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		<title>Race and Teen Drug Arrests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Chicago, African-American youth account for eight out of every 10 juvenile arrests for drug charges. But does that mean that they&#8217;re doing the most drugs? According to a small story of mine that was published this month&#8217;s issue of The Chicago Reporter, the answer is no. While researching the story, I spoke to Dan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=301&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle for Zapata Apartments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lpmcgill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninety-two years after Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata’s assassination in 1919, the Zapata name was being dragged into another struggle over land use. This time it was in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. My story on the legal battle between the NIMBY group Armitage Neighbors Together and the developers of the affordable housing development Zapata [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=288&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where have all the weird words gone?</title>
		<link>http://lpmcgill.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/where-have-all-the-weird-words-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lpmcgill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English is an old language that is constantly adapting. Fifty years ago, many of the words we use today were either not around or not used often. The phrase &#8220;hard drive&#8221; probably made someone think of a long road-trip. &#8220;Tweet&#8221; was something baby birds did. You&#8217;d be a bad guest if you posted something on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=279&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flashmobs vs. Flashmobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note on word usage. A search for &#8220;Chicago flash mob&#8221; gets 1,970,000 hits on Google. According to the first page of links, a flash mob is a roving band of youths who bum-rush innocent victims, beat and rob them, and disappear as quickly as they arrived. More recently, the term has been used to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=271&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use Social Media as a Musician</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This article was published in the DePaulia on February 22nd, 2010.) Brian Mazzaferri, lead singer of the Nintendo-inspired Chicago rock band I Fight Dragons, may be stuck in New York after bad weather canceled his flight, but even here he is in touch with his fans. However, he never has to meet them in person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=219&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Be a Journalist</title>
		<link>http://lpmcgill.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/how-to-be-a-journalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting to watch this video and see how much has changed, how many of these jobs no longer exist, and what still holds true after all these years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=215&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gapers Block&#8217;s Andrew Huff talks Site Redesign</title>
		<link>http://lpmcgill.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/gapers-blocks-andrew-huff-talks-site-redesign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago blog Gapers Block has evolved slowly since its founding in 2003. While they originally started with 12 writers, they are now at roughly 100. The columns have expanded and contracted. Only four of the original writers are left. The site has 90,000 unique visitors out of 250,000 total visitors per month. New efforts by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=170&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slate&#8217;s Political Map of the News</title>
		<link>http://lpmcgill.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/slates-political-map-of-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April 2010, Slate.com ran a piece about a University of Chicago study which analyzed the political leanings of news website readers. For the story, they created an interesting interactive &#8220;map&#8221; of news websites. The size of the square reflects the size of the readership, and the color reflects the ratio of conservative readers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=149&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are Music Fans Willing to Pay For?</title>
		<link>http://lpmcgill.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/what-are-music-fans-willing-to-pay-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lpmcgill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nan Warshaw isn&#8217;t happy about the state of the music industry. The co-founder of Bloodshot Records, a Chicago-based roots music label that celebrates their 16th anniversary this year, says that “sales are way down, and people justify more not paying for music.” The industry is feeling the effects of the one-two punch of internet piracy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=135&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Sarah Blackwood from The Creepshow</title>
		<link>http://lpmcgill.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/interview-with-sarah-blackwood-from-the-creepshow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lpmcgill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I did this interview a few months ago, with the lead singer of one of my favorite psychobilly bands, The Creepshow. This was during their last tour. The band just finished their latest album, due out in the fall.) ME: Since forming the band with its current line-up, how often have you toured? SARAH: We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lpmcgill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12518678&amp;post=101&amp;subd=lpmcgill&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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