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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 Mayor, United Center, McCormick Place, Navy Pier, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry
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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: Services and Shopping, Chicago Park District, Social Issues, General Motors Corp., Chicago Loop
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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: Chicago Mayor, Religious Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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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: Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Religious Festivals, Religion and Belief, Francis I, Chicago Loop
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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: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Artists, IKEA, The Salvation Army, Lobbying
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Its job complete, Obama re-election tech team ventures forward
In spring 2011, Michael Slaby made a pitch to a small group of men at the West Loop offices of Sandbox Industries, a local venture capital firm and business incubator. Slaby, a Chicagoan and the chief integration and innovation officer for President...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Amazon.com Inc., Barack Obama, Computer Hardware, Mitt Romney
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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: Bank of America Corp., Restaurants, Chicago Loop, Sandwiches, Lifestyle and Leisure
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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: Pilsen, Arts and Culture, Chicago Loop
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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: DuPage County, Chicago Mayor, Downers Grove, Sara Lee Corporation, Metra
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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: Restaurants, Chicago Restaurants, Chicago Loop, Acadia, Lifestyle and Leisure
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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: Leslie Mann, Hemorrhoids, Chicago Loop, Mary Tyler Moore, Paul Rudd
May 19, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 27, 2013
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Mar 29, 2013
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Mar 6, 2013
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Nov 25, 2012
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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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