American Idol 9 Chicago Auditions Recap Roundup

Here are recaps from all over the Internet of the American Idol 9 Auditions in Chicago. Please let me know if you prefer them as links this way, or as individual posts (with short summary). Thanks!

'Idol' Chicago Auditions: Jim Is Not Impressed (Jim Cantiello) - Video

American Idol Season 9 – Chicago Auditions (MJ Santilli) - "Shania Twain is the guest judge"

Chicago Auditions - Talk About Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Vote for the Worst)

‘American Idol’ Stays Aggressive In Chicago (Maura Johnston) - Now writing for Fancast!

The Windy City blew all the frau bait away! (Top Idol) - "I already love John Park. Why, you ask? He is EDUCATED (Northwestern!) and he is ASIAN! (He also seems to be a very skilled Twitter-er.)"

'American Idol' in Chicago: Shania Twain impressed us much! (Michael Slezak) - "It’s a bad sign when you don’t even need the fingers on one hand to count the number of truly talented contestants on an American Idol tryout show."

'American Idol' Chicago Auditions: That Don't Impress Me Much (Lindsey Parker) - "I was not nearly as impressed by the Chicago talent tonight as I was by last week's Atlanta hopefuls."

Chicago, Shania and commercials (Rodney Ho) - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

'Idol' Chicago auditions: slim pickings (Shirley Halperin) - Idol Tracker of the LA Times

Taking a Paige out of the Sam Cooke songbook (Brian Mansfield) - USA Today

“American Idol” Season 9 Chicago Auditions: TV Recap (WSJ Speakeasy) - "For such a dismal episode, it was nice not to start with the traditional dud (Katelyn Epperly)."