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Earth Ball celebrates new Field exhibit
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe Women's Board of the Field Museum hosted its annual black-tie fundraiser, this year themed Earth: Our Big Beautiful Ball, with a reception, seated dinner and dancing to the City Lights Orchestra under massive glowing orbs representing the Earth. The...Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture
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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 Inc., Arts, Adler Planetarium, Google+, Museums
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Watch Chicago's baby Falcons live from your desk
The ‘Hawks aren’t on tonight, but the Falcons are playing right now in Chicago. Two recently hatched Falcons and their territorial mother are currently perched atop 1130 S. Michigan Avenue, and the property – in conjunction with...
Tags: Chicago Blackhawks, Museums, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Arts and Culture
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The Bean featured as cover photo on Bing search engine
The Bean just got Binged. People doing online searches Tuesday via Bing were being treated to a full-screen image of Cloud Gate, the official name of the sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, as it reflects some of the city's skyscrapers. A "Like"...
Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Online Media Industry, O'Hare International Airport
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The Bean featured as cover photo on Bing search engine
Tribune reporterThe Bean just got binged. People doing online searches Tuesday via Bing were being treated to a full-screen image of Cloud Gate, the official name of the glassy sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park as it reflects some of the city's skyscrapers. A...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Cloud Gate, Arts, Millennium Park, Online Media Industry
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How Chicago can help migrating flocks survive
If you're out and about in downtown Chicago in the wee hours, you may see small groups of people nosing around the bases of skyscrapers, looking intently at the sidewalks — and picking up things. Those "things," in this case, are birds. Every...
Tags: Politics, Lobbying, Tribune Tower
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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...
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At the Lincoln Park Zoo, camping out under the monkeys
The campfire was in a metal pit, under a great, wide roof. The tents were pitched on a well-tended lawn, with help from people who work for an outdoors store. Bears were a threat only if someone had forgotten to lock an enclosure door. And dinner was...
Tags: Lincoln Park Zoo, Brooklyn (New York City), Brookfield Zoo, Adler Planetarium, Museum of Science and Industry
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Ocean wonders abound in Field Museum's 'Creatures of Light'
It's dark in the rooms that hold the new exhibition at the Field Museum, dark almost like in the deep ocean where many of the featured "Creatures of Light" live. It's dim enough to get you wondering if you, too, after enough time in an environment...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Science and Technology, Science, Lifestyle and Leisure, Museum of Natural History
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Anti-war demonstrators at Boeing annual meeting protest drones
Tribune reporterAbout a dozen anti-war activists protested Boeing's annual meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History on Monday, arguing against the world's largest plane maker's production of drones and its financial support by the city of Chicago. While most...Tags: Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Protest, Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Boeing Co.
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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: Political Fundraising, Corporate Officers, Daniel Burnham, Budgets and Budgeting, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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: Great Chicago Fire (1871), Girl Scouts of the USA, China, Marshall Field, Shedd Aquarium
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