But it's the city I hate to love, and I won't go back -- especially now that I'm raising a son.

CNN: Chicago's violence took my dad, friends

Love em or hate em, Gawker mini-mogul Nick Denton (soon, I hear, to be the subject of a long New Yorker profile) does have a knack of knowing what readers want and serving it up to them.

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