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Essential Chicago Blogs

by Jennifer Roche
for About.com

Eight Chicago blogs that should be blinking on your radar screen, if they're not already.

Architecture Plus Chicago

Required reading for everyone who appreciates Chicago's architecture and wants to learn more about it or who wants keep their finger on the pulse of our built landscape. Written with passion and well-informed insight by Chicago Reader critic Lynn Becker.

The Capitol Fax Blog

Rich Miller's essential blog for the inside scoop on Illinois government and politics.

Checkerboard Chat

We love dependability in cops and bloggers. No surprise, then, that the official blog site of the Chicago Police Department makes the list.

Chicago Bloggers Map

One of my top favorite city sites. It's organized along Chicago's train lines, so you can ride and read the rails.

Chicagoist

The grand dame of all things cityish.

Eric Zorn's Change of Subject

The affable, balanced, and persistently relevant columnist for the Chicago Tribune is among the city's most prolific bloggers. He's also arguably done more to promote blogging as a medium than anyone else in the city.

Gapers Block

Part blog, part web site. The online Chicago web journal reveals the textures of city life while remaining light and lively.

Yo Chicago

This blog site covers Chicago's new homes, condos, and real estate gossip with plenty of facts and figures thrown in. Pleasingly scrappy and visual.

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