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Chicago Jazz Festival moving to Millennium Park
After more than three decades at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park, the Chicago Jazz Festival will be leaving the venue for Millennium Park, according to the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). Though in recent...
Tags: Chicago Loop, Entertainment, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Cloud Gate, Entertainment Events
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New extension agent joins staff at Boyle County office
smojica@amnews.comThe Boyle County Extension Office recently welcomed a new extension agent to its team. Alethea Price, 23, a December graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, started as a family and consumer sciences agent on Jan. 18. Price earned a bachelor’s...Tags: Food Network (tv network), Conservation, Environmental Issues, Nutrition
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Luxury buyers find options at Millennium
Luxury real estate in downtown Chicago came roaring back in 2012, experiencing its best year since 2008. According to a recent report, sales of million-dollar homes rose by 15 percent last year, and while the rebound has been welcome news to sellers, it...
Tags: Magnificent Mile, Chicago Skyline, Real Estate Buyers, Chicago Restaurants, Michigan Avenue
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Chicago Confidential: City makes headway in Bloomingdale Trail project
The city of Chicago last week bought the 2.7-mile-long elevated Canadian Pacific Railway spur known as the Bloomingdale Trail. The sales price was $1, not including administrative fees. By the time the spur's makeover into a bike and running path is...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, Manhattan (New York City), Wrigley Field, Chicago City Hall
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A preview of the top Chicago parties in 2013
The best parties in Chicago don’t all take place in the summer — just most of them. But if you’re getting early stages of cabin fever and don’t feel like you can spend another weekend in your sweatpants, there is the...
Tags: Macy Gray, Restaurants, Entertainment, David Arquette, Sports
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Buddha heads designed to get people thinking
For RedEyeHalf-submerged Buddha head sculptures started popping up in five Chicago neighborhoods in the fall, and in 2013, the next phrase of the public art installation is set to turn even more communities on its head. Ten Thousand Ripples—a...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Pilsen, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Michigan Avenue, Gresham
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Ready, reserved
I have this problem. I made more New Year's Eve reservations than I can use. More than 100 of them, actually. Which is why, for the 12th straight year (and the 17th time in the past 19 years), I'll be giving them away to nimble-fingered readers who ask....
Tags: Entertainment, Bistronomic, Entertainment Events, Lifestyle and Leisure, Henri
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Jazz roaring ahead for the New Year
The New Year has just begun, but the jazz scene never settles down. Among the weekend's highlights: Rob Mazurek: The enterprising Chicago cornetist has produced remarkable work with his aptly named Exploding Star Orchestra, which conjures a...
Tags: Ramsey Lewis, Entertainment, Hyde Park, Howard Reich, Concerts
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Bassist Matt Ulery's 'By a Little Light' breakthrough album is triumph of '12
What a year this has been for Chicago bassist-composer Matt Ulery. His breakthrough album, "By a Little Light" (Greenleaf Music), has been turning up on best-of-year lists, including NPR's and the Chicago Tribune's. He has taken this hauntingly...
Tags: Vocal Music (genre), Entertainment, Chicago Tribune, NPR, Concerts
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Jazz resolutions for a New Year
A new year brings new hopes for music in Chicago. Here are key resolutions for 2013: Create a concise Cultural Plan. After months of town hall meetings, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events last fall came up with a 48-page wish...
Tags: Entertainment, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Hyde Park, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Ravinia Festival
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Glorious sounds soar above season of economic gloom
No musical news story in 2012 drew greater media attention, inside and outside Chicago, than the strike that silenced the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 48 hours in late September. The cliffhanger was resolved just in time for the CSO to fulfill a...
Tags: Frankfort, Entertainment, James Conlon, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Chorus
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A procrastinator's guide to making the holidays count
The holidays always seem to come too soon and leave too early. One minute you're wailing that the stores are playing "Jingle Bell Rock" at Halloween, the next you're whimpering that it's Jan. 2 and you never really felt the holiday spirit. By "you," I...
Tags: Holidays, Cloud Gate, Religious Festivals, Brookfield Zoo, Halloween
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