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Remarkable Woman: Amy Thomas Elder
Amy Thomas Elder lives and breathes education. Has been doing so for most of her 49 years. Her parents were teachers. Dad taught history; mom was a math instructor. Her kindergarten was held in an antique house at Greenfield Village next to the Henry...
Tags: Education, Henry Ford, Music, Charles Thomas, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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Board names new principal for Glenbard West
The Glenbard District 87 Board of Education has named a new principal for Glenbard West High School. Peter Monaghan, who has been the assistant principal for student services at Glenbard West since 2004, will start on July 1. He'll replace Jane Thorsen,...Tags: Roosevelt University, Arts and Culture, Literature, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Nelson Algren Short Story Awards: A look back at a rich history
An honor like the Nelson Algren Short Story Award can be a boon to a writer. It can give him or her the confidence to slog through rejections and trudge forward with literary endeavors. When we asked former Nelson Algren Award recipients what winning...Tags: Southern Illinois University, University of Pittsburgh, Music, NPR, Studs Terkel
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Going to school on video game violence
The students filtered in. They smelled of cigarettes and cold. They dropped their backpacks and peeled off their Gore-Tex. Then Lisa Buscani, one of the five instructors who teaches Ethics in Computer Games and Cinema at DePaul University, after...
Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Movies, Criminals, Teaching and Learning, Religion and Belief
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Remarkable Woman: Kelly Richmond Pope
Most people don't start their day combing the newspaper for headlines about white-collar felons. But for Kelly Richmond Pope, it's just part of the job as a forensic accountant, and one she shares with students at DePaul University, where she is an...
Tags: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Social Sciences, Teaching and Learning, Religion and Belief, Bernard Madoff
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Mark Pearlstein, 1948-2012
Attorney Mark Pearlstein was an expert on community association law, a primary author of recently enacted Illinois legislation to regulate and license community association property managers and for 24 years wrote the Sunday "Condo Adviser" column for the...Tags: Realty, Laws, Lawyers, Brad Pitt, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chicagoan saves one dog at a time from rabies in Africa
NANGALE, Tanzania — Only about half the dogs Anna Czupryna is studying in Tanzania have names. Dogs are different here. They are foragers and night watchmen who are treated more like livestock than pets. But when the dogs of north-central Tanzania...
Tags: Rogers Park, Biology, Disease Prevention, Teaching and Learning, Fashion Shows
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Remarkable Woman: Josephine Lee
Among the joys of the holiday season in these parts are performances by the Chicago Children's Choir. Founded in 1956 with the goal of bringing together children of different races and cultures, the choir has become a local institution. It works with...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Music, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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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: Education, Vocal Music (genre), Music, NPR, Mayne Stage
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Movie makeup: The good, the bad and the 'J. Edgar'
Attention, vampires. Later this week, while you're watching the final installment in the "Twilight" series, if the quality of the new film is consistent with the earlier films, well, you will probably find yourself wondering if it's just you or do all...
Tags: J. Edgar (movie), Sean Penn, Movies, The Elephant Man (movie), Gangster Squad (movie)
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Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons
Special to the TribuneLaura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...Tags: Politics, Teaching and Learning, Geography, Religion and Belief, Values
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CEO of Strategic Thinking Institute grasped value while watching operation
Special to the TribuneA dozen managers sat around a rectangular table at the Wit hotel in the Loop, their attention fixed on a man in an Armani suit standing in the front of the room. They waited quietly, the CTA Red Line train periodically rumbling by, until the tall,...Tags: University of Connecticut, Music, Motorola, Inc., Soccer, Nordstrom
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