Chicago Sun Times: The.WWWindy.city

"Chicago.com, a long-dormant but potentially highly lucrative Web site, is scheduled to go live today.

"Chicago entrepreneur Josh Metnick, who obtained the domain name two years ago from a Silicon Valley techie who owned it, bills Chicago.com as the 'Web site that works,' after the city that does likewise...

"To keep expenses down, Metnick is running the operation on a shoestring as a 'virtual company' and using free open-source Linux software to avoid paying licenses to Microsoft Inc. 'There's not a line of Microsoft code in the site,' he said..."

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