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More dog parks means greater need for dog training
Kevin Tan and his wife, Felecia, knew Jersey, their 2-year-old mixed breed dog, had a problem getting along with other canines at a dog park in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. "Jersey would get hold of a ball and lash other dogs that tried to take...
Tags: Hyde Park, Chicago Loop, Trust for Public Land
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The tale of 'Elevate Chicago' and foreclosure blight in the neighborhoods
Thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-three. That's the number of properties in Chicago listed last week in some stage of mortgage foreclosure. This is a disaster. This is a crisis. And though you wouldn't know it from the amount of news coverage...
Tags: Chicago Loop, Humboldt Park, Navy Pier, Rahm Emanuel, McCormick Place
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Barrington car show moving to Chicago in 2014
The Barrington Concours d'Elegance, an annual showcase of collectible cars and motorcycles, will move to downtown Chicago in 2014 and be renamed the Chicago Concours, its new management told the Tribune. The new owners are David Cooper, founder of...
Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Services and Shopping, Concours d'Elegance, Vehicles, Chicago Park District
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Greening up the West Loop
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds Chicago architect Scott Sarver of the firm smdp has a plan to spruce up the West Loop. Among his many ideas detailed recently in The Architect's Newspaper, he wants to cover the trench of the Kennedy Expressway...... -
Chicago center brings meditative mindset to combating youth violence
Most of the CeaseFire interrupters sat up in their chairs and closed their eyes, following the quiet direction of the small man in yellow and orange robes at the head of the conference table. "Allow your mind to feel the way you feel," Sakyong Mipham...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, University of Chicago, Buddhism, Religion and Belief, Rahm Emanuel
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St. James Church gathers its faithful
An unforgiving icy wind blew across the three dozen — young and old, black and white, rich and poor — gathered on Palm Sunday in front of the ancient and shuttered St. James Catholic Church in Bronzeville. It was a cold morning for the...
Tags: Chicago Loop, Francis I, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Architecture
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Other visions of home at Elmhurst Art Museum
The lobby of the Elmhurst Art Museum is full with a dozen or so miniature wooden houses, perfect for dolls or birds with a taste for culture. The domestic sculptures are the work of the late Don Baum, who sometimes constructed them from mahjongg tiles,...
Tags: IKEA, Boris (music group), The Salvation Army, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Politics
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Chicago French Market finds
The Chicago French Market, steps from the West Loop's Ogilvie Transportation Center, is what Cheap Eater Kevin Pang calls "the closest thing Chicago has to a food truck pod."
See photo gallery for a visual tour of smoked pastrami, Japanese-imported...Tags: Ketchup, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Beef Stroganoff, Potato Chips
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Redmoon Theater headed to Pilsen
Redmoon Theater, the 23-year-old Chicago performance, spectacle and party-creation company, said Thursday that it is vacating its longtime “Redmoon Central” headquarters in the West Loop and heading to Pilsen. The new (and more affordable)...Tags: Chicago Loop, Arts and Culture, Pilsen
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A look back at 2012 in Downers Grove
There was no shortage of news in southeastern DuPage County in 2012. Here is a recap, in no particular order, of some of the stories that made headlines during the year. New fee on property owners After several years in the making, officials...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Heroin, Illinois Department of Transportation, Science and Technology, Naturalization
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Best in chow
What you hold in your hands is our favorite issue of the year. We get to revisit our sauce-stained notebooks and offer raised glasses to the restaurants and chefs we felt best defined Chicago's dining scene these past 12 months.
This marks our third...Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Sixteen, Lifestyle and Leisure, Acadia, Dining and Drinking
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Apatow, Mann balance laughs, drama, fiction and family in '40'
LOS ANGELES — On a late February morning in the editing suite of Judd Apatow's multi-level West Los Angeles headquarters, the writer-director and editor Brent White were playing back scenes from Apatow's new comedy, “This Is 40.”...
Tags: Drama (genre), Seth Rogen, Hemorrhoids, Apple iPad, Chicago Loop
May 22, 2013
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Mar 6, 2013
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Dec 6, 2012
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Feb 14, 2013
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Dec 23, 2012
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Jan 17, 2013
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Dec 7, 2012
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