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Afternight
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Band database:
Recording studio:
http://www.afternightsoundstage.com
LAN games:
http://www.chicagolanparty.com
Bacardi's Party By Night
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Covers some of the big clubs.
Bars Online
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Co-op of dozens of local bars, has nice basic pages and event listings.
Bedno.com
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"Best Chicago Entertainment Newsletter on the Web".
Concise and comprehensive with a leaning to the offbeat. Has unique content and unparalleled technical features. Includes searchable photos, video, audio, calendars, maps, forums, mobile access and VASTLY more.
Blend Chicago
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Fairly comprehensive, house oriented club guide with sexy photos.
Blog Chicago
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Yet another Chicago blog portal.
Bomond
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Quality Russian Language Chicago guide.
Brilliantly Mad
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Chicago house/underground music events e-zine.
Center Stage Chicago
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A pleasant and comprehensive guide to places and events, with a unique "Chicago by EL" feature.
CHI Blue (John December)
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Comprehensive local links list.
Chicago2Nite
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"C2N - The Urban Pulse of Chicago" African-American oriented?
Chicago Adventures
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City tour planner.
Chicago After Hours
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Boastful but basic promoter sponsored club site.
Chicago Amateur Athlete
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Comprehensive list of local running/biking/etc events.
Chicago Artists Coalition
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Lists local art fairs and gallery openings.
Chicago Bean
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Event aggregator of sorts.
Chicago's Best
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Commercial guide to hotels, restaurants, etc.
ChicagoBlader
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A Bedno.com sister site, "THE nexus for area inline skating enthusiasts"
Sharing all the same powerful features.
ChicagoBloggers
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Local weblog directory, arranged map-wise by nearest train station.
Chicago Chamber of Commerce
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CoC related issues and events only.
Chicago Clubs
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Vapor-site, maybe dead.
Chicago Collections
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Fairly sharp, categorized Chicago links collection.
Chicago.com
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Commercial site under development. Various free posting areas.
Chicago Dance and Music Alliance
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Listings from over 100 participating artists and groups.
Chicago Events
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Home to Chicago Special Events Management, which runs many well-known local festivals.
Chicago Fest Guy
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A guy who visits and photographs many major city festival.
Chicago Free
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"Your source for free things to do in Chicago and more."
Chicago Fun
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Leading party planning company and resource for finding entertainers.
Chicago Fusion
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Extremely prurient promoter sponsored clubbing site with sexy photos.
Chicago Gigs
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Fairly excellent local bands calendar.
Chicago Groove
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House loving DJs, who post lots of Zentra photos.
Chicago Guide
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Simple personal site leaning to Jazz and Blues. An early Chicago site, possibly now stalled following the passing of creator John Miles.
Chicagoist
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Surprisingly well edited new site, cloned from a NYC version.
Chicago Kids
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Simple and well stocked family-friendly local guide site.
Chicagoland TV
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24hr local news
Chicago Links
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Clean, categorized Chicago links collection, becoming outdated.
Chicago Live
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Demo site. No useful content.
Chicago Magazine
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Minimal web presence of popular upscale magazine.
Chicago Medley
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Mostly local music.
Chicago Music Guide
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Dennis and Jina Kelly photograph local bands. Also promos, reviews, etc.
Chicago Music Scene
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Mostly air when last checked.
Chicago Night Life Guide
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Yet another club flier aggregator posing as all that plus chips.
Chicago Nightlife
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Promoter sponsored site, gradually getting better. Good club photos.
Chicago Nights
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Highly commercial, possibly abandoned.
Chicago North guide
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An About.com guide.
Chicago Online
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Useless e-commerce aggregation.
Chicago Parent
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A Disney product.
Chicago Reader
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Excellent performance listings.
Chicago Restaurant Guide
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Simple and comprehensive categorized dining reference, with interactive map and video.
Chicago Scene
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"Premier" on-line guide, caters to upscale beautiful people. Fairly crass and commercial. Huge photo archives.
Chicago Stoner Rock
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Representing stoner rock, drug metal, space jams, hardcore, crust, doom and select bands. Good dynamic content.
Chicago Suicide Club
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Large-scale local emo/goth social site.
ChicagoTips.com
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Clean and friendly blog of reviews. "Focuses on the offbeat: cultural opportunities, non-profit venues, shops, restaurants, hints for coping, ..."
Chicago Traveler
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Discount hotel bookings and lite visitor's guide. Dead?
Chicago Tribune
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Web presence of top newspaper.
Chicago Vegetarian Society
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Primary organizers of local non-meat dining events. Seems orphaned.
Chicago Web
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Another comprehensive links collection.
Chicago Weekend Fun
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Blog-style site about Chicago entertainment and vacationing.
ChiTownScene
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Local Music listings and band promotion. Dead?
ChiWeb
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Elder site, recently reborn? Trying to host video spots. Some useful city guide content.
Choose Chicago
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City Convention and Tourism Bureau home. Also has a good city events calendar, and travel planning tools.
Church of Satin
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Yet another Chicago goth/industrial community site.
CitiSoft
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Psuedonym for:
http://www.rocket99.com a somewhat bland multi-city guide.
City Alerts
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Public, mostly African-American.
City Hits
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Appears dead.
City of Chicago (Chicago Mosaic)
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Official city home page. Leads to all city services as well as extensive tourism and events pages.
City Search
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Extremely comprehensive, a Microsoft product.
City Vibz
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National system using franchised data.
Culture Finder
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Excellent theatre listings. Recently in financial trouble.
Cyber Chicago
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Mainly for computer professionals.
Dark Media TV
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Active and fairly good quality forum driven Chicago goth community site.
David Siska's Chicago Guide
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Static and aging but quite accurate DJ, club and genre reviews.
Demons and Darlings (formerly Gothic Council of Chicago)
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"Dedicated to uniting" genres of Chicago dark underground culture.
Digital City
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A powerful and comprehensive publicly maintained system. Formerly AOL related.
Drunken Chicago
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Well maintained guide to local drinking cheap.
Dynamic Chicago
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Johnny Vegas club promotion tool.
Early Music Chicago
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Web Portal for the Chicago "Early Music" scene, that of Bach and before. Baroque, Renaissance, Middle Ages.
Edgewater
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Edgewater Chamber of commerce. Also has good neighborhood events guide.
Emanon Intertainment
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A promising new guide site with an African-American focus.
E*Prairie
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"Midwest Technology Business News"
A quality site with newsletters, events, jobs, people and business listings, and mobile access.
Flash Mob
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Several hundred fun-lovers who gather for pranks.
Free Chicago Events
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Informal little site listing free social and technical events in Chicago.
Gapers Block
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A general interest and literary Chicago site run by bloggers.
Going.com
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Powerful social networking style site with large-scale photo and RSVP system.
Gothic Chicago
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An elder site, THE nexus for darker souls.
Go Vege
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Best site for Chicago vegetarians. A non-profit corp. Calendar, news, dining meet-ups, more.
Great Doings
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Mailing list of good events. Excels at conventional social events, bar crawls and charity.
Groove On
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Home of the long-time Chicago entertainment reviewer Audarshia Townsend.
Hip Chicago
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Simple bar band site with strangely good extended schedule.
Illinois Entertainer
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Excellent Midwestern Rock and roll coverage.
Inside Chicago
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Minimal content, but an impressively active bulletin board.
Inside Online
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A Lerner publication?
Jam Productions
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Chicago's largest concert promoter, site lists all their many upcoming shows.
Launch Chicago
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Aspires to be THE comprehensive Chicago links directory.
Libations
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Commercial and minimal. Probably the web presence of a beverage distribution consortium.
Local Chicago .Info
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"Not a .com, it's better" Tourist friendly, efficient and simple.
Local Tourist, The
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"THE Online Guide to Downtown Chicago" - One woman's reviews and blogs and local music-zine.
Lumpen
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Very interesting subversive local b/w free zine.
M50
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IDM/house club event listing by local DJ.
MadPoison
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Alcohol loving nightlife guide, so egotistical as to say they are Chicago's most popular site IN their launch announcement mailing.
MeetChicago
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Minimal new site that plans to schedule occasional nice social gatherings.
MeetInChicago
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Another Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau sponsored site.
Meetup
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Fairly powerful ad-hoc social event coordination system.
MetroMix
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Very comprehensive but mainstream, a Tribune company product.
Midwest Online
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Nice wider region tourism guide.
National sights with significant Chicago events listing sections:
OFFSITE
http://chicago.zvents.com
http://myspace.com
http://chicago.tribe.net
http://chicago.craigslist.org/cal
http://ticketmaster.com
http://www.yelp.com/chicago
New City
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A fairly good 'alternative' weekly, leans to punk.
Night Guide
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An international system with brief static local content.
NorthSide News
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Fairly good Lerner web presence.
O.S. Magazine
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Local clubbing site with unclear focus.
Picturing Chicago
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An extraordinary personal effort lovingly capturing the real city in black and white!
Plan-It-Purple
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Northwestern University Chicago area guide.
Pub Club
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Fairly good bars/pubs supported guide.
Sean Parnell's Chicago Links
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Uniquely interesting site compiled by some true residents and lovers of this city. Includes links and stories, and "The Chicago Bar Project" which reviews dozens of local drinkeries.
Shake Chicago
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Promotion network and more.
Site of Big Shoulders
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Local site of art, fiction, poetry and more.
Smart Clubber
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Sharp promoter sponsored site, excels at warm and interesting clubbing photos.
Social Monster
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Commercial social events group. May be down.
Socially Active Community Conscious Singles Chicago
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Dating for non-profit volunteers.
South Side Links
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Little content.
Suburban Bars
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Excellent coverage of Chicago suburban bars.
Suburban Scene
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"All things happening outside the city of Chicago" Dead?
Super Sphere
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Amazing collection of hundreds of videos of Chicago performances. Maybe abandoned.
The Chain Link
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A Chicago Bicycling Online Community.
The Tube (IIT)
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I.I.T.'s "Student Portal" Chicago guide.
Third Coast Marketing
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Promotions company with excellent Gay&Lesbian events listing.
Timeout Chicago
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Minimal site maintained from out of state.
Underground Chicago
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Representing Chicago Hip-Hop and related.
U R Chicago
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Fairly good 20-somethings magazine and clubbing website.
Urban Style
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Consortium of trendy shops.
Vibes Media
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Local company working on text messaging communities.
Web Guide Chicago
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Chicago category in a managed search engine.
Whats Up Chicago
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Yet another local promotion site, good photo archives.
Where Chicago
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EXCELLENT glossy monthly Chicago guide magazine.
World Web Chicago Travel Guide
OFFSITE
Vacation planning oriented sites, revolves around travel, lodging and activity planning.
X-Chicago
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"Chicago's Art-Tech Resource"
Your Events Hotline
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Nice and personal quick listing, favors 'social' events.
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