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'Hold Fast' by Blue Balliett
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Those words from "Dreams," a Langston Hughes poem, infuse Blue Balliett's newest novel. At the start of the book, Balliett notes that by the end of the 2012...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Langston Hughes, Harold Washington Library Center, Literature
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CDOT tries coordination to ease road work headaches
Resurfacing a street or replacing a cracked sidewalk, then digging up the work a short time later to install new utility lines followed by making the paving repairs again — and perhaps even a third time — is a time-honored Chicago tradition....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago City Hall, Energy Resources, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago White Sox
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Jeff Lemire, super writer
On page 12 of issue No. 1 of DC Comics' latest reiteration of "Constantine," which tells the ongoing story of John Constantine — a.k.a. Hellblazer, the publisher's three-decade-old, morally slippery sorcerer/sleuth to the occult world (played by...
Tags: Fiction, Air and Space Accidents, Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Book
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Rosenthal: Roger Ebert wrote a business script worth following
We all knew Roger Ebert. Even those who knew Roger only through his words and insights felt a bond. That was one of Ebert's many gifts, and with his death leaving such a profound void, it is easy to overlook all that we still have from him. Beyond the...
Tags: Journalism, Reviews, Roger Ebert, Death, Richard Roeper
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Commencement speakers: the rude, the unfunny and the insightful
Commencement season is the college equivalent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day. And the match-ups...
Tags: Mary Schmich, Teaching and Learning, Politics, Lindsay Lohan, Alice Cooper
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Best milk for cheesemaking
Q: Since milk and cream are ultra-pasteurized I am having a hard time making ricotta and Greek cheese. Do you have any suggestions or do you know where I can purchase pasteurized (not ultra) milk or cream? I know raw milk is not sold in the U.S. I hope...
Tags: Consumers, Bloomington, Food and Drug Administration, Farms, Bill Daley
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Vanilla 101
Q: Can you please tell me the difference between powdered vanilla and liquid vanilla. Is one stronger? Can you only use the powdered for cooking? I ruined a "no cook" icing recipe using the powdered form and have been afraid to use it ever since. Also are...
Tags: Recipes, Waukegan, Frosting and Icing, Madagascar, Mexico
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Railroad police on high alert as Sept. 11 anniversary approaches
Railroad police are on high alert for suicide bombers at Union Station in Chicago as the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks approaches this week, authorities said.
Based on intelligence that al-Qaida might attempt to strike again in the U.S.,...Tags: O'Hare International Airport, Transportation Security Administration, Jon Hilkevitch, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda
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Cooper Rollow 'a reporter at heart'
The letter arrived in July of 1974. My writing clips had been reviewed, my references approved and interview completed. I was hired by the Chicago Tribune, even though the signature at the end of the letter sounded more like one of those fictitious...
Tags: Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Chicago Cubs, Peyton Manning, Chicago Bears
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Sting added to Printer's Row Lit Fest
Having introduced the world to such colorful characters as a prostitute named Roxanne and a stalker who monitors “Every Breath You Take,” Sting will help launch a new Chicago-based storytelling initiative when he appears at the Chicago...
Tags: United Nations, Harold Washington Library Center, Music, Entertainment, Awards and Prizes
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Don't be fooled. CTA changes take effect
Spring is in the air, and starting Monday so are service changes affecting some CTA bus routes and the Blue Line. There is some good and some bad, from the viewpoint of riders who will either gain or lose service. From the perspective of CTA service...
Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Metra, Chicago Transit Authority, Michigan Avenue
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Does a low-fat diet increase triglycerides?
It’s easy to assume that a low-fat diet is the healthy way to go, especially since a diet low in saturated and trans fat was recommended by government agencies back in the 1980s. But in Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune story, which looked at the...
Tags: Internists, Heart Disease, Nutrition, Cardiologists, Low Fat Diet
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