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    Jun 13, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. What to see in Chicago

    Overhead trains, river-touring boats, legendary dinosaurs and American Girls: Chicago's best attractions appeal to all ages. And though it's a big city, Chicago extends a warm Midwestern welcome to visitors while keeping it real with an ample dose of thrift. Here are a few ideas for sightseeing in Chicago.
    Overhead trains, river-touring boats, legendary dinosaurs and American Girls: Chicago's best attractions appeal to all ages. And though it's a big city, Chicago extends a warm Midwestern welcome to visitors while keeping it real with an ample dose of...

    Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Buckingham Fountain, Navy Pier, Travel

    2. Jun 13, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Bird-watchers fear the worst as Park District removes trees near Wooded Island

    The birders made a plea last month when they saw two trees marked for destruction just outside the bird haven in Jackson Park.
    The birders made a plea last month when they saw two trees marked for destruction just outside the bird haven in Jackson Park. Wait a few more weeks, they asked, until the height of migration season is over. Although the trees aren't in the bird...

    Tags: Chicago Park District, Japan, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jackson Park, Arts and Culture

    3. May 29, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Paul Natkin: Through the lens of rock 'n' roll

    Every picture tells a story. In Paul Natkin's world, sometimes multiple stories.
    Every picture tells a story. In Paul Natkin's world, sometimes multiple stories. Take, for example, his portrait of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards. It's all there: the smirk, the skull ring, the cigarette butt in his right hand. And, yeah, he's...

    Tags: Photography, Music, Museums, Walter Payton, Rolling Stone

    4. May 29, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Local Voices, May. 29

    Childhood obesity This letter is in response to "In schools, BMI a weighty issue; Some parents say body fat measure hurts self-esteem, poses other risks" (Page 1, May 17). The article raises some great questions as to how we can best contend with the...

    Tags: Pat Quinn, Illinois General Assembly, Julie Deardorff, Genetic Engineering, Government

    5. May 24, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Gerard Pawlicki, 1921-2013

    Gerard Pawlicki was just out of DePaul University when he joined Enrico Fermi, Walter Zinn, George Weil and other seasoned scientists as they lifted their paper cups filled with Chianti wine, celebrating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under...

    Tags: University of Chicago, Manhattan (New York City), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory, Merchandise Mart

    6. May 1, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Rosenthal: Rejuvenation of South Side the fair thing to do

    President Grover Cleveland pressed an electric switch, powering the pumps for massive fountains. The jets of water in turn cued the unfurling of flags. What was described as "profound silence" gave way to a cacophony, and the World's Columbian Exposition officially opened a few minutes past noon on May 1, 1893.
    President Grover Cleveland pressed an electric switch, powering the pumps for massive fountains. The jets of water in turn cued the unfurling of flags. What was described as "profound silence" gave way to a cacophony, and the World's Columbian...

    Tags: Architecture, McCormick Place, Midway, Walmart, DuSable Museum of African-American History

    7. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Breakfast standards and so much more

    For Spiros Argiris and Gus Sellis, the story of their lives is written on the walls.
    For Spiros Argiris and Gus Sellis, the story of their lives is written on the walls. Argiris points around the room at the Valois Cafeteria's murals: the Museum of Science and Industry, Hyde Park Bank, the South Side lakeshore. Then he points to the...

    Tags: Fried Potatoes, Foods and Beverages, Steak and Eggs, Steaks, Barack Obama

    8. Apr 12, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise

    "The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream" has an elegant, unflinching, non-nostalgic clarity about Chicago that you rarely see in books about Chicago.
    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: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, New York City, Fine Artists, Columbia University, Architecture

    9. Mar 27, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  9. Brace yourself for the invasion of the giant mosquitoes

    We've got it all here in Florida, and this isn't even a horror flick — car-eating sinkholes, monster storms, pythons in the wild, sharks in the water, alligators in back yards and pit bulls in trailers.
    We've got it all here in Florida, and this isn't even a horror flick — car-eating sinkholes, monster storms, pythons in the wild, sharks in the water, alligators in back yards and pit bulls in trailers. Now, Mother Nature is about to whack us with...

    Tags: Halloween, Father's Day, Tampa, Mother's Day, Holidays

    10. Mar 14, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Opera in Focus: Puppets and opera come together

    It's the damnedest thing:
    It's the damnedest thing: Justin Snyder, his long hair parted down the middle, his head thrown back as though communing with a higher power, the hood of his hoodie grazing the floor, his mouth working silently in time with the strains and surges of an...

    Tags: Restaurants, Music, Groundhog Day (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Services and Shopping

    11. Mar 13, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. 'Animal Inside Out' is Body Worlds' take on beasts and birds

    The last time the Body Worlds people displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry, in a 2011 exhibition showing the development and decline of the human corpus, they included, with seeming incongruity, an ostrich.
    The last time the Body Worlds people displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry, in a 2011 exhibition showing the development and decline of the human corpus, they included, with seeming incongruity, an ostrich. The flightless — and, in...

    Tags: The Godfather (movie), Conservation, Wildlife, Environmental Issues, Museums

    12. Mar 13, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. 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 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: Corporate Officers, Interior Policy, Economy, Business and Finance, Culture, Career and Workplace

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