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“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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