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Each month, ChicagoNow holds a contest to select the best blog posts throughout ChicagoNow.

Out of more than 1,000 posts published during the month of March, here are the 20 judged to be the best.

Cheating Death: Wake up call for Tarzan; Jane is swinging on her own vine

Getting More From Les: Is Curiosity Worth Losing a Job Over? Lessons from the Jessie Smollett Affair.

Getting Real: It’s Not A Realtor Conspiracy Keeping Real Estate Commissions High

Go Do Good!: If Only We Could be Addicted to Love

I’ve Got The Hippy Shakes: Finding out that Mick Jagger is not immortal is shocking

JUST SAYIN: The Luxury Cruise from Hell/ Terror On the High Seas/Abandon Ship

Keeping An Eye Out: Mayor Rahm Emanuel who tried to cover-up a murder needs to shut up and go away

Kraft Brews Chicago: A Trek to the Twin Cities and Other Winter Brewery Nuggets

Margaret Serious: Ian D. Laing, 1925-2019

Mom, I Think I’m Poignant!: The Preckwinkle Package: experience, temperament, ethics and the big shoulders Chicago needs

Old Single Mom: I didn’t see any adults declining their Shamrock Shuffle participation trophies

On Tap in the Windy City: Stand-up Bartenders at Ironside Bar & Galley

Opinionated Woman: B. Smith has Alzheimer’s disease. Her husband has a girlfriend. I’m okay with it.

Opinionated Woman: Seven wild and wooly theories why Jussie Smollett got off practically scot-free

Purple Reigns: March Madness wasn’t all about basketball

Retired in Chicago: On “helping” students with college application essays

Spiritual Suckitude: Everything is broken… in the world, the country, my house. Here’s the one (strange) thing I’ve decided to do about it.

The Chicago Board of Tirade: In what fantasy does Andrew Lelling think that fairness has a place in America?

The Miracle Patient: A Woman’s Fertility —Specifically Mine— Is None of Your Stinkin’ Business

The White Rhino: Chicago Public Schools students interview survivors of gun violence