@charset "UTF-8";
body  {
	font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #676767 url(images/body_bg.jpg) repeat-x;
	margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0;
	text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #333333;
}
 #container {
	width: 780px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0 auto;
	text-align: left;
	border-right: 1px solid #394b6c;
	border-left: 1px solid #394b6c;
} 
 #header {
	background: #3C3C3C url(images/chicago_header.jpg) no-repeat right top;
	padding: 0;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
} 
 #header h1 {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
	padding: 0px; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
}
#header h1 span {
	position: absolute;
	top: -10000px;
}
#nav {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	list-style: none;
	float: left;
	width: 780px;
	border-top: 2px solid #FFFFFF;
	border-bottom: 2px solid #838383;
	background-color: #cccccc;
}
#nav li {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	float: left;
}
#nav a {
	color: #283A50;
	text-decoration: none;
	line-height: 2;
	border-right: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
	float: left;
	width: 129px;
	text-align: center;
}
#nav a:hover {
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
#nav #nav_last a {
	border-right: 1px solid #BF998E;
}
 #sidebar1 {
	float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	width: 220px;
	padding-top: 25px;
	padding-right: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 15px;
	padding-left: 25px;
}
.pod {
	width: 220px;
	padding: 0 0 20px;
	background-color: #484848;
	background-image: url(images/bottom_pod.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: left bottom;
}
.pod dt {
background: url(images/top_pod.gif) no-repeat;
padding: 20px 20px 0;
font-size: 110%;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0;
}
.pod dd {
padding: 10px 20px 0;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0;
font-size: 80%;
}
 #mainContent {
	margin: 0; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
	float: left;
	width: 480px;
	padding-top: 25px;
	padding-right: 20px;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	padding-left: 20px;
} 
#mainContent h1 {
	font-size: 150%;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #525252;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}
#mainContent h2 {
	color: #505050;
	font-size: 120%;
	font-weight: normal;
}
#mainContent p {
	font-size: 80%;
	line-height: 1.4;
}
 #footer {
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px;
	background-color: #000000;
} 
 #footer p {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
	padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
	font-size: 70%;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
	float: left;
	margin-right: 8px;
}
.fltctr { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
	float: none;
	border: 1px solid #333333;
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
	clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
}
