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If you're like us, sometimes you want to grab a bite to eat and may not know exactly what's nearby, especially in an unknown part of the city. Mobile phone applications are a great way to help you not only find out what's nearby but also direct you right to its front door.

  

Chipotle Mexican Grill launched an iPhone application today that allows users to locate a location and place online orders. We've been putting it through its paces on our iPhone and like what we're getting out of it so far.

Admit it, it can be pretty hard to wrap your head around all the bands playing Lollapalooza, and the daily schedule can be labyrinthine to navigate. Lollapalooza rolled out a free iPhone app that makes mapping out your three days at the festival easier than ever.

Ever been flummoxed by being unable to use those iPhone apps for the CTA, Chicago 2016, Wilco, or even read us in the city's subways? Worry no more. The number of carriers boosting their cell phone signal to the subway tunnels of Chicago is about to grow again, this time adding iPhone carrier AT&T. U.S. Cellular, Verizon, and Cricket are the other three carriers to offer their signal underground. The CTA board is expecting to approve the contract today, which would be $3.1 million over 10 years. [Sun-Times]

Just in case our exhaustive review of the new Wilco album left you wanting even more from Jeff and the gang, you're in luck. The Wilco web factory has just released an iPhone app that lets you keep track of the guys as they globe trot through 2009 in support of next month's Wilco. The app will allow IPhone and iPod Touch users to access tour dates, ticket pre-sales, maps to venues, rideshares and the complete Wilco lexicon, including new tour doc Ashes of American Flags. Users will also be able to make setlist requests and get photo downloads straight from the road. Best of all? It's free. Pick it up at your local iTunes Store.

After someone's iPhone was snatched away from their ear, police on horseback chased and captured the subject, then arrested him and charged him with felony robbery.

Because the CTA Bus Tracker website is not the easiest to use on a mobile device, such as an iPhone, when you're on the go, the folks over at Ars Technica have compiled a good breakdown of the two iPhone apps that use data from the CTA's website to help you find that bus stop or track a bus' arrival time. The apps, Buster and CTA Tracker, are both priced at 99 cents at the iTunes App Store. Neither was developed by the CTA.

Broadway in Chicago (BIC), the production group responsible for bringing national tours ‘round our way, has launched an iPhone application.

• The Sun-Times looks at Amber Cremeens, the McHenry native killed last week by her ex-boyfriend Tyler James Martin, who shot himself after a stand-off with police in Logan Square on Friday.
• State Attorney General Lisa Madigan is prepping a lawsuit against Caterpillar, Inc. over the huge oil sludge spill from earlier this month.
• The Arlington Heights-based company responsible for Golden Tee is gambling on a new slot machine.

In case you found yourself shaking your iPhone in anger this morning as you failed to find a signal, there's apparently an explanation, four of the most dreaded words in tech: the network was down. Everything was restored shortly before 11 a.m. Chicago time. It's another blow for the company who, even as a major sponsor, saw a problem with connectivity at the recent Lollapalooza in Grant Park.

Motorola will have its answer for the iPhone out in the next few months, according to Crain's.

Does anyone have an iPhone that is working?

Yeah, we can't download the 2.0 firmware either. Neither can folks actually buying the iPhone today, and the long lines at Apple stores across the nation are testament to the fact that this time Apple screwed up. But some folks are taking advantage of the situation ... Chicago's own Rhymefest is handing out copies of his new mixtape to fellow queuers outside the Apple Store in L.A.!

Chicagoist remembers the day when we had to wait for the next morning's newspaper to see whether our team won or not, and we'd pore over the previous night's box scores while eating breakfast before heading off to school or day camp.

This is why it pays to carry a camera with you. Or at least an iPhone. While out for lunch this afternoon, Benjy noticed that some of the neighbors around Smoque aren't happy that their hard-earned parking spaces are being usurped by employees or customers of the popular barbecue joint.

For some people, the ultimate gift is something techy, like a Wii, an iPhone, or a GPS device. For us, it's a growler of beer, which we received over the holidays. The beer inside, "312." was nothing special. the growler, however, was refillable.

The thousands of Chicagoans who have received citations for refusing to wear an ugly head set while driving may feel a bit at ease today. The Law Offices of Blake Horwitz is filing a class action lawsuit against the city, Mayor Daley, and several police officers for illegally ticketing thousands of drivers in violation of the cell phone ban since its inception over two years ago.

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Sometimes we long for the old days when there were no cell phones. Text messaging was only for the über-rich Skytel set, and there was no reminder to silence your phones at the beginning of every concert, movie, poetry reading, dance recital, etc. It was much quieter then. And much, much cheaper. But in 2007 we are all carrying around computers in our pockets. Just over thirty years ago, in order to get a fraction...

Now that Spidey 3 and Transformers have opened and iPhone mania is starting to subside, it’s time to find a new place to direct all that geek-out energy. Enter Chicago Tap Theatre’s latest storybook show, The Hourglass in the Stop-Time Chronicles, a CTT collaboration with comic-book artist Andrew Pepoy. Fans of the genre don’t need to be reminded that local boy and Loyola grad Pepoy has inked Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and The Simpsons comix, among...

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they...

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"The iPhone -- it's goddamn cooler than a missile defense shield!" by TheeErin

With questions about its choice of AT&T as a carrier, along with usual 1st generation jitters, who the heck wants to stand in line for the new iPhone? Not us! (Well, maybe some of us.) However we are totally down with getting one as long as it's free, and not free in that "annoying banner ad that's been on MySpace to get a "free" "iPhone" since its existence was announced earlier this year" kind of way.

Earlier this week, accompanied by armed guards, and carefully escorted onto American soil, the first shipment of iPhones began to arrive. The creator of the ubiqitous iPod, has the PR buzz (or Reality Distortion Field) in full effect, and we can't remember so many people ever caring so much about a cell phone. No one really got excited about the new Blackberry (even if they are promoted by John Mayer), and when an updated TREO...

We were headed south on Western Avenue Friday night, on the way to view our fellow Chicagoista's photography opening, when we heard a familiar voice playing a song off the request lines. It was Johnny Mars, doing his first shift back at XRT since he was "squeezed out" back in 2001 (Feder).