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Metrospective: Pop-up concert art exhibit puts Metro's music history on display
WGN Feature ReporterOn tonight's WGN News at Five, I went to check out the new pop-up art exhibit from the Chicago Loop Alliance. It's all about celebrating the 30th anniversary of Metro, the music venue at 3730 N. Clark. The exhibit features dozens of hand drawn concert...Tags: Entertainment, Culture, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies, Music
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Carey Howell Taylor, manager
Carey Howell Taylor, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. manager, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 84.
The son of the superintendent of secondary education for city public schools and a homemaker, Mr. Taylor was born in...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Pneumonia, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), The Pennsylvania State University
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Quintessential Chicago ad man has evolved with the industry, rising to the occasion
During four decades as a quintessential Chicago ad man, Ron Bess has steered campaigns for clients from McDonald's to Gatorade while climbing the ranks at some of the city's most prominent agencies.
Bess, a natural pitchman, well-schooled leader and...Tags: McDonald's, WPP Group Plc, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Michael Jordan, College Football
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Esperanza G. Ramirez
Esperanza G. Ramirez, a beloved Mother and grandmother went home to the Lord, on Thursday, November 3, 2011. She was born in Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico April 26, 1927. A 40 year resident of East Chicago, Indiana, Esperanza moved to Glendale, California...Tags: Mexico
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Daley floats tax break for Inland Steel building
Clout StFrom the Cityscape blog: Just days after the co-architect of Chicago's renowned Inland Steel Building died, Mayor Richard Daley's administration introduced a measure Wednesday to give the delayed rehab of the modernist landmark a multi-million-dollar... -
Sparrows Point called lifesaver for ailing mill
Sun reporterEach day, rail cars carrying steel slabs minted some 300 miles east at Baltimore County's Sparrows Point mill arrive at Esmark Inc.'s Wheeling-Pittsburgh plant here. Huge trucks with claws in their underbellies grab the slabs and haul them to Wheeling-...Tags: Unions, Justice System, Ohio, Bankruptcy, Unemployment
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Tribune Tower sale talk simmers
Tribune staff reporterTribune Tower's neo-Gothic architecture, facade carved of Indiana limestone and prime location make it an iconic gateway to North Michigan Avenue. But as Tribune Co., which occupies about 93.5 percent of the tower's 631,000 square feet, seeks to...Tags: New York, Real Estate Agents, Radio Industry, Tribune Tower, Property
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Forging America: The History of Bethlehem Steel - Chapter 5
FDR's secretary of labor, social reformer Frances Perkins, argued that the steel industry's low wages and ban against unions were undemocratic and threatened the nation's stability. All of the major steel companies had company unions, such as Bethlehem'...Tags: Unions, Firearms, Contracts, Government, U.S. Supreme Court
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5 Chicago executives' pay outpaces peers
Tribune staff reporterWhen chief executives talk about compensation, they frequently complain that critics fail to take into account the marketplace--the "war for talent" within industries and the benchmarks set by their peers. To try to assess how compensation for Chicago-...Tags: Northern Trust Corporation, Gaming, Management Change, Corporate Officers, Chicago Jobs
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Forging America: The History of Bethlehem Steel - Chapter 7
That same year, a small nuclear instrument and electronics company struggling to regroup after nearly going bankrupt began to redirect its core business away from electronics to steel joist manufacturing and ultimately toward steelmaking. Nuclear Corp. of...Tags: Nucor Corporation, Andrew Carnegie, Science and Technology, Electronics, Home Products
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Chicago's art and soul
Times Staff WriterSome said it looked like a rusty tin can. Others likened it to a baboon with wings. An editorial in the Chicago Tribune derided it as a "predatory grasshopper." Alderman John J. Hoellen even introduced a City Council resolution to have the piece removed....Tags: Pablo Picasso, Gaming, Navy Pier, Politics, Architecture
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Beauties and beasts
Tribune staff writersThe Loop is a visual feast of world-famous buildings, but it also offers rare cases of aesthetic indigestion. LOVELIEST: 1. Monadnock Building, 53 W. Jackson Blvd. -- An unadorned wonder, with thick brick walls that curve inward and upward to suggest an...Tags: Chicago Board of Trade Building, Arts and Culture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture, Richard J. Daley
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