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6 hopefuls vie for Maercker school board
Six individuals, including three incumbents, are running for four open school board seats in Maercker School District 60. The newcomers seeking to serve on the board include Hinsdale resident Art Andersen, Westmont resident Pradeep Tekkey and Darien...Tags: Iowa State University , Colleges and Universities, Columbia College Chicago, PTA
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Jazz resolutions for a New Year
A new year brings new hopes for music in Chicago. Here are key resolutions for 2013: Create a concise Cultural Plan. After months of town hall meetings, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events last fall came up with a 48-page wish...
Tags: Chicago Jazz Fest, Culture, Millennium Park, John Travolta, Music Industry
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Advanced education can fast track career growth
On the fence about an advanced degree? Looking down the road at the stress, juggling and homework and not always being able to see where that road leads can be a deterrent. But, adults in a variety of fields who have returned to school to pursue their...
Tags: Students, Teachers, Employment, Starbucks Corp., Science and Technology
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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
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Graduates cooking up new ways to utilize degrees in dietetics
Dietitians were once found mainly in hospitals and health care facilities treating patients with diabetes or kidney issues. While those needs still exist, healthy eating, overcoming the obesity epidemic, quality school lunches and bio-engineered foods...
Tags: Diabetes, Weight, Health and Safety at School, Rush University, Healthy Diet
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$200K bail for man charged with beating dog to death
Tribune reporterA $200,000 bail was set today for a Lakeview school teacher charged with punching his dog to death in anger when it refused to get into a bathtub after it “ate every piece of paper” in the man's apartment and soiled itself. Derek Fierro, 25,...Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Health and Safety at School, Cook County Government, Prosecution
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The stitching hour
Fashion students get used to pulling all-nighters in the studio as deadlines approach.
But heading into the 11th annual Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence recently, Maribel Dinwiddie thought she could rest easy, knowing her last loose thread had been...Tags: Entertainment, Students, Conde Nast Publications, The Wall Street Journal, Robert Frost
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Bookmark: Farewell to the wild one
For every kid with a scraped knee, a skinned elbow, a bumped head and a torn shirt — the inevitable result of being very determined not to learn from one's mistakes — Maurice Sendak was your man. For every kid who builds forts out of old...Tags: Tony Kushner, Entertainment, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Chicago Tribune, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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In Cook County, campus sex-assault suspects rarely prosecuted
Chicago State University police Chief Ronnie Watson was convinced he had a rape case on his hands in the early morning hours of Feb. 20, 2010.
An 18-year-old freshman reported being attacked by a fellow student after going to his dorm room to listen to...Tags: Crimes, Laws, Health and Safety at School, The Pennsylvania State University, Rape
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Taylor Park renovations reveal climbing boulders, wetlands
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsOak Park's latest green space to undergo renovations recently celebrated a reopening, now boasting a new ADA-accessible playground, a wetlands wildlife area, updated tennis courts …... -
Local trio collect invites
Former Newport Harbor High standout Kirby Burnham and UC Irvine starters Aly Squires and Kristin Winkler are among 48 players selected to participate in the U.S women's national A2 volleyball team program this summer. Burnham, a 6-foot-3 outside hitter...Tags: High School Sports, Tennis, Volleyball, Soccer, University of California, Los Angeles
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Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home for sale
Special to the TribuneThe Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park has placed the legendary author’s boyhood home in Oak Park up for sale for $525,000. Plans by the foundation to convert the house from its current use as a three-unit apartment house to a learning...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Rentals, Homes
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