“You’re in a very exclusive fraternity when you’re a Cute Chicago Boy,” says Cara Higgins, co-creator of CuteChicagoBoys.com. Higgins and cohort Sarah Rodriguez prowl the streets, snapping pictures of Web-site-worthy fellas and posting their finds online. Since its June launch, the blog has received 1,500 hits a day and was featured on WGN and Fox News. “We look for urban, more interestingly dressed boys who hang at less douche-baggy places,” says Higgins. “You’ll never see some popped collar.” Dave Miller, a local musician, met the site’s standards when the girls photographed him last July at the Hideout. “Since two Cute Chicago Boys are in my band Algernon, Cara puts up Twitter posts about when we’re playing,” says Miller. Higgins “hates the word indie, but in the subculture of these neighborhoods, we’re definitively creating a community.”
