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AFTERNOON SPORTS CLUB Greatest Super Bowl ever? Here's our Top 10 After about a 30-year drought of excitement in the Super Bowl, the past decade has produced five of the Top 10 Super Bowls of all-time. Here's the Afternoon Sports Club's Top 10 list, which is sure to stir some debate. We want to hear what you think.

Entertainment

Foodie fun: Tours offer up town's tastiest treats Both tourists and those sticking around for a staycation are finding there is much to explore in Chicago's culinary world. "We sometimes offer conventions culinary tours or extra help in planning things, and these requests are growing every year," says the city's Judith Dunbar Hines. You needn't look any further than the volume of food tours being offered.
Photos: Touring Eli's Cheesecake Dave Hoekstra: Chicago's sweet history Digging In: Blog for foodies

Business

High labor rates costing McCormick Place shows A confidential analysis of labor costs in the convention business shows McCormick Place at an extreme disadvantage compared with its primary competition in Las Vegas and Orlando. The study, prepared to show policymakers here why big shows are leaving McCormick Place or considering that step, said the straight-time labor cost for a Chicago convention averages 50 percent more than the rate in Las Vegas and 147 percent more than Orlando's rate.
PDF: Inside convention labor costs
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