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Al Capone's descendants get Chicago-based reality TV series
RedEyeProving once again that anything can be made into a reality TV series, REELZ Channel announced Wednesday that Al Capone's descendants will be the centerpiece of a new docuseries. "The Capones" will debut this fall and stars Dom and Dawn Capone, owners of...Tags: Sausages, The Untouchables (movie), Television Industry, Meatballs, The Godfather (movie)
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Unusual, 20,000-square-foot Orland home still on the market
From the custom elk shed chandelier hanging in the foyer to the archery range in the basement, every inch of Mike and Judy Lembke's massive Orland Park home is crafted to match their family's love of the outdoors. "We're very outdoorsy people so the...
Tags: Real Estate, College Sports, Services and Shopping, Heavy Engineering, Rentals
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Ald. Lingonberry could get famous driving the Cubs from Wrigleyville
If there's one surefire way for a lowly Chicago alderman to surpass the worldwide fame of Michael Jordan and Al Capone, it's this: All the alderman has to do is help drive the Chicago Cubs out of town into the waiting, trembling arms of suburban...
Tags: Pancakes, Wrigley Field, Chicago White Sox, Thomas M. Tunney, Tribune Company
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Finalists face one another at Washington County Free Library's Battle of the Books
alnotarianni@aol.comThere were eight teams of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders, each armed with a large pad of paper, a marker and everything they could remember about 20 books they had read. Finalists who had been reading and practicing since November faced one another in...Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Museum Dioramas, Human Interest, Museums
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Cermak's death offers lesson in Chicago Way
The assassinated Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who died 80 years ago this week, is often portrayed by official histories as just an innocent victim of bad luck and bad aim. But Chicagoans don't believe in coincidences, not even us chumbolones,...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kelsey Grammer, Prisons, Immigration, Edward M. Burke
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10 things you might not know about razed Chicago
Chicago Tribune reportersEver since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...Tags: Gold Coast, Wrigley Field, Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Institute of Chicago, Richard M. Daley
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Mike Piazza goes from baseball to ballet
Mike Piazza, the former major league baseball player, is taking on an unconventional post-retirement job. The athlete is teaming up with Miami City Ballet and will perform a role in the company's production of George Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth...Tags: San Diego Padres, Music, Entertainment Events, Baseball, Sports
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Mike Piazza to perform with Miami City Ballet
Mike Piazza, who looked so good in pinstripes during his half-hour as a member of the then-Florida Marlins, will put on similarly fashionable stripes when he takes the stage May 3 in Miami City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s...
Tags: Organized Crime, The New York Times, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Mike Piazza, Miami Marlins
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'Variety' coffee-table book displays the evolution of an iconic magazine
As it says here, on page 64 of the glossily fascinating coffee-table book "Variety: An Illustrated History of the World From the Most Important Magazine in Hollywood," Al Capone, interviewed in his Chicago home, told Variety he was approached often to...
Tags: Elvis Presley, Sarah Silverman, American Idol (tv program), James Dean, Newspaper and Magazine
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Marijuana legalization bill may threaten fabulous Prohibition II profits
With Valentine's Day still fresh in our minds, thoughts naturally turn to retired Army Gen. John T. Thompson of Newport, Ky., who helped give America one of its most vivid memories of that holiday. After serving in two wars, Thompson saw a need for a...Tags: Organized Crime, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Valentine's Day, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice
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An unhinged Chicago intrudes
Chicago is brassy and muscular and loves, maybe lives, to strut into most any spotlight. The barons and baronesses of commerce, the occasional Bulls star, a corrupt governor or two, the mono-named TV hostess, the vicious snowstorms — they matter...
Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Hadiya Pendleton, Barack Obama, Laws
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