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Children can step back in time at Pry House event
Special to The Herald-MailChildren who have a love for history, fashion, adventure, competition or who simply enjoy learning new things, might find their niche at Children's Experience Weekend. The Pry Field Hospital at Antietam National Battlefield is hosting the two-day event...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, Museums, Hospitals and Clinics, Wars and Interventions
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The Bean featured as cover photo on Bing search engine
The Bean just got Binged. People doing online searches Tuesday via Bing were being treated to a full-screen image of Cloud Gate, the official name of the sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, as it reflects some of the city's skyscrapers. A "Like"...
Tags: Millennium Park, O'Hare International Airport, Online Media Industry, Cloud Gate, Microsoft Corporation
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The Bean featured as cover photo on Bing search engine
Tribune reporterThe Bean just got binged. People doing online searches Tuesday via Bing were being treated to a full-screen image of Cloud Gate, the official name of the glassy sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park as it reflects some of the city's skyscrapers. A...Tags: Millennium Park, O'Hare International Airport, Online Media Industry, Cloud Gate, Arts
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How Chicago can help migrating flocks survive
If you're out and about in downtown Chicago in the wee hours, you may see small groups of people nosing around the bases of skyscrapers, looking intently at the sidewalks — and picking up things. Those "things," in this case, are birds. Every...
Tags: Politics, Tribune Tower, Lobbying
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Anti-war demonstrators at Boeing annual meeting protest drones
Tribune reporterAbout a dozen anti-war activists protested Boeing's annual meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History on Monday, arguing against the world's largest plane maker's production of drones and its financial support by the city of Chicago. While most...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Military Equipment, Boeing Co., Protest
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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: Elmo, Buzz Aldrin, Boy Scouts of America, L (movie), Marshall Field
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Boeing CEO says 787 grounding didn't have big financial impact
Tribune reporterJust days after Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was officially cleared to fly by U.S. regulators, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said the plane's 100-day grounding did not and will not have a significant financial impact on the Chicago-based aircraft maker. McNerney,...Tags: Japan, Manufacturing and Engineering, Aerospace Manufacturing, Air Transportation Industry, Boeing Co.
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Field has mulled selling artifacts
When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Politics, Political Fundraising, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Princeton University
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Literary Saloon: The days of cable cars gone by
Greg Borzo believes, and rightly so, that much of our city's history "hides in plain sight." There is, for instance, the small building in the accompanying photo, Borzo standing near it. Sitting prominently at 5529 S. Lake Park Ave. in Hyde Park,...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Grinnell College, Blue Island, Hyde Park, Daniel Burnham
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On view at the Field: Rock stars from outer space
Tribune reporterIt is scientifically inaccurate to call a meteorite a "superstar." But, at least in the celebrity-culture sense of the word, that is a fair description for the dozens of space rock fragments laid out in an upstairs room at the Field Museum on Tuesday....Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Museums, Arts and Culture, eBay Inc.
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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: Colleges and Universities, Political Fundraising, Politics, Marshall Field, Economy, Business and Finance
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Ocean wonders abound in Field Museum's 'Creatures of Light'
It's dark in the rooms that hold the new exhibition at the Field Museum, dark almost like in the deep ocean where many of the featured "Creatures of Light" live. It's dim enough to get you wondering if you, too, after enough time in an environment...
Tags: Museum of Natural History, Science and Technology, Fishing, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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