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Housing project preserves quality in time of tear-down
Jonathan Fine was walking through the old housing project looking for the right words. Georgian art deco fusion? Georgian eclectic with art deco thrown in? Colonial Revival? Whatever the right words are, they're not ones typically associated with...
Tags: Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Public Housing, Chicago Housing Authority, Arts and Culture
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North Shore Garden Club hosts garden walk “Garden Fantasies”
TribLocal - EvanstonVisit five special gardens in Highland Park and Lake Forest that include inspirational designs filled with beautiful and rare plants on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 …... -
The Garden Club of Evanston House Walk
TribLocal - EvanstonIn 1915, the founding members of The Garden Club of Evanston decided to create a Shakespeare Garden not only to celebrate the 300th birthday of …... -
Oak Park's Scoville Park to reopen by end of May
Scoville Park should reopen by the end of May, in time for the annual A Day in Our Village community festival, after the Park District of Oak Park has spent more than $2 million on renovations. A ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, June 1,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, World War I (1914-1918), Renovation, Travel, Tennis
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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...
Tags: Chicago Park District, Loyola University Chicago, Garfield Park Conservatory, Bronzeville
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Rick Kogan rediscovers Norbert Blei
The last time the name Norbert Blei appeared above a story in the Chicago Tribune was June 2, 1985. He wrote about the Clearing, a folk arts school founded in 1935 in Door County, Wis., by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen when he was 75. ...
Tags: Poetry, Newspapers, Mike Royko, Journalism, Chicago Tribune
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The Midwestern Vikings
![<b>"Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America"</b>](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/66400506-30161923.jpg "<b>"Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America\"</b>")
Tribune Newspapers"Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America" University of Minnesota Press, $22.95 Scandinavian culture, to use a Swedish slant, is more than hardtack and herring. Eric Dregni grew up fourth-generation Scandinavian in Minnesota of mostly...Tags: Herring, Joe Hill, Ernest Hemingway, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Parts of Garfield Park Conservatory reopen after hail damage
Portions of the Garfield Park Conservatory, devastated by Thursday night's massive hailstorms, reopened today.
The rooms of the 100-year-old conservatory that are open to the public sustained minimal damage during the storms because they were fitted with...Tags: Chicago Park District, Human Interest, New York, Garfield Park Conservatory, Central Park
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Plant yourself at a garden sale
Chicago TribunePlant sales offer splendid opportunities to buy a variety of plants – often unusual and/or heirloom varieties hard to find anywhere else, and a chance to talk shop with fellow gardeners. Most sales are held rain or shine; each listing has contact...Tags: Burlington (Kane, Illinois), Auction Service, Hobbies, Marquette Park, Courtland
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Glorious in its sophistication: Inspired by Jens Jensen, Bruce Hochstadter's 12-year-old garden captures contest's top honor
!["A native crabapple, a group of violets, a bird bath with a cardinal flower, a virgin's bower clinging to the crabapple, and perhaps a dash of iris or phlox, or lilies if you please, make a garden full of song and poetry."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2009-04/46604936.jpg ""A native crabapple, a group of violets, a bird bath with a cardinal flower, a virgin's bower clinging to the crabapple, and perhaps a dash of iris or phlox, or lilies if you please, make a garden full of song and poetry.\"")
Special to the Tribune"A native crabapple, a group of violets, a bird bath with a cardinal flower, a virgin's bower clinging to the crabapple, and perhaps a dash of iris or phlox, or lilies if you please, make a garden full of song and poetry." --"Siftings" by landscape...Tags: Henry Ford, Hobbies, Botany, Chicago Botanic Garden, Science
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July 8: Author - Cathy Maloney Talks About Her Book, The Gardener's Cottage in Riverside, Illinois: Living in a "Small Masterpiece" by Frank Lloyd Wright, Jens Jensen, and Frederick Law Olmsted
WGN NewsRiverside, Illinois, was designed in 1869 by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his architect partner Calvert Vaux. Their unique design, which followed the contours of the landscape and emphasized open spaces, inspired the greatest...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Illinois, Frederick Law Olmsted, Riverside (Cook, Illinois), WGN
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