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High-tech treatment makes city tours hip

The voice is tough, edgy, proud. It sounds like Chicago.

These streets, these streets made me

These people, these people influenced me

This city, this is my world

Chi-town.

These words kick off a new Chicago walking tour that launched in August, a one-hour, one-mile stroll through some of the best-known parts of the city.

The words come with a high-tech twist: The walking tour is downloadable as digital audio files that can be loaded onto your portable MP3 player to consume while you walk.

Your guide for this tour is 31-year-old hip-hop poet Kevin Coval, whose Web site is http://www.melekyonin.com.

Raised in Northbrook and a graduate of Glenbrook North High School, Coval is one of the country’s top performers of his craft. He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam in four of the show’s five seasons.

Alex L. Goldfayn

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0609040010sep04,1,3999682.story?coll=chi-business-hed

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