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CHICAGO For years, this brown-brick building near Wrigley Field housed people who had nowhere else to go. It had peeling walls and broken smoke detectors. But its tiny one-room apartments offered homes to residents too poor for a one-bedroom, too risky to pass a credit check, too vulnerable on the perpetual edge of homelessness to sign a one-year lease.

Today, from the outside, the building looks the same: six stories, with tall windows and an elaborately carved entryway that still announces the property by its pre-World War II name, the Hotel Carlos. But it now contains studios remodeled with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and hardwood floors. Rent reaches $1,125 a month. The ad in the window promises vintage charm.

In buildings like this one on Chicagos North Side, the shrinking pool of affordable housing a problem facing many thriving cities is playing out in a particularly vividway. Often, gentrification displaces the poor through less directmeans: Wealthier residents move in, businesses catering to them follow, property values rise, the economics of a neighborhood change, and longtime residents are priced out. But here and in other former single room occupancy hotels in Chicago the displacement is much more literal.

It is one unit for one unit, one single, living alone, for another single, living alone. Young professionals are moving in to occupy the very same and very small spaces recently home to people living on less than $1,000 a month. In their remodeled homes, sometimes as small as 250 square feet, what was once deteriorating becomes vintage.

When the building near Wrigley was sold to a developer in 2011, the low-income residents in its 130 units had to move out. And then something similar happened at the Abbott Hotel on Belmont. And the Norman on Wilson, and the Chateau on Broadway, and the Lawrence House in Uptown.

Its like a systematic taking over of where poor people live, says Adelaide Meyers, a soft-spoken 47-year-old woman who had to leave the Norman. She now lives in an apartment, where her father had to co-sign the lease, on the far north side of the city. The crime is worse in that part of town.

For Chicago, the debate over these buildings captures a larger tension that is simultaneously playing out in parts of Los Angeles and New York and Washington: The new owners and tenants moving in bring higher tax dollars, capital to revive old buildings and momentum to draw even more young professionals. But those benefits have come at a cost. Now Chicago is trying to save what amounts to 6,000 remaining SRO units, a small fraction of what once existed in the city as a housing stock of last resort for the poor.

Today, the city council will weigh approval of an ordinance aimed at protecting the buildings and their residents. Developers and building owners have argued, though, that the new law would unfairly expect a few property owners in the city to take responsibility for a problem Chicago's shortage of affordable housing far beyond their control.

In an unfortunate twist of geography, many of the remaining SROs in Chicago happen to be located in lakefront neighborhoods on the North Side that are now in vogue. Since 2011, developers there have bought more than 2,000 low-income units for conversion into high-end apartments where the rent costs twice as much.

The properties arent simply demolished, cleared for wholesales redevelopment, because while they may be crumbling on the inside, they are often beautiful from the street, wrapped in art deco details or stone filigree. For new residents, these places embody an alternative to yuppie Chicago: historic architecture instead of cookie-cutter construction, authentic neighborhoods instead of ritzy ones.

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In a sweeping announcement that included six other new products, Quirky announced a new, modular reinvention of the Spotter Multipurpose Sensor. Starting at just $30 and dubbed the Spotter Uniq, the new device allows users to pick up to four sensors or functions from an expanded variety of options.

Sensor options include what we saw in last year's Spotter (sound, motion, light, temperature, and humidity), along with several new additions, including air quality, carbon monoxide, barometric pressure, and moisture detectors. You'll also be able to add buttons, an LED screen, a lithium ion battery, a microphone, speakers, a gyroscope, or an accelerometer.

In addition to the sensors, you'll be able to customize the look of the device, too, with white, black, and green finishes available for each component, as well as the body of the device itself. Choose any of the finishes for a uniform design, or mix and match your colors -- it's up to you.

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Like the rest of the tech in the Quirky + GE family, you'll control the Spotter Uniq through the free Wink app for Android and iOS devices. Like the original Spotter, you'll be able to program the different sensors to trigger other connected gadgets in your Wink ecosystem. Motion detection could trigger a lamp to turn on, for instance.

In our tests, we've always come away impressed with the Wink app, though some of Quirky's products -- including last year's Spotter -- haven't performed up to our expectations. If the hardware in the Spotter Uniq is truly new and improved, then it looks to be an especially smart addition to Quirky's lineup.

With a starting price of $30 (or as much as $120, depending on the tech you choose), the Spotter Uniq can be ordered online starting today, along with Quirky's other new additions, which include a connected garage door opener, and the Norm, Quirky's stab at a smart thermostat. The Spotter Uniq will be built small batch at Quirky's new microfactory in San Francisco, CA. Units are expected to ship out in December of this year.

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Thousands travel yearly to the National World War II museum in New Orleans wanting a closer look at wartime life.

Staff at the museum said their new exhibit, "Road to Berlin," is scheduled to open next month. They said it will attract even more people when it does.

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Well we're in Tunisia at the Battle of Kasserine Pass where we got our hats handed to us, said Owen Glendening, the museums associate vice president of Education and Arts.

Glendening is referring to a replica of portions of North Africa, which is one of nine brand new displays at the Road to Berlin exhibit. Visitors start there and proceed through another eight rooms where they'll see different artifacts, equipment, terrains and even multimedia displays that allow them to follow along the journey.

It was a global effort. It was the good guys versus the bad guys," Glendening said. "In these galleries, we remember what was at stake, which was everything -- our way of life, our democracy and our freedom."

Senior vice president of Capital Programs Bob Farnsworth said this is a project that is several years in the making. He added its a part of the master plan for the museum that includes a parking garage, hotel and future additions to the war exhibits.

Everyone at the museum feels like it's a tremendous honor to be a part of what we're creating, Farnsworth said. Were building not just a history museum in the South, but one of the great museums in the world.

Glendening said this display, like those that will come in the future, is highly detailed and includes audience interaction technology. He said those touches set them apart from a regular war museum and draw in younger visitors

We all have a personal connection to World War II, Glendening said. Everybody can find one, but the more distant we get to that down through the generations, the more important it is to sustain that story. Thats what I think we're doing here.

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