Mary Wisniewski, in the Vancouver Sun, has a Chicago tour guide for any Vancouverite, or Canadian of another sort, who wants to take a nice vacation there during trial time. Her guide includes: what hotels you should stay at; recommended restaurants; the courthouse itself as a tourist attraction (this same building hosted the Chicago 7 trial, in which Canadian singer Judy Collins sung a tune on the witness stand - literally); where the better shopping is; and, a recommended spa.
Ms. Wisniewski even recommended a Chicago Architecture Foundation tour, although she confines the temptation to in-joke to calling it a "docent." As far as I could tell, she didn't push it to the point where she compared Chicago to Paris. The Reliance building, as innovative as it was, isn't exactly the Eiffel Tower. (You'll find the source of the in-joke, as well as other Conrad Black trivia, here.)
[Yes, I had to look the word "docent" up. Hint, if you need one: it's etymologically derived from the German term privatdozent, meaning "a university-unpaid professor-in-waiting or lecturer." This one, I knew.]
Related factoid: The media organization she works for, CanWest, was the company that Hollinger sold the National Post to. The non-compete payments from CanWest, which were part of the entire deal between that company and Hollinger Int'l, form the heart of Count 8 and, indirectly, Count 9 of the indictment. All four defendants are charged in those two counts.
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