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<p align="left"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In case you missed the press coverage on bed bugs last week, SPCP was featured both on &nbsp;</span><span id="lw_1284996226_1" class="yshortcuts"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><a href="http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,80&amp;pid=DystGNz4uOgyOF0BhJbWGVyCYcuzOK3p">WTTW's Chicago Tonight</a></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&nbsp;&nbsp;and in the </span><a title="tinyurl" rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/24nx2xv" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span id="lw_1284996226_2" class="yshortcuts">Chicago Tribune's front page story</span> </span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">on bed bugs.&nbsp;SPCP's efforts&nbsp;led the&nbsp;City of Chicago to begin tracking bed bugs last year, resulting in the&nbsp;<span id="lw_1284996226_3" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">bed bug</span> incidence map. &nbsp;SPCP's work on this&nbsp;tracking effort was supported by the Searle Funds&nbsp;of &nbsp;the Chicago Community Trust. The current&nbsp;&nbsp;<span id="lw_1284996226_4" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">bed bug problem</span> in&nbsp;Chicago is a significant threat to the progress SPCP has made over the past 15 years to reduce pesticide use in our communities. SPCP has been leading the effort to provide unbiased information on safe and <span id="lw_1284996226_6" class="yshortcuts">effective pest control</span> methods to prevent the spread of bed bugs.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />
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