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Aftermath of an insanity verdict
Shackled to a hospital bed with a self-inflicted neck wound, Marci Webber described to the police visions of demons and skeletons, but wasn't sure what had happened to her 4-year-old daughter. As the officers — shaken by the crime scene in her...
Tags: Symptoms, Defendants, Health and Safety at School, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Elgin
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Chicago's Argyle enclave works to find identity
Years ago, Nam Pham, 70, and Paul Tsang, 56, left their Asian homelands and ultimately settled on the same street in Uptown's Argyle enclave. Pham, a Vietnamese national, started a pharmacy on one side of Argyle Street; Tsang, a Chinese national,...
Tags: Near South Side, Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois), Immigration, Boystown (Chicago, Illinois), Business
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Pivot Arts fest rejuvenating Uptown entertainment
Pivot Arts brings a new cultural arts fair to the Uptown neighborhood. The Pivot Multi-Arts Festival includes theater, music and dance performances in an unusual variety of venues. Artists and groups participating include the Back Room Shakespeare...Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?
In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...
Tags: New York City, Dwayne Johnson, Paramount Pictures, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Religion and Belief
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Aragon, Riviera face building code complaints
Two key venues in the city's plan for an Uptown entertainment district are due for consideration in court Wednesday, and their owners could end up paying hefty fines for allegedly violating the city's building code. The city filed complaints earlier...
Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Stingray Touch exhibit opens for summer at Shedd Aquarium
The surprise isn't that the Shedd Aquarium now has an exhibit where visitors can touch stingrays as they glide by, but rather that the most popular aquarium in the U.S. hasn't had one before now. Usually called something like Stingray Bay or Stingray...
Tags: Brookfield Zoo, Shedd Aquarium
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Ambitious Beethoven fest wants listeners to feel the 'love'
Ludwig van Beethoven was forever pushing boundaries, and the annual Chicago festival that bears the composer's name continues to do the same, even more so than in the past. “Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013,” as the third edition is titled,...
Tags: Literature, Music, Artists, Entertainment, Pilsen
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Annoyance Theatre on the move
The Annoyance Theatre, a venerable Chicago comedy theater, is on the move. Jennifer Estlin, the theater's owner and executive producer, said Wednesday that it will exit its Uptown digs on the same block of North Broadway as the Uptown Theatre and move...
Tags: Theater, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Entertainment, Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events
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Police question man in Wrigleyville shooting
Tribune reporterAuthorities are questioning a parolee in connection with a shooting in the Wrigleyville neighborhood over the weekend, police said. No charges have been filed as of Monday afternoon, police said, but authorities are questioning a 26-year-old man who...Tags: Chicago Police Department, Addison, Chicago White Sox, Wrigley Field, Shootings
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Depression-era artwork returning to public display
For 38 years, a 6-foot-by-20-foot mural sat rolled up in a local history teacher's home, an all-but-forgotten remnant of a Depression-era effort to bring art directly to the people. But a four-year community fundraising campaign and a yearlong...
Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Mail Order Industry, Artists, Arts and Culture, Government Postal Delivery
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Harvey Keitel, DePaul University, Will Ferrell, Billy Goat Tavern
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Purim a favorite holiday for kids
Turtles and goldfish. If you are Jewish and of a certain age, these may be among your most vivid memories of the Purim festival: a riot of costumes, noisemaking and carnivals that are part and parcel of the celebration of the inspiring story of how...
Tags: Purim, Animals, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Customs and Tradition, Human Interest
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