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Best Urban Bike?

Ryan and I are moving to Chicago in August. One of the good things about this is that I won't have a 45 mile commute to work anymore. The University of Chicago is only about 7 miles from our future apartment. I was thinking about getting a bike for this commute, as it would be good my health and also cut out almost all of my gas expenses. Does anyone have any suggestions on what kind of bike I should get? I was looking at Trek's site and the Soho 3 looked good to me:

There's also a local Bike store here in Valpo (Jano Bicycles) and they sell Specialized bikes. This Specialized bike looked good to me as well:

Does anyone have any suggestions on which Bike I should get, or what I should look for in a good urban bike?