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Google giving away free admission to three Chicago museums
RedEyeFeel like a field trip? Just in time for a three day weekend, Google has announced users of its Field Trip app can snag free admission to The Adler Planetarium, The Field Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The free admission to...Tags: Google+, Trips and Vacations, Google Inc., Field Museum of Natural History, Museums
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'Cosmic Wonder': New Adler show goes deep into universe
I've seen three shows now in Adler Planetarium's still new, still state-of-the-art central domed theater, and I remain amazed at the quality of the celestial imagery and at the precision with which it is projected up on the dome. Journeys into distant...
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Human Interest, Microsoft Corporation, Arts and Culture
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Museums
Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org America's first planetarium has one of the world's greatest collections of antique astronomical instruments. One of those is the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft flown by...Tags: Elmo, Great Chicago Fire (1871), Girl Scouts of the USA, Arts and Culture, L (movie)
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Harris: Project gets off to 'beautiful' start
The stickers are simple and, well, beautiful. Printed on reflective silver, they're cut in the size and shape of a nametag and say "you are beautiful" in bold, black print. They're the "all-encompassing" artistic statement of Chicago graphic...
Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Apple iPhone, Science and Technology, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Auction Service
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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Career and Workplace, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture, Shedd Aquarium
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Research, Budgets and Budgeting, Goodman Theatre, Science and Technology, Lobbying
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10 years after Daley's Meigs Field raid, the makeover of Northerly Island is slow to take shape
Ten years ago as Mayor Richard M. Daley worked through political channels to accelerate federal approval to build new runways at the airport his father had dearly called "O'Hara," the mayor also issued an infamous order to destroy Chicago's little...
Tags: George Ryan, Political Corruption, Jimmy Buffett, Chicago Park District, Science and Technology
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O'Hare UFO sighting in 2006 one of the most famous reported
For RedEyeThe city of Chicago isn’t known as a hotbed of UFO activity, but O’Hare Airport is the home of one of the most publicized sightings of the last decade. A “flying saucer-like object” was spotted over Concourse C of the United...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Science, Weather, Weather Reports, Science and Technology
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Chicago X-files: Center studies UFOs
For RedEyeOpening a file cabinet at the Center for UFO Studies reveals manila folders marked with spine-tingling titles such as "Alien Luggage Report," "Project Moonwater" or "The CIA's role in UFO Studies." Yet, elsewhere there's a conspicuous lack of secret...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Science, Central Intelligence Agency, Research, Teaching and Learning
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Naperville teen misses final cut for 'American Idol'
Talented Naperville teenager Alex Oechsel loves to sing. She also acts, dances and plays guitar, but she mainly loves to sing. Perhaps that's why, after surviving multiple elimination rounds but missing the final cut to appear on the "American Idol"...
Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, American Idol (tv program), United Center, Keith Urban, Television Industry
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Signing up for summer camp
Frigid February temperatures notwithstanding, it's not too early to plan where to send the kids to camp this summer. Throughout the city and the suburbs, a number of museums, botanical gardens and zoos offer hands-on learning experiences built around...
Tags: Literature, Science, Lincoln Park Zoo, Morton Arboretum, Science and Technology
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The Force is with them
For RedEyeDarth Vader and a squadron of more than a dozen Imperial soldiers and Stormtroopers stroll into Chicago's Adler Planetarium on a Thursday night and gather around a large-scale model of the Earth as if planning to attack it with their superweapon the Death...Tags: Halloween, Apple iPhone, Social Issues, Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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