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Night Out in the Parks: Chicago announces summer activities
Tribune reporterCircus performers and Shakespearean actors helped Mayor Rahm Emanuel announce Tuesday that the city is doubling the number of performances and cultural events at its parks this summer. Amid lush greenery and newly bloomed flowers at Garfield Park...Tags: Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago Mayor, Travel, Rogers Park, NATO Summit
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FACTBOX-U.S. coal-fired power plants scheduled to shut
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - U.S. power companies plan to shut or convert over 50,000 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired plants over the next several years as cheap natural gas prices and strict environmental rules have made coal the more expensive option in some areas....Tags: Coal, Riverside (Southampton, New York), Allete Inc., Nisource Incorporated, Lansing
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Police release sketch of man in sex assault near Edgewater bus stop
Chicago police have released a sketch of a man in connection with the sexual assault of a woman near an Edgewater bus stop. The attack occurred around 2 p.m. Thursday when a 22-year-old woman was approached by a man as she sat at the bus stop in the...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Abusive Behavior
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Chicago overnight report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • Police are investigating after a man reportedly forced a woman from an Edgewater bus stop last week and sexually assaulted her. Read more • The Cook County medical examiner's...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Shootings
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Chicago Crime Overnight Report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A briefcase left at the Thorndale CTA stop prompted police to stop Red Line traffic in both directions until 4:45 a.m. Someone had left the briefcase at the Red Line stop at 1100 W....Tags: Chicago Police Department, Irving Park, Chicago Transit Authority, Avondale, Shootings
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Suspicious package closes Red Line for hours Friday morning
A briefcase left at the Thorndale CTA stop prompted police to stop Red Line traffic in both directions until 4:45 a.m. Someone had left the briefcase at the Red Line stop at 1100 W. Thorndale Avenue in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood. A person...
Tags: Chicago Police Department, Chicago Transit Authority
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CSO's Citizen Musician seeks right note
A little more than two years ago, the curtain lifted on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-led Citizen Musician initiative, and CSO Association President Deborah Rutter told an overflow crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center: “All of you are citizen...
Tags: Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Cultural Center, Woodlawn (Chicago, Illinois), Hospitals and Clinics, Music
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Part 1: History, grown locally
Legendary Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill famously coined the phrase "All politics is local," but for dedicated staff and volunteers at historical societies across the city and suburbs, so is all history. They are the ones who keep the flame of the...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Calvin Coolidge, Bars and Clubs, Arts and Culture, Metra
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Anthony Hopkins, Billy Goat Tavern, Rockefeller Chapel, Emma Thompson
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Purim a favorite holiday for kids
Turtles and goldfish. If you are Jewish and of a certain age, these may be among your most vivid memories of the Purim festival: a riot of costumes, noisemaking and carnivals that are part and parcel of the celebration of the inspiring story of how...
Tags: Judaism, Purim, Customs and Tradition, Animals, Festive Events
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Problem Solver: 1 infraction, 2 tickets, 2 rulings
It was late in the evening of Nov. 30 when Michael Plantz realized his license plates were set to expire the next morning. Hoping to ward off a ticket, the Edgewater neighborhood resident logged on to the Illinois secretary of state website and...
Tags: Punishment, Judges, Fines, Justice System, Jon Yates
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St. Gregory High School on Far North Side closing
St. Gregory the Great High School in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood is closing at the end of the school year, the school has announced on its Website. St. Gregory, 1677 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., was the Archdiocese of Chicago's first co-ed high school....
Tags: High Schools, Manufacturing and Engineering, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Religion and Belief, Heavy Engineering
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