In Chicago, urban kayaking has boomed thanks to the city's calm, easily navigable river surrounded by densely packed, scenic skyscrapers.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
Tim Knowles, of the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute, worries about too little, leaving mediocre schools with not enough incentive to improve.
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Like Quinn, Madigan is a Chicago Democrat who supports the proposed assault weapons ban, but any stand against concealed carry could alienate voters outside Chicago and other urban centers.
As for Exelon, it is building an urban solar facility in Chicago.
Vote rigging by entrenched political machines in cities like Chicago or Philadelphia is more than urban legend.
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This has happened both in great urban centers such as Chicago and in the long-distressed inner cities of St.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed.
Prior to taking office Obama tooled around Chicago behind the wheel of an urban-cool Chrysler 300C sedan, which he proceeded to trade in upon throwing his hat into the proverbial ring for a for a more fuel-efficient and politically expeditious Ford Escape Hybrid SUV.
The Chicago truck vouchers may help congestion and urban planning needs over a decade.
Most young adults (ages 18-34) who live alone gravitate toward urban centers like Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, and they are the fastest-growing group, with five million people today as compared with 500, 000 in 1950.
More than one-third are sprinkled across the southeast, with the vast majority living in Florida and in large urban cities like New York, Chicago and Boston.
But other Democratic front runners accused Bloomberg of buying a race and interfering in the heavily urban district that also includes some Chicago suburbs and rural areas.
Why not allow, say, a BMW dealer to open a vehicular boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills or Fiat to showcase its models from a small storefront in the urban-hip Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago?
Vallas has made a name for himself running troubled urban school systems in both Philadelphia and Chicago.
Most recently, Asim served as Director of the Urban Health Initiative at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he directed a key institutional initiative to improve health outcomes through strategic partnerships and lead several Medical Center departments and community partners to implement community-based models of practice.
But Antony Wood, head of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an industry association based in Chicago, says technological limitations no longer rule out such towers.
Chicago came in second, due largely to its dense urban population, crippling traffic and the fact that motorists in the Windy City are subjected to fuel costs that are 30 percent higher than the U.S. average.
Chicago schools suffer, in heavy doses, all the ills of urban school districts: poverty, gang activity and teen pregnancies.
Wal-Mart opened a new store in Chicago this week, a small format called Express developed to fit urban areas and gain a foothold in new markets.
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The charter-school concept has also attracted new institutions into early education, says Tim Knowles, director of the Urban Education Institute, which is part of the University of Chicago.
"There is certainly a mix in Colorado of folks who value freedom to own and transport guns, largely in the more rural areas, and then folks in the Denver-Boulder urban corridor whose views would be closer to a New York or Chicago, " Mr. Moss said.
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The Gotham of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is actually Chicago, and for the residents of the Windy City, having their city chosen to depict urban dystopia is just another thing to be proud of.
Clark noted that people who embrace the car sharing concepts tend to have above-average incomes and live in more urban areas, so he expects RelayRides to gain members in cities such Portland, Chicago, Denver and Washington, D.
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As the City has enjoyed a renaissance of sorts, as many other urban areas in the United States like Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco and Chicago have done, real estate values have vacillated with peaks in hipster neighborhoods and dips in less favorable areas.
Lanier said she bikes around Chicago often, but the city's best outdoor offering is Lake Michigan, and that still feels pretty urban, she said.
Once one of the nation's most ineffectual, neglected and corrupt public education systems, Chicago's -- with 428, 000students in 559schools -- is now a model of sorts for urban public education.
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