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...United States Professional Volleyball have, like the WUSA, gone under.) Plus, the WUSA is trying to come back when it's losing its Michael Jordan: Hamm is hanging up her cleats. "I made that promise to myself, but I also made it to my family," says Hamm, wife of Chicago Cubs star Nomar Garciaparra. Four other favorites who led the Olympic team in Athens, including captain Julie Foudy and shirt-shedding cover girl Chastain, are also likely to retire...
...what in the world is this league thinking? Surprisingly, most experts believe a new WUSA can kick. "They are not crazy," says Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp Ltd., a Chicago marketing firm. "They just have to align their expectations with reality." DiCicco has heeded that advice. In July he called a meeting of about 30 ex--WUSA officials, sports leaders and consultants to revamp the league's business model. Gone are the five-year financial projections relied upon in the old league, which was founded on Web-like hysteria after the 1999 World Cup victory. (John Hendricks, chairman of Discovery...
...Monty Python troupe. In a February 2004 online poll, it was even named (no joke) the No. 1 British film of all time. That cult reputation--along with a cast that includes David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria and Tim Curry--has already made Spamalot a hot ticket in Chicago, where it will begin a pre-Broadway run in late December. But the show's key to success may be its unlikely director, Mike Nichols. His understated, very American comic sensibility might seem an odd fit with the Pythons' quirky, lowbrow-meets-highbrow satire. Yet the comic alchemy could bring Broadway...
With hours to kill in Chicago, you could do worse than Ferris Bueller, actor Matthew Broderick's amiably conniving teen antihero from the 1986 comedy who played hooky and turned the town upside down. But almost two decades later, you could also do much better. Over the years the Windy City has continually reinvented itself, adding world-class tastes to its legacy of blues, comedy and 1920s-era speakeasies...
From there, the options widen. If culture is your thing, pop across the street from Millennium Park to the Art Institute of Chicago, where you can see some of the world's most famous paintings, including Grant Wood's American Gothic and Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. If it's shopping you crave, check out a classic downtown department store, Carson Pirie Scott or Marshall Field, where if nothing else, you can pick up a box of famous Frango mints...