbowl XLI's answer to the Superbowl Shuffle?

Griffin was reportely between rehearsals and in costume as a Russian butler for "Die Fledermaus."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sct9igr7wMA

Here's another rendition of Bear Down, Chicago Bears by Daniel Spencer, 7 --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WPqkyHZd6Q

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The Chicago Olympic bid has drawn interest from several Chicago developers who might help to make the large-scale development happen.*

The Chicago Sun-Times writes - "Because the housing would be needed for the athletes, developers would have to build it regardless of advance sales of the homes. Most large-scale projects, such as the successful Lakeshore East, can advance a building at a time, selling out one before starting work on the next."

More information at --*...

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The New Eastside Association of Residents will be hosting a meeting to review neighborhood events in the past year. The meeting will be helpd Wednesday night at 7 PM in the 400 East Randolph Hospitality Room.

The*three candidates for*42nd Ward Alderman will also be present and will address questions on the following topics: Monroe Street Garage Renovation, Chicago Children's Museum Relocation, Daley Bi-Centennial Fieldhouse Renovation Plans, and the Pedway Extension.

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On December 5th*an anonymous contributor*added to the Lakeshore East entry on Wikipedia that the next building planned for Lakeshore East may be called the "Redhead" and could be a 87 story structure --

**The Redhead (2011, slated for 87 stories)

The IP address of the poster suggests that they are in Chicago --

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