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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: Immigration, CNN (tv network), Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Politics, 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: CNN (tv network), Grant Park, Loyola University Chicago, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities
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Hu's the boss
"They say, 'Tony, you're so crazy.' Yes, I am."
You heard it from Tony Hu himself, chieftain of Chinatown. Something's off in his bitter melon. A sane businessman wouldn't open seven restaurants within a half-square-mile area, yet here we are, an...Tags: Lao Sze Chuan, Dining and Drinking, Chicago Chinese Restaurants, Education, Media Industry
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Pressed to find classic duck dish
Q: Many years ago I was dining in a restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown. I ordered pressed duck. It was served in a deep fried form about 6 inches in length, 4 inches wide and about an inch or so thick. The vegetables were pressed together with the duck and...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Chinese Restaurants, Judges, Almonds, Bob Hope
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Attention young bookworms!
It's summertime, and school's out. It's time to kick off your shoes, settle into a relaxing place and read the day away. Then, be a critic. Tell us what you thought of a book you recently read, and you could be published in Printers Row Journal. Kids...
Tags: Michael Jordan, Arts and Culture, Music, Lane Smith, Chicago Public Library
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Local Q&A: Panoramic & True
Panoramic & True's sophomore album "Wonderlust" aspires to the orchestral indie-pop of similarly minded acts like Canadian collective Broken Social Scene. There's vibrancy and immediacy to P&T's music that was inspired at least in part by the throwback...
Tags: Canada, Millennium Park, Music, Arts and Culture, Mexico
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Board to honor 2 who subdued man with sword on CTA
RedEyeThe Chicago Transit Board on Wednesday will commend a CTA manager and a security officer for subduing a sword-wielding man on the system last month. A man allegedly stole a sword from a Chinatown shop and ran to the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line station,...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority
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CTA closer to restoring some bus service to 31st Street
Tribune reporterThe CTA took an “incremental step’’ today toward restoring bus service that was eliminated 15 years ago along 31st Street on the Southwest Side due to dwindling ridership. But members of multiple Chicago communities where the population...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Forrest Claypool, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Public Transportation, Metra
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July 19: Focus on Family - Family Adventures
WGN NewsFamily Adventures Through August 27 Pilsen: Friday, July 22 and Friday, August 26 Hyde Park: Saturday, July 23 and Friday, August 5 Jackson Park: Friday, July 29 and Saturday, August 27 Lincoln Park: Saturday, August 6 Lincoln Square: Friday, August 12...Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park, WGN, Lincoln Square (Chicago, Illinois), Garfield Park
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Cops: Motorcyclist plunges 40 feet over feeder ramp wall
Tribune reporterA motorcyclist slammed into a concrete wall on a feeder ramp between the Dan Ryan and Stevenson expressways and tumbled over, falling about 40 feet to the pavement below, authorities say. The 22-year-old motorcyclist landed on his feet on a grassy...Tags: Highway Transportation, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
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'Little Red Guard' author Wen Huang has come to terms with his father, and with China
Chicago Tribune reporterWen Huang suggested we go to Chinatown. Initially, the idea seemed gauche, kitschy, stereotypical — the last place in Chicago you would want to meet a local writer whose thoughtful new memoir recounts his childhood in China. Indeed, to anyone...Tags: Literature, Political Corruption, China, Arts and Culture, Communist Party of China
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Man sold nearly 50 guns on Chicago streets, federal charges say
Tribune reporterA South Side felon has been charged in a federal complaint for peddling nearly 50 guns onto Chicago’s streets in less than two weeks. Levaine Tanksley is accused of selling 47 guns, many of them semi-automatic pistols, to a confidential informant,...Tags: Trials, Firearms, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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