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What to see in Chicago
Overhead trains, river-touring boats, legendary dinosaurs and American Girls: Chicago's best attractions appeal to all ages. And though it's a big city, Chicago extends a warm Midwestern welcome to visitors while keeping it real with an ample dose of...
Tags: Museums, Navy Pier, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Tribune, Cloud Gate
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Bird-watchers fear the worst as Park District removes trees near Wooded Island
The birders made a plea last month when they saw two trees marked for destruction just outside the bird haven in Jackson Park. Wait a few more weeks, they asked, until the height of migration season is over. Although the trees aren't in the bird...
Tags: Chicago Park District, Jackson Park, Arts and Culture, Frederick Law Olmsted, Japan
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Paul Natkin: Through the lens of rock 'n' roll
Every picture tells a story. In Paul Natkin's world, sometimes multiple stories. Take, for example, his portrait of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards. It's all there: the smirk, the skull ring, the cigarette butt in his right hand. And, yeah, he's...
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Museums, Photography, Rolling Stone, Arts and Culture
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Local Voices, May. 29
Childhood obesity This letter is in response to "In schools, BMI a weighty issue; Some parents say body fat measure hurts self-esteem, poses other risks" (Page 1, May 17). The article raises some great questions as to how we can best contend with the...Tags: Politics, Weight, American Cancer Society, Overweight, Cervical Cancer
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Reminder: Bike the Drive is Sunday
RedEyeDrivers will need to steer clear of Lake Shore Drive on Sunday morning. Lake Shore Drive will be closed to vehicular traffic to allow cyclists to pedal for 30 miles all the way from Bryn Mawr Avenue to the north and 57th Street to the south for the MB...Tags: MB Financial Inc., Bike the Drive
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Gerard Pawlicki, 1921-2013
Gerard Pawlicki was just out of DePaul University when he joined Enrico Fermi, Walter Zinn, George Weil and other seasoned scientists as they lifted their paper cups filled with Chianti wine, celebrating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Science and Technology
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CTA, University of Chicago reach bus deal
RedEyeThe CTA board is poised to approve an agreement Wednesday with the University of Chicago that would allow the CTA to continue to operate four campus bus routes for five years. The buses that would continue to run are the Nos. 170-U. of Chicago/Midway,...Tags: University of Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, Science and Technology, Education
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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: 2016 Olympic Games, Museums, White House, Barack Obama, Daniel Burnham
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Breakfast standards and so much more
For Spiros Argiris and Gus Sellis, the story of their lives is written on the walls. Argiris points around the room at the Valois Cafeteria's murals: the Museum of Science and Industry, Hyde Park Bank, the South Side lakeshore. Then he points to the...
Tags: Steak and Eggs, Barack Obama, Chicago White Sox, Steaks, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Brace yourself for the invasion of the giant mosquitoes
We've got it all here in Florida, and this isn't even a horror flick — car-eating sinkholes, monster storms, pythons in the wild, sharks in the water, alligators in back yards and pit bulls in trailers. Now, Mother Nature is about to whack us with...
Tags: Halloween, Tropical Storms, Tampa, Mother's Day, Father's Day
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Museums, New York City, Fine Artists, Woody Allen, Architecture
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'Animal Inside Out' is Body Worlds' take on beasts and birds
The last time the Body Worlds people displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry, in a 2011 exhibition showing the development and decline of the human corpus, they included, with seeming incongruity, an ostrich. The flightless — and, in...
Tags: Museums, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Conservation
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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 7, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Apr 12, 2013
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Mar 13, 2013
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