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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: Shedd Aquarium, Brookfield Zoo
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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: Artists, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Pilsen, Music Industry
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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: Paramount Pictures, Judaism, Arts and Culture, ABC (tv network), New York City
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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: Annoyance Theatre, Entertainment, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater
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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: Addison, Wrigley Field, Wrigleyville, Chicago Police Department, Shootings
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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: DePaul University, David Duchovny, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Hope Davis, Chicago Tribune
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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: Artists, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Arts, Arts and Culture, Mail Order Industry
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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: Religion and Belief, Judaism, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Arts and Culture, Purim
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Meet the commenters: 'AReader'
Change of SubjectPart of an occasional series Commenter ID: AReader Real name: Andrew Gender: Male Age: 36 Occupation: IP attorney, assuming I pass the Bar this summer. Former writer and sociology Ph.D. student. Family info: Never married (yet), but very much in...... -
Tribune archive: The Daniel Taylor case
Change of SubjectHere is an archive, in reverse chronological order, of the Tribune's coverage of the Daniel Taylor case: News story: Criminal justice: Jail alibi doesn't outweigh confession -- Records show Daniel Taylor in jail when double murder occurred, but... -
Big ideas for small spaces
Special to the TribuneWhile she completed her residency in emergency medicine, Sarah Ahmed lived in a spacious two-bedroom, two-bath town home in Quincy, Ill. When she accepted her first job as a physician, in Aurora, she moved to a smaller Woodridge rental. Then she had...Tags: Personal Service, Lifestyle and Leisure, Real Estate, Realty, Condos
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