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City teachers overwhelmingly authorize a strike

Just under 90 percent of the members of the Chicago Teachers Union authorized their leaders to call a school strike, as soon as late this summer.

Today's Features

Slide show: Society: All that glitters

Students were front and center at Marwen's Paintbrush Ball, a silvery affair celebrating the nonprofit art academy's 25th anniversary.

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· Video: Chicago Business Today | Too many lawyers?

· Video: New Kroc Center to open on South Side

· Video: Chicago Business Today | Big flip at Barneys?

· Video: Business of Life | Luna Negra

· Video: Get a handle on your baggage

· Video: Entrepreneurs in Action: WyzAnt

· Video: Innovators | Soon-Jo Chung

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Celebrate summer and join the Arts & Business Council at Carmichael's on June 28, 2012 for food, drinks, entertainment and diverse company as you learn about opportunities for supporting Chicago's dynamic arts organizations.

Crain's Bloggers

They cover the city's biggest newsmakers: Greg Hinz writes on politics, Shia Kapos takes names, Ann Dwyer tracks entrepreneurs and Brigid Sweeney follows retail.

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Monday's Daily Brief: Commerce Sec. Hit-and-Run, Robin Roberts Bone Marrow Disease, Rafael Nadal Wins, Plus James Franco, Dylan Ratigan

Commerce Sec. Cited For Felony Over Hit-And-Run

Monday, June 11, 2012

Commerce Sec. Cited For Felony Over Hit-And-Run

	MEDIA Robin Roberts Announces She's Suffering From Bone Marrow Disease
	BUSINESS Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: Spain Bailout 'Not Going To Work'
	SPORTS Seventh Heaven: Rafael Nadal Wins 7th French Open
	POLITICS Scott Walker Splits With Romney On Key Issue
	CULTURE Tony's Biggest Winners

BLOG POSTS

	Dylan Ratigan: Beyond Talk While it may seem unconventional to leave a rapidly growing political cable show on the eve of a presidential election, to me, the timing couldn't be better.
	James Franco: Summer Reading, Part 3: Remembering the Lovely Details of The Virgin Suicides The extensive detailing that gives the novel its raison d'être makes me think of Vladimir Nabokov --- especially since Nabokov, in Lolita, was as eager as Eugenides is here to mix pop-culture references and incredibly apt metaphors.
	Leo W. Gerard: China Exports Trouble to U.S. For years, China deliberately diminished the value its currency. This artificially reduces the price of Chinese exports. Simultaneously, it artificially raises the price of U.S. exports to China. Dithering by the U.S. House of Representatives on this issue has reduced America to victim status.
	Bianca Bosker: The Rise Of The 'Less Is More' Selective Social Network Just like grumpy editors wielding red pens, a burgeoning category of sites and apps are battling the share-everything trend with offerings that actually limit what we can say about ourselves.
	Thomas de Zengotita: After Wisconsin: Race, the 2012 Race, and Beyond A lot of blue state liberals may not have noticed, or just shrugged off, the news that white births made up less than half of U.S. births as of July 2011. But you can be sure that news will not go unremarked among those determined to replace "welfare queen" with "public sector queen" in the national pantheon of invidious stereotypes. The "take back our country" theme is just getting under way in American politics. That's why voter registration vs. voter suppression is the most important practical political issue on the table -- in 2012, and beyond.