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		<title>Ho Ho Ho your Horses for Friday Evening Bash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night the group gathered to toot their horns and celebrate the season. The setting was the grand ballroom at the J.W. Sheraton downtown and the hosts were the ever affable chieftains of @properties, Thad Wong and Michael Golden. The attendees were a veritable four figures of people intent on talking, laughing, eating and drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarifying Value as We Prepare to Make an Offer on a Chicago Condo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Value is a tricky thing to capture. In the Chicago and North Shore real estate market it&#8217;s akin to taking a shoe box and filling it with like-sized properties either in the same building (in the case of mid and high-rises) or approximately a half mile for condos and zip codes for many single family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lassoing the Moon and Brokers Who &#8220;Aspirationally&#8221; Price Chicago Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have passed the threshold of December 1st and upon us soon are the holy trilogy of holy events: Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzai. And as thoughts ceaselessly shift in my mind like so many waves along Lake Michigan the stutteringly smooth tones of George Bailey ring in my ears as he asks Mary on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Things Don&#8217;t Go According to Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas McCarey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t supposed to happen that way. The map of life has more than a few detours that could so aptly be described. Whether it&#8217;s us looking at ourselves, at others or others at us, the prism through which we view distorts, distends and distinguishes. And sometimes it wasn&#8217;t supposed to happen that way. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cardinals&#8217; Win and a Shift of How I View Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disappointment. Things don&#8217;t go the way you want them to. I&#8217;m not talking cataclysm, catastrophe or that which is colossal. I&#8217;m talking the more mundane. Like when you don&#8217;t get an invitation, or the pair of pants you wanted to wear are incontrovertibly in the laundry, the North Shore home you liked goes under contract [...]]]></description>
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