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Carrie Hightman is not afraid to take chances
Huddling with business and community leaders last month to recommend legal and financial advisers for development of Gary/Chicago International Airport, Carrie Hightman smiled as Adela Cepeda, an acquaintance from Chicago business circles, pitched her...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Science and Technology, Florida State University, Restaurants, Gold Coast
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Museums
Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org America's first planetarium has one of the world's greatest collections of antique astronomical instruments. One of those is the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft flown by...Tags: Youth Organizations, Field Museum of Natural History, China, Shedd Aquarium, L (movie)
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Racism, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Kanye West, Nelson Algren, Emmett Till
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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Field Museum of Natural History, Financial Markets, Michigan Avenue, Money and Monetary Policy, Renovation
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Field Museum of Natural History, Media Industry, Science and Technology, Politics, Consultancy Service
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A priest's faith in church resurrected
One day last September, the Rev. Frank Latzko, pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, decided to take a walk and rediscover why he became a priest. His feet carried him from the Lincoln Park neighborhood to France, across the...
Tags: Ulcerative Colitis, Religion and Belief, Spain, Italy, Colleges and Universities
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50 years of Chicago's WVON: A Chicago voice that echoes nationwide
In the volatile world of radio, almost nothing lasts half a century. But a great Chicago radio station — WVON-AM 1690 — has managed the feat: The institution marks its 50th anniversary Monday and celebrates with a concert featuring Toni...
Tags: Media Industry, Chess Playing, Chicago Elections, Television Stations, Macy's
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'Mr. Selfridge': The man who invented retail therapy
Until recently, the Vera Wang bridal shop in Singapore imposed a non-refundable $482 fee to try on dresses. And last month a health food retailer in Australia posted this notice on its door: “As of the first of February, this store will be...
Tags: Television, Lana Wachowski, England, Jeremy Piven, Ike Barinholtz
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Jeremy Piven returns to TV in British period piece “Mr. Selfridge”
Channel Guide MagazineDownton Abbey may be over for the season, but American fans of British dramas will have another luscious new period piece to enjoy this midseason with Mr. Selfridge, and they might be surprised (and pleasantly so) to see who is headlining it. Mr.... -
Roseanne: Finally back where she belongs, on a weekly sitcom?
Liz Smith"THE THING WOMEN have yet to understand is nobody gives you power. You just take it," said Roseanne Barr as she climbed the heights in Hollywood, taking power, and not apologizing. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT Rosanne Barr's return to network TV in a...Tags: Entertainment, Television, John Goodman, Music, NBC (tv network)
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Ideas flow on beefing up Oak Park Avenue
Oak Park Avenue was a typical main street in a small town when Mayor Ed Zabrocki and his family moved to Tinley Park in 1970. The businesses "were 'mom & pop' kind of things," Zabrocki said, recalling three dress shops, two hardware stores and a "dime"...Tags: Business, Holidays, State Farm Insurance, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Mike Clark
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Reliving Christmas past
PARADISE, Pa. — On the day after Thanksgiving, the day on which millions of Americans turned their attention to shopping for bargains, a large family from Virginia decided to kick off the holiday season in a different way, with a trip back to an...
Tags: Target, Travel, Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), Santa Claus (fictional character), Highway Transportation
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