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Extra Extra: Read Billboard's Oral History of Kanye West's 'The College Dropout'

By Jon Graef in News on Feb 9, 2014 11:00PM

  • On the album's tenth anniversary, Billboard published an oral history of Kanye West's The College Dropout. Read it. [Billboard]
  • A former rail worker from northwest Indiana alleges in a federal lawsuit that he endured a racially hostile work environment at the railroad company where he worked, which culminated in an epithet-laced attack by a co-worker who cut off his dreadlocks with a knife. [Trib]
  • City to borrow $1.9 billion in first test since rating downgrade. [Sun-Times]
  • DNAinfo has a look inside the new Lagunitas brewery. [DNAinfo ]
  • The best dry-aged steaks in Chicago, according to Nick Kindelsperger. [Serious Eats]

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