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Taste of Chicago considers taking smaller bite of calendar
Taste of Chicago could get shortened by several days next summer as city officials again retool Chicago’s iconic summer party.
The city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events will run the Taste in 2012, after the Chicago Park...Tags: Grant Park, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Restaurants, Rahm Emanuel
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Taste attendance drops to 25-year low
Tribune reportersAbout 2.35 million people visited Taste of Chicago this year, 300,000 fewer than attended the city’s iconic summer fest in 2010, according to a Chicago Park District estimate released today. The crowd was the smallest for the Taste since 1986, when...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Chicago, Navy Pier, Economy, Business and Finance, Billy Goat Tavern
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Ten @ 10: Favorites from Taste of Chicago
![The 2011 edition of <a href="http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/events___special_events/special_events/park_district/Taste_of_Chicago.html">Taste of Chicago</a> is underway in Grant Park now through July 3. With some 59 vendors offering six items each, it would be a challenge for almost anyone to eat all the food that will be available. To help make your choosing easier, the Stew crew offers its Taste food faves.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62809998-27091511-187105.jpg "The 2011 edition of <a href="http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/events___special_events/special_events/park_district/Taste_of_Chicago.html\">Taste of Chicago</a> is underway in Grant Park now through July 3. With some 59 vendors offering six items each, it would be a challenge for almost anyone to eat all the food that will be available. To help make your choosing easier, the Stew crew offers its Taste food faves.")
The 2011 edition of Taste of Chicago is underway in Grant Park now through July 3. With some 59 vendors offering six items each, it would be a challenge for almost anyone to eat all the food that will be available. To help make your choosing easier, the...Tags: Grant Park, Ice Cream, Restaurants, Chicago Chinese Restaurants, Foods and Beverages
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Emanuel picks Chicago Park District superintendent
Tribune reporterMayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to keep in place the person he picked this summer to temporarily lead the Chicago Park District. Michael Kelly will lose the “interim” tag and become park district superintendent, the administration announced...Tags: Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Park District
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No brown M&Ms? Taste performers' contracts reveal perks
Tribune reporterTaste of Chicago’s musical line-up may not have had as many arena-filling stars this summer as in years past, but the performers still flexed their rock star prerogatives in spelling out the food, beverages and other amenities they would get...Tags: Natalie MacMaster, Van Halen (music group), Vehicles, Loretta Lynn, The Jayhawks (music group)
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Chicago business preparing food outdoors, against the rules
Tribune staff reporterIn a backyard, a woman grabbed one of the hundreds of eggs sitting in the sweltering heat and cracked it into a vat of brown batter. As she plunged her hands in to mix it, a woman walked to a plastic container filled with water from a hose and cleaned out...Tags: Wrigleyville, Homes, Punishment, Arts and Culture, Central Park
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Food vendor passes follow-up inspection
After the Tribune reported that a business that serves food at street festivals was preparing food outdoors in the summer heat, the city of Chicago conducted a health inspection of the Logan Square vendor and discovered a series of violations, including...Tags: Wrigleyville, Punishment, Arts and Culture, Companies and Corporations, Central Park
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Park District Supt. Tim Mitchell to step down
Chicago Park District Superintendent Timothy Mitchell is leaving in the latest leadership change in city government since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office. The Park District is running the Taste of Chicago this year, and Mitchell is stepping down just as...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Park District
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WATCH: Taste Of Chicago....In A Tux
![The 2011 Taste of Chicago kicked off last Friday. More and more reports were commenting on the <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/6152403-418/taste-of-chicago-opens-in-grant-park.html">"refined" nature of the lower-budgeted food festival</a>. Gone are many of the musical performances, remaining were the signature culinary booths with a few new additions.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/250986840-29151814.jpg "The 2011 Taste of Chicago kicked off last Friday. More and more reports were commenting on the <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/6152403-418/taste-of-chicago-opens-in-grant-park.html\">\"refined\" nature of the lower-budgeted food festival</a>. Gone are many of the musical performances, remaining were the signature culinary booths with a few new additions.")
WGN Feature ReporterThe 2011 Taste of Chicago kicked off last Friday. More and more reports were commenting on the "refined" nature of the lower-budgeted food festival. Gone are many of the musical performances, remaining were the signature culinary booths with a few new... -
Top weekend shows: Loretta Lynn, American Music Festival
Tribune criticLoretta Lynn: The 79-year-old country icon has never gone out of style with her no-guff attitude and classic songs such as “Fist City,” “Rated X” and “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” 5 p.m. Friday with Court Yard Hounds...Tags: Dave Alvin, Grant Park, American Music Festival, Loretta Lynn, Preservation Hall Jazz Band (music group)
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Holiday brings CTA service changes
RedEyeThe Guardian Angels, the volunteer CTA patrol group, today began its round-the-clock patrols of the system. The Angels started patrolling the Blue and Red Lines at 5 a.m., and will continue manning the system until Monday at 10 p.m., chapter leader...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Loop, Navy Pier
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Less travel this 4th of July holiday
WGN NewsMore and more people have decided to stay close to home for this extended 4th of July weekend... and gas prices are to blame. People are cutting costs by cutting traveling as the city cuts costs by cutting the fireworks. AAA reports that traveling by...Tags: AAA, Navy Pier, Holidays, WGN, Travel
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