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Uptown enjoying an upswing
Special to the Chicago TribuneThere was a time, in its Roaring '20s heyday, when Uptown lived up to its name in more than one way. Yes, it stood higher than the Loop on the Chicago city map, but it also represented a glamorous step up from much of the rest of the Windy City. In his...Tags: Glenn Miller, Annoyance Theatre, Sales, Music, Crime, Law and Justice
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Deporting mother inflames emotions
The lightning-swift deportation of Elvira Arellano triggered an equally sharp debate Monday about whether her dramatic battle to stay in the U.S. will help or hurt attempts to liberalize immigration laws. The undocumented Chicago resident was arrested...Tags: Minority Groups, Dining and Drinking, Crime, Law and Justice, Activism, Police Arrests
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'Soundtrack' is Yuri Lane's hip-hop tour de force
Tribune arts criticYuri Lane is a jaw-dropping talent. Literally. You've never seen more complex — and more rhythmically independent — sounds emerge simultaneously from a single contorted mouth in your life. An announcement wisely is made at the top of Lane's "Soundtrack...Tags: Anna Deavere Smith, Star Wars (movie), Bucktown, John F. Williams, New York
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BET has a fine time in 'Soulful Sixties'
With its new seasonal gig at the plush Black Orchid room inside Piper's Alley, Black Ensemble Theatre finally has a chance to showcase its music for a Chicago audience that might not find its way to the troupe's longtime Uptown home. What took so long?...Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Mahalia Jackson, Frank Sinatra
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Chicago theater scene
Tribune staff reporterIts sheer quantity - at least 200 troupes and counting - is a wonder. So is its growing international reputation. And so is its quality. You could make a decent case that the Goodman Theatre is the leading non-profit American theater in the country; the...Tags: Goodman Theatre, Comedy (genre), Arts, Arts and Culture, Education
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Musician carries his city's torch
Tribune arts criticTo many listeners, the brilliant jazz saxophonist and New Orleans native Donald Harrison embodies the spirit of the city, particularly in this Mardi Gras season. His late father, Donald Harrison Sr., was one of Louisiana's most revered Mardi Gras...Tags: Minority Groups, African Americans, Nebraska, Culture, Music Industry
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Sudan refugee forgives but doesn't forget
Tribune staff reporterThe women who come to Anne's small, windowless office in Uptown often feel fretful about beginning a new life in the U.S. To ease their anxieties, she often tells them this: "I'm from Sudan. I'm a refugee, too. And what you went through may be different,...Tags: Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Refugee, Egypt, Colleges and Universities
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Chicagoan Strautmanis headed to WH, too
The SwampBy Christi Parsons and John McCormick A Chicago native and longtime friend and aide to Barack Obama is being named chief of staff to Valerie Jarrett, the Chicago businesswoman and real-estate developer who will be Assistant to the President for......Tags: Government, Minority Groups, Illinois, Michelle Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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`Mockingbird' message has new resonance
Tribune staff reporterThis is the week that Chicago has set aside to discuss "To Kill a Mockingbird," the book designated last summer as the first work to be read by the entire population of the city (and suburbs) as a shared intellectual exercise. The Harper Lee classic...Tags: South Chicago, Jefferson Park, Documentary (genre), Minority Groups, Dining and Drinking
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New life in U.S. stifled when there are no jobs
Tribune staff reporterAt the age of 7, John Koor outran government soldiers who chased him hundreds of miles through the savanna of Sudan. For most of his adolescence, he lived on less than one meal a day in a refugee camp. But finding employment in a post-Sept. 11 United...Tags: Chicago Chinese Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Kenya, Lion (animal), Chicago Restaurants
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The real deal
Special to the TribuneWhen media mogul Rupert Murdoch bought the Manhattan triplex where Laurance S. Rockefeller once lived, even hard-to-impress New Yorkers let out a collective gasp. The $44 million price tag set a record last fall for residential real estate in the Big...Tags: Cary, Jefferson Park, Teaching and Learning, San Francisco, Great Depression (1929)
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