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Foundation sells Hemingway’s boyhood home
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsAn Oak Park couple purchased Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home Tuesday and plan to restore the three-flat back to its original use as a single family …... -
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Access Contemporary Music: Resident ensemble Palomar is joined by Strawdog Theatre Company actors to present "1,001 Afternoons in Chicago," a play for voices and instruments based on legendary Chicago journalist Ben Hecht's newspaper columns. 7 p.m....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, South Shore, Arts and Culture
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Swearing off letting kids curse
Jiminy Cricket! The notion of allowing your children to use swear words — in certain controlled settings, when they are old enough — provokes heated response. I know, because I suggested that very notion in this column a few weeks ago and...
Tags: Slang, Education, Religious Texts, Bible, Religion and Belief
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Flood helps unearth treasure in Oak Park
While floods can wipe out family treasures, they sometimes can reveal long lost ones. Kevin McCarey was working outside his house on Lyman Avenue in Oak Park, preparing a raised garden bed, shortly after the late April rain had soaked his yard. As he...Tags: Baylor University , Colleges and Universities
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La Grange, Oak Park, River Forest police blotter: May 6
The following items were taken from police reports: La Grange Noise disturbance A woman reported being woken up by sidewalk cleaning and street sweeping May 3 in the 70 block of East Harris Street. Theft A theft valued at more than $500 was...
Tags: Assault, Crimes, Chicago Tribune, Wars and Interventions, Hugo Boss
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Carmel principal prepares to retire from Mundelein school
After 34 years and five different positions at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, Lynne Strutzel said while she enjoyed the challenges of being principal, nothing will compare to the feeling of being a teacher. "I never wanted to be anything but a...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Roosevelt University, Teaching and Learning, Loyola University Chicago, Students
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Elie Wiesel's story endures, empowers
NEW YORK — A slender, silver-haired gentleman steps onto a nearly bare stage, the instantaneous applause continuing long after he reaches the spare wooden table awaiting him. For a moment, amid the din, he studies the audience — young and...
Tags: United Nations, Chicago Tribune, France, Religious Texts, Upper East Side
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Dominican graduation to be at UIC
For the first time, Dominican University students will enjoy the pomp and circumstance of their graduation day away from the River Forest campus, and all the families in the audience will be able to cheer from the same room. "For years we've just been...Tags: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Colleges and Universities, Graduation, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Oak Park library director is selected
David Seleb says he knew the Oak Park Public Library was nationally recognized and well-supported in the community before he was hired as the new executive director, starting May 1. But he still wants to talk to library staff and the community about how...
Tags: Libraries, River Forest, Wheeling, Arts and Culture
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Wild Thing: Maurice Sendak made incomparable art from childhood's monsters
For every kid with a scraped knee, a skinned elbow, a bumped head and a torn shirt — the inevitable result of being very determined not to learn from one's mistakes — Maurice Sendak was your man. For every kid who builds forts out of old...
Tags: Carole King, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Julia Keller, Entertainment, Music
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A grand weekend for jazz singing
This weekend could be one for the record books, with an extraordinary confluence of major vocalists converging on our stages. Though they span a wide stylistic swath – from blues to jazz to classic pop and beyond – the level of singing...
Tags: Grammy Awards, Shemekia Copeland, Tony Awards, Natalie Cole, Koko Taylor
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Mary Ann McMorrow, 1st female state Supreme Court Justice dies
Tribune reporterWhen Mary Ann McMorrow was a Cook County assistant state's attorney, a supervisor told her that a male colleague would argue the points in a legal brief that she prepared for the Illinois Supreme Court. Women just didn't go in front of such high-ranking...Tags: Elections, Illinois Supreme Court, Colleges and Universities, Judges, Cook County Government
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