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Congress Plaza Hotel strike ends after 10 years
A strike at the Congress Plaza Hotel in downtown Chicago that lasted 10 years has ended. Unite Here Local 1, the union representing cleaning and maintenance workers, offered an unconditional return to work as of midnight Wednesday. The union Thursday...
Tags: Politics, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, U.S. Congress, Unions, Trials
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10-year strike at Congress Plaza Hotel is over
Tribune staff reportA 10-year strike at the Congress Plaza hotel in downtown Chicago -- believed to be the longest hotel strike in the world --has ended. An attorney for the hotel said Unite Here Local 1, the union representing cleaning and maintenance workers, has offered...Tags: Politics, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Unions, Trials, Bankruptcy
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Rosenthal: Rejuvenation of South Side the fair thing to do
President Grover Cleveland pressed an electric switch, powering the pumps for massive fountains. The jets of water in turn cued the unfurling of flags. What was described as "profound silence" gave way to a cacophony, and the World's Columbian...
Tags: Architecture, Midway, Chicago Loop, Jackson Park, University of Chicago
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This presidential database loves running and Legos
Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and running so fast across the living room to flip onto the couch that his feet end up pointing at the ceiling. He also loves the presidents — especially 11 and 33. Arden knows all 44 U.S. presidents. In order....
Tags: Politics, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, George H.W. Bush, Chester Alan Arthur
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Student tweets help cops arrest Cleveland High stabbing suspects
In the age of Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools, Los Angeles police officials say they relied on students at a Reseda high school and their social media skills to help catch a trio of murder suspects Thursday. About 12:15 a.m., just eight...
Tags: Students, Social Media, Teaching and Learning, Twitter, Inc., Gang Activity
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Body of work: Einstein's brain and other medical history at Philadelphia museum
Mutter Museum may leave you shocked and horrified or amazed and fascinated. Either way, its collections of bones, bodies, body parts, plus tumors and other terrors, are unforgettable. The nation's finest and oldest medical museum — celebrating...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Culture, University of Pennsylvania, Science and Technology, Hospitals and Clinics
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Art Callaham: Some more fun facts about our presidents
Early after the first of this year, I wrote a column concerning interesting facts about our presidents, and I promised to write more. That column and this one — and possibly some future ones — are based on a book by Cormac O’Brien titled...Tags: Politics, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Parties and Movements
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'The Accursed' by Joyce Carol Oates: An engrossing throwback
In her long and famously prolific career as a novelist, Joyce Carol Oates has worked in many different modes, from the social realism of her National Book Award-winning "them" (1969) and the neo-Gothic storytelling of "Bellefleur" (1980) to the...
Tags: Politics, Princeton University, Racism, Mark Twain, USA Today
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Presidential sex scandals plentiful
When it comes to sex scandals, South Florida author Robert Watson said Tuesday, Bill Clinton wasn't the first or the worst among presidents who've had dalliances before and during their time in the White House. "There's a long history of these...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Politics, Lynn University, Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Quiz: Some trivia at inauguration 2013; first president in pants?
President Obama will be formally sworn in for his second term in office Jan. 21. He is the 43rd man to take the oath of office. Yes, Obama is the 44th president, but Grover Cleveland gets counted twice because his terms were not consecutive. To...
Tags: Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin
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B&O had storied passenger service
Joseph J. Snyder has more than a passing interest in railroading and especially the venerable Baltimore & Ohio, whose storied passenger service is the subject of his recently published book. The B&O invented the passenger train. On Jan. 7, 1830, a...
Tags: Travel, Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Lifestyle and Leisure, World War II (1939-1945)
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Despite bullets in Miami, FDR conquered Central Florida in open motorcade
Preparations for the 57th Inauguration on Jan. 21 inspire recollections of storied presidential visits to Central Florida. When Grover Cleveland arrived in 1888, for example, his reception was a bit chilly: The Orlando Ice Works presented him with a...
Tags: George Washington, Barack Obama, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Rollins College, Polio
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