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Chicagoan raises tens of thousands for charities while biking or walking
Desmond Campbell is a marathon man who has traveled miles and miles — many of them by foot, some of them by bike and quite a few of them while virtually standing still. During the course of his travels, he has helped people in extraordinary ways....
Tags: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Trips and Vacations, Chicago Hotels, Liver Disease, Hotels and Accommodations
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Graphic artist Jenny Beorkrem finds she's a poster child for knockoffs of neighborhood maps
Graphic artist Jenny Beorkrem sat down behind her iMac this week and with a few clicks located the folder titled "KNOCKOFFS." It contained 82 images, all copycats of her ubiquitous neighborhood maps. They're the minimalist ones that only show the...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Google Inc., Sports, Internal Revenue Service, Media Industry
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Bach Week at 40: Festival thrives by keeping the musical mix fresh
One sign that spring has really and truly sprung hereabouts is the annual Bach Week Festival. This year's four-concert celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach's music and related works marks an important milestone: the festival's 40th season. Programs will...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Sports, Music, Steinway Concert Grand Piano
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Running: Higdon, Gunn respond to tragedy
South Bend TribuneShock tainted the way Hal Higdon processed the happenings as he scoured the coverage of Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon. This hit close to home for the 81-year-old resident of Long Beach, near Michigan City. An author and former world-...Tags: Road Running, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism, Sports, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Stand by your brand
I expect that doctors in the delivery room will soon hoist up newborns and proclaim, "Congratulations! It's a brand!" That's the world we live in, folks. We're no longer just people — we're warm-blooded versions of Nike or Budweiser or, in my...
Tags: Advice Columns and Columnists, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Michael Jordan, LinkedIn Corp., Sports
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Preparing to make his way in the business world
South Bend TribuneJordan Gosztola, of Osceola, is a freshman at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is one of eight incoming freshmen to be named as Heller Fellows by the university’s Heller College of Business. The program gives students a chance to discover...Tags: Roosevelt University, Sports, Ryder Cup, Golf, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Chicago Marathon gets 3-time Olympian
You don’t want to train for the long run in a short time. Dathan Ritzenhein knew that in January, when he ran the U.S. Olympic Marathon trials in Houston after two Achilles tendon surgeries in the previous 10 months had kept him from training for...
Tags: Sports, Beijing Games, Trials
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Khannouchi calls it quits, which is nothing new
I got an email Tuesday from Weldon Johnson, editor of the invaluable track & field / running website letsrun.com, alerting me to its exclusive story reporting four-Chicago Marathon winner Khalid Khannouchi has retired from competitive running. The news...
Tags: Road Running, Sports, 2016 Olympic Games, Haile Gebrselassie, Running
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Lochte, Cheruiyot tops in pre-Olympic year
The year before the Olympics is traditionally when athletes emerge into the spotlight that will follow them through the next Summer or Winter Games.
Performances at world championships in the pre-Olympic year reveal new faces or make us more familiar...Tags: FIFA World Cup, Ryan Lochte, Short Course Swimming, Patrick Makau, Soccer
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Running leaders shoot the sport in the foot
Why not have a women's marathon world record category for days with 39 percent humidity?
Or another one for days when the sun shines more than two hours?
Or one for courses with fewer than six turns? More than 11? That run across the 49th parallel?...Tags: Marathon, Track and Field, 2016 Olympic Games, High School Sports, Ben Johnson
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Ryan Hall, top U.S. marathoner, will run Chicago this fall to try new tactics
As he trained next to an Alpine lake in St. Moritz, Switzerland last week, Ryan Hall turned the workout into a simulation of the reason why he will compete in the Oct. 9 Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
Hall ran 45 minutes as if he were in the lead...Tags: Marathon, Career and Workplace, Wages and Pensions, Track and Field, Sports
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Couples fitness makes for a healthy relationship
Some couples take dance lessons to prepare for their wedding day. Others get premarital counseling. But core-strengthening classes gave one couple more than just good wedding photos.
For Julio and Julie Hernandez, fitness is how they keep themselves, and...Tags: Family Vacations, Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Trips and Vacations, Health and Safety at School
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