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By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 28, 2011 11:00PM
- Groupon officially launches in China. [Crain's]
- Diane Izzo, one of the best singwriters this city has ever produced, passed away. [Tribune]
- Auditions for Simon Cowell's The X Factor come to the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates April 27. [Sun-Times]
- Gov. Quinn named Doug Scott as chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission and Manuel “Manny” Flores as director of the Division of Banking of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. [IGNN]
- Chicago's African Americans earn 45 cents for every dollar white Chicagoans earn. [Chicago Muckrakers/Chicago Now]
- Here's a nice list of the statuses of some of Chicago's classic movie palaces. [Time Out Chicago]
- Doctors band together to call for having teenagers banned from tanning salons. [ABC7]
