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Chicago Jazz Festival moving to Millennium Park
After more than three decades at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park, the Chicago Jazz Festival will be leaving the venue for Millennium Park, according to the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). Though in recent...
Tags: Music Industry, Chicago Cultural Center, Music, Chicago Loop, Festive Events
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Condominiums offer exceptional value
A newly built condominium unit in the sought-after financial district of Chicago no longer has to be something to envy. With the construction of 235 Van Buren it can be home. "The condominiums offer an exceptional value without compromising on style,"...
Tags: Vehicles, Condos, Services and Shopping, Arts and Culture, Lobbying
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Glorious sounds soar above season of economic gloom
No musical news story in 2012 drew greater media attention, inside and outside Chicago, than the strike that silenced the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 48 hours in late September. The cliffhanger was resolved just in time for the CSO to fulfill a...
Tags: Concerts, Frankfort, Poetry, Music Industry, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Inez Andrews, towering gospel artist, dead at 83
Chicago gospel icon Inez Andrews was the last of her kind, a towering figure from a golden age when giants such as Mahalia Jackson, Albertina Walker and DeLois Barrett Campbell still toured the world. Andrews' throaty contralto made her low notes...
Tags: Gospel (genre), Music, Entertainment, Aretha Franklin
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Top concerts of 2012
Here are my favorite concerts from 2012: 1. Neutral Milk Hotel at Athenaeum Theatre, Feb. 6: After releasing two acclaimed albums in the ‘90s, Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum drifted away for more than a decade. His return stacked up as...
Tags: United Center, Music, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Diabetes, Festive Events
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Luxury buyers find options at Millennium
Luxury real estate in downtown Chicago came roaring back in 2012, experiencing its best year since 2008. According to a recent report, sales of million-dollar homes rose by 15 percent last year, and while the rebound has been welcome news to sellers, it...
Tags: Magnificent Mile, Personal Service, Art Institute of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Real Estate Buyers
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Fast track to the American dream
— Amid the skyscrapers and coal power plants in this fast-growing manufacturing city of nearly 13 million people, eager investors filed into a convention center that thumped with dance music from a Florida beach party video. On sale was the dream...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Ann Lee, Interior Policy, Justice System, Immigration
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A little escapism — with social conscience thrown in
Some time back, I put out a call for your favorite political movies. And with only about a week left in the presidential campaign between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney — as we divide into tribes and hoot menacingly at one another —...
Tags: Elections, White House, John Doe, Barack Obama, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (movie)
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Obama rally: McCormick Place site to limit attendance
Four years ago, Janesh Rahlan watched the Grant Park presidential election extravaganza play out on TV from the confines of his parent's Aurora home. "I did want to go, but my parents said that is not happening on a school night," said Rahlan, now 20 and...
Tags: McCormick Place, Elections, Obama U.S. Presidential Victory Rally (2008), CNN (tv network), Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois)
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McCormick Place to host Obama's election-night rally
President Barack Obama plans to hold his election-night rally at Chicago's McCormick Place convention center, a move aimed at easing concerns over weather and security, sources with knowledge of the event said Wednesday. Given the indoor location, the...
Tags: Obama U.S. Presidential Victory Rally (2008), Elections, Time Warner Cable Arena, Barack Obama, McCormick Place
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Election night plans are a question mark for many Obama supporters
While President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is planning a private party in McCormick Place for supporters on election night, plans for a smattering of open gatherings are beginning to emerge in the final days of the presidential race. An...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Elections, Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois), CNN (tv network), Barack Obama
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Obama campaign plans 'watch party'
Whoever wins the campaign for president a week from Tuesday, this election night is not likely to resemble 2008 on the streets of Chicago. Four years ago, Chicago police blanketed the streets of downtown as streams of jubilant Barack Obama supporters...
Tags: McCormick Place, Elections, Chicago Police Department, International Organizations, Barack Obama
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