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Chicagoan Strautmanis headed to WH, too
The SwampBy Christi Parsons and John McCormick A Chicago native and longtime friend and aide to Barack Obama is being named chief of staff to Valerie Jarrett, the Chicago businesswoman and real-estate developer who will be Assistant to the President for......Tags: Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Career and Workplace
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Stingray Touch exhibit opens for summer at Shedd Aquarium
The surprise isn't that the Shedd Aquarium now has an exhibit where visitors can touch stingrays as they glide by, but rather that the most popular aquarium in the U.S. hasn't had one before now. Usually called something like Stingray Bay or Stingray...
Tags: Brookfield Zoo, Shedd Aquarium
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Richly stocked Beethoven Fest is city's best-kept cultural secret, so far
Although the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth won't arrive until 2020, George Lepauw isn't about to wait eight years to celebrate the German composer's titanic musical achievement, or the profound influence his music has exerted on the...
Tags: Music, Culture, Artists, Joffrey Ballet, Bradley Center
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Ambitious Beethoven fest wants listeners to feel the 'love'
Ludwig van Beethoven was forever pushing boundaries, and the annual Chicago festival that bears the composer's name continues to do the same, even more so than in the past. “Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013,” as the third edition is titled,...
Tags: Music, Artists, Pilsen, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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Trice: Obama-inspired quilt exhibit had troubled past
![When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67241505-08190944-187105.jpg "When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44,\" in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.")
When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to...Tags: Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Elections, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts and Culture
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Annoyance Theatre on the move
The Annoyance Theatre, a venerable Chicago comedy theater, is on the move. Jennifer Estlin, the theater's owner and executive producer, said Wednesday that it will exit its Uptown digs on the same block of North Broadway as the Uptown Theatre and move...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Theater, Annoyance Theatre, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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Consummate outsider artist Fred Burkhart emerges from underground
As you begin to read this story about Fred Burkhart, Fred Burkhart may be dead. That's a shock, I know, but it is what it is. In August, Burkhart was told that the prostate cancer he has been living with and fighting for more than three years had...
Tags: Punishment, Ku Klux Klan, Arts and Culture, Arts, Stroke
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JC's got a brand-new bag
Ten minutes to showtime. And there was no showman. "Where is he?" asked Ben Taylor, bassist of the Chicago soul revue JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, pacing beside a golf cart ready to whisk him and his band mates to the stage. JC Brooks, their magnetic...
Tags: Fitz and the Tantrums (music group), Otis Redding, Grant Park, Amy Winehouse, Arts and Culture
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Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation
Day 2 is done at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, and what a day Saturday was: It was sandwiched by much-anticipated sets by Chief Keef and Frank Ocean, and in between came the first evacuation in the festival’s Chicago history. Here’s how it...
Tags: Chicago Hotels, Grant Park, Empires (music group), Ashton Kutcher, Arts and Culture
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Rhyme, reason for the end
And now it's goodbye To the Rich Daley reign The fun and the glory The pleasure, the pain. For more than two decades He ruled like a king And answered his critics: "Put dis up your thing!" They called him "Boss Junior" A nod to his dad Who also was...Tags: Richard M. Daley, Pilsen, 2016 Olympic Games
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This fall, a Black Ensemble Theater transformed
Jackie Taylor, the founder and artistic director of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater, is staring at an utterly transformative fall.
On Nov. 18, the $19 million new Black Ensemble Theater will open at the hitherto moribund 4450 North Clark St.,...Tags: Otis Redding, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture, Illinois Governor, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Chicago gets a new superhero
WrigleyvilleTim Seeley a local Chicago writer that has worked for Marvel and DC Comics brings Witchblade to Chicago with issue 151 that comes out this Wednesday, January 4, 2012. With most comic book characters based out of New York, it’s a change of pace for a...
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