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NATO summit cost Metra $800,000 in lost revenue and security costs
TribLocal - Tinley Park » NewsThe NATO summit at McCormick Place cost Metra $800,000 in lost revenue from customers who stayed away and extra security expenses like bomb-sniffing dogs, the …... -
Loyola Academy alum Aylin Bayramoglu has 'Glee'-ful hopes for her career
The list of reality shows Aylin Bayramoglu has auditioned for unsuccessfully is a long one: “American Idol,” “The X Factor,” “American Juniors,” “America's Got Talent,” “The Sing-Off” and “...
Tags: Ryan Murphy, American Idol (tv program), Glee (tv program), Roosevelt University, America's Got Talent (tv program)
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Election night plans are a question mark for many Obama supporters
While President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is planning a private party in McCormick Place for supporters on election night, plans for a smattering of open gatherings are beginning to emerge in the final days of the presidential race. An...
Tags: Loyola University Chicago, Democratic Party, Politics, Career and Workplace, Grant Park
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After victory, reality
The elections did little to wipe away the deep challenges and frictions facing the nation, and if there was a morning-after metaphor that crystallized that reality it might have been this: Chicago awoke Wednesday to a pair of economic jolts, one...
Tags: Springfield, Democratic Party, Politics, John Cornyn, White House
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Obama campaign plans 'watch party'
Whoever wins the campaign for president a week from Tuesday, this election night is not likely to resemble 2008 on the streets of Chicago. Four years ago, Chicago police blanketed the streets of downtown as streams of jubilant Barack Obama supporters...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, International Organizations, Politics, Chicago Police Department, Grant Park
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Chicago should benefit from friendly White House
As he looks ahead to President Barack Obama's second term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel expects funding for roads and mass transit and a push for education reform to be high on the White House's to-do list. Not surprisingly, those agenda items also are close to...
Tags: Labor Markets, Politics, White House, Chicago Mayor, Washington, DC
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Did Chicago botch Super Bowl chances with McDome fiasco?
Most longtime Bears fans think their team should have won more than one Super Bowl by now. Marc Ganis, president of the Chicago-based consulting firm SportsCorp Ltd., tells me Chicago should have been host to multiple Super Bowls by now if the idea of...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Roger Goodell, Super Bowl, Soldier Field, National Football League
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Chicago is mostly banished at Obama party
"Hello, Chicago," said the city's newly elected hometown president, speaking to ecstatic Grant Park celebrants four years ago this week amid a backdrop of iconic Midwestern skyscrapers, shimmering in red, white and blue. After Barack Obama's victory rally...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Obama U.S. Presidential Victory Rally (2008), Politics, Grant Park, Tribune Tower
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Obama rally: McCormick Place site to limit attendance
Four years ago, Janesh Rahlan watched the Grant Park presidential election extravaganza play out on TV from the confines of his parent's Aurora home. "I did want to go, but my parents said that is not happening on a school night," said Rahlan, now 20 and...
Tags: Obama U.S. Presidential Victory Rally (2008), Politics, Grant Park, Immigration, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
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Motor Row memories
Special to the TribuneWhen Henry Ford arrived by train in Chicago's Central Station in 1905, he was just steps from the South Michigan Avenue site that would be his first store outside Detroit. His new plan to sell automobiles from bright showrooms would change Chicago and...Tags: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Vehicles, World War II (1939-1945), Michigan Avenue, Manufacturing and Engineering
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McCormick Place to host Obama's election-night rally
President Barack Obama plans to hold his election-night rally at Chicago's McCormick Place convention center, a move aimed at easing concerns over weather and security, sources with knowledge of the event said Wednesday. Given the indoor location, the...
Tags: Bank of America Corp., Politics, Time Warner Cable Arena, Grant Park, Chicago Mayor
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Sighting: Obama's McCormick Place rally leaves celeb supporters star-struck
Barack Obama once again seemed to have a firm grip on the Hollywood vote during this year's election, so it's no surprise that stars came out to support the president Tuesday at his election night rally at McCormick Place. And because, to them, there...
Tags: Politics, Michael Shannon, Twitter, Inc., Man of Steel (movie), Alfre Woodard
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