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    Apr 30, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Buckingham Fountain to be turned on Thursday

    The Chicago Park District will turn on Buckingham Fountain for its 86th season on Thursday, the district announced today.
    The Chicago Park District will turn on Buckingham Fountain for its 86th season on Thursday, the district announced today. The fountain, a memorial to Clarence Buckingham, was donated to the South Park Commission by his sister, Kate Buckingham, cost...

    Tags: Sears Holdings Corp., March of Dimes Foundation, Buckingham Fountain

    2. Apr 22, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Emanuel's trade: recycling carts for soft drink plugs

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday announced his latest partnership with Coca-Cola: The soft drink giant will pay for 50,000 blue recycling carts for Chicago homes and in return gets to put images of Coke products on the lids of the familiar bins.
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    Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday announced his latest partnership with Coca-Cola: The soft drink giant will pay for 50,000 blue recycling carts for Chicago homes and in return gets to put images of Coke products on the lids of the familiar bins. Emanuel tied...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Michael Bloomberg, Roseland, Coca-Cola Co., Diabetes

    3. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. 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 lakefront airport.
    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: Rahm Emanuel, Ecosystems, Jimmy Buffett, Political Corruption, Entertainment Events

    4. Mar 28, 2013 |Story| RedEye

  4. Great GoogaMooga festival in talks for Chicago offshoot

    RedEye
    Oh, you thought Lollapalooza was a strange festival name? Prepare for Great GoogaMooga. The hybrid food and music festival, which debuted last year in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, is in talks with the City of Chicago to bring a version of its weekend-...

    Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, The Flaming Lips (music group), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (music group), Music

    5. Apr 11, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Jazz meets tango in Pablo Aslan's grand experiment

    In 1959, Astor Piazzolla – a genius of tango composition and performance – released "Take Me Dancing," an album he later deemed an artistic "sin." The jazz-inspired recording, which Piazzolla had hoped would enable him to break through to...

    Tags: Concerts, Entertainment Events, Dance, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Arts and Culture

    6. Apr 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Lakefront sculptures

    Who is responsible for all the so-called artistic sculptures littering the park all down Lake Shore Drive? A few of the pieces are actually nice, but that is not the point: They don’t belong in the park. The Chicago Park District has forgotten...

    Tags: Sculpture, Arts, Arts and Culture

    7. Mar 14, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Emanuel moves playgrounds to front of Park District line

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel is moving playgrounds to the front of the line for the Chicago Park District’s limited construction money, with other big-ticket projects like new fieldhouses moving back in the queue.
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    Mayor Rahm Emanuel is moving playgrounds to the front of the line for the Chicago Park District’s limited construction money, with other big-ticket projects like new fieldhouses moving back in the queue. For the mayor, it’s about getting the...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Daniel Burnham, Pilsen

    8. Mar 12, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Emanuel stands by rejected police sergeants contract

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel maintained Tuesday that a pension fix overwhelmingly rejected by Chicago police sergeants remains a road map to restoring financial soundness to the city's woefully underfunded pension system.
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    Mayor Rahm Emanuel maintained Tuesday that a pension fix overwhelmingly rejected by Chicago police sergeants remains a road map to restoring financial soundness to the city's woefully underfunded pension system. “Every other aspect of this plan,...

    Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Pension and Welfare, Politics, Chicago Public Library

    9. Mar 10, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Remarkable Woman: Eunita Rushing

    Eunita Rushing feels at home when she's near plants, so perhaps it's no surprise that since 1999 she has been the enthusiastic president of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, which works in partnership with the Chicago Park District to raise funds and awareness for educational and public programs for the conservatory, located on the city's West Side.
    Eunita Rushing feels at home when she's near plants, so perhaps it's no surprise that since 1999 she has been the enthusiastic president of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, which works in partnership with the Chicago Park District to raise funds...

    Tags: Bronzeville, Jens Jensen, Garfield Park Conservatory, Loyola University Chicago

    10. Feb 28, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Emanuel chief of staff to leave next month

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s chief of staff is calling it quits in a couple of weeks and his chief operating officer will step up, the mayor told his senior staff on Thursday.
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    Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s chief of staff is calling it quits in a couple of weeks and his chief operating officer will step up, the mayor told his senior staff on Thursday. Theresa Mintle, a distant cousin of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, is resigning...

    Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Transit Authority, Richard M. Daley, Corporate Officers

    11. Feb 25, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Violence, Chicago and its storytellers

    A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a broad swath of the roughly $475 million needed for Millennium Park, the biggest and most successful cultural project in Chicago since the Columbian Exposition. He did so by putting together a coalition of donors, many of whom lived and worked in the suburbs.
    A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a broad swath of the roughly $475 million needed for Millennium Park, the biggest and most successful cultural project in Chicago since the...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Politics, Conservation, Murder, The New York Times

    12. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. SMG in line to keep running Soldier Field

    The company that manages Soldier Field, including maintaining the condition of the turf at the Bears’ lakefront home, is in line for a new 10-year deal, the Chicago Park District announced Friday evening.
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    The company that manages Soldier Field, including maintaining the condition of the turf at the Bears’ lakefront home, is in line for a new 10-year deal, the Chicago Park District announced Friday evening. A Park District panel set up to evaluate...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Rogers Park, Soldier Field, AEG, Chicago Mayor

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Eric Kelmar, assistant chief engineer with Chicago Park...
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