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Jay-Z's $20K purchase raises local artist's profile
Hebru Brantley's trip to Miami Beach for the high-profile Art Basel art show was winding down when the Chicago-based street artist and De La Salle Institute alum was told there was one more potential customer who wanted to meet him right before his flight...
Tags: New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers, Lupe Fiasco, Chicago White Sox, Gold Coast
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Schaumburg convention center benefits as business picks up
Special to the TribuneThe Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center exceeded its 2012 revenue projections by $1.8 million, said officials, who expect additional growth of about 10 percent in 2013 because corporate business is picking up. Forty-three conventions are...Tags: Woodfield Mall, O'Hare International Airport, Business, Entertainment, Baseball
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City dropping red-light camera firm as probe heats up
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today he will axe the city’s embattled red-light camera vendor when its contract expires in July, citing new investigative findings that the company gave thousands of dollars in free trips to the former city official who...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Career and Workplace, Chicago City Hall, Michael Madigan, Austin (Chicago, Illinois)
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Emanuel cuts cord with besieged red-light camera firm
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration dumped the city's longtime red-light camera vendor Friday following a Tribune report about new allegations that the company gave lavish sporting trips to a former city official and then lied about it to City Hall. The...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Chicago City Hall, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Ex-Lake Forest superintendent's fringe benefits questioned
In his job overseeing two small school districts in affluent Lake Forest, Harry Griffith was among the highest paid public school administrators in the state, bringing in $362,000 last academic year alone. And on top of his regular earnings, Griffith...
Tags: Teachers, China, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Wintrust Financial Corporation
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Judge halts O'Hare convention center project
A project to build a convention center near O'Hare International Airport has been temporarily stopped by a federal judge after a government lawsuit accused the developer of trying to bilk Chinese investors out of millions of dollars. Anshoo Sethi's...
Tags: Executive Branch, Immigration, China, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Fall Out Boy reuniting, despite past denials
Less than 48 hours after Pete Wentz denied that Fall Out Boy was reuniting and told the Tribune "don't hold your breath that it's happening," the Chicago-area quartet’s website revealed Monday that the band has a new album and tour on the way....
Tags: Titanic (movie, 1997), Black Cards (music group), Billy Zane, Chicago Blackhawks, Miami Heat
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Rare treats
Rodrick Markus reached for the top shelf of a metal cabinet at the back of his office. "I know, I know, I know," he said to himself. His fingers worked across a row of jars and stopped at a tall glass cylinder. I had asked him about rare ingredients. Rare...
Tags: L2O, Verrier, Naha, Sixteen, Chicago Restaurants
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Zigzagging along the Chicago Cultural Mile
At first glance, the Chicago Cultural Mile ("Where Culture & Commerce Meet") resembles nothing so much as a gerrymandered congressional district. According to its website, this officially arty and mercantile stretch begins at Michigan Avenue and the...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Cheap Trick (music group), Arts, Heavy Engineering, Museums
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Phil Vettel recommends
A roundup of restaurants reviewed in 2012 by critic Phil Vettel.
Acadia ✭✭✭ 1639 S. Wabash Ave., 312-360-9500. Ryan McCaskey's gamble to place a luxury restaurant in the South Loop is, so far, paying off. People are crowding into...Tags: NoMI, Travel, Chicago Restaurants, Human Interest, Slurping Turtle
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Lawsuit filed by doctor stabbed after Mag Mile lights festival
Tribune reporterAn Oak Brook doctor who was stabbed in the neck and face during an attempted holdup at a Gold Coast restaurant in November is suing his alleged attacker along with the restaurant and hotel that houses it. Mir Shah says he was violently attacked and...Tags: Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, Crime, Law and Justice, Gold Coast, Trials, Justice System
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Sighting: Star-filled New Year's Eve -- and week ahead
Where did the famous and semi-famous spend New Year's Eve in the Chicago area? NASCAR driver Danica Patrick dined New Year's Eve at the newly opened Baume & Brix in the River North neighborhood before heading nearby to The Grid. "Cooler Than Me"...
Tags: Christianity, Larsa Pippen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Toby Keith, The Book of Mormon (musical)
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