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Sound of summer
As you brace for Chicago's onslaught of summer music festivals, save room for a new addition: the Great Googa Mooga. Organized by Superfly Presents, the company behind the Bonnaroo and Outside Lands festivals, Googa Mooga focuses on food. At last year's...
Tags: Festive Events, Pitchfork Music Festival, Music, Arts and Culture, Concerts
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Funds for Mag Mile median gardens not blooming
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds The tulips on Michigan Avenue are a staple of spring in Chicago, but a decline in contributions to the project's sponsoring organization may force future plantings to be scaled back. John Chikow, president of the Greater North...... -
Proliferating scandals expose truth about Obama
Dogged by scandal, and with his press secretary presumably now curled up in the fetal position and breathing into a brown paper bag, it's obvious President Barack Obama is in need. Our president must find his happy place again, away from irritating...
Tags: Elections, Politics, U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Journalism
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16 food trucks applied to be part of the Taste
RedEyeA total of 16 food trucks submitted applications to be part of this year's Taste of Chicago, the city said Thursday. This year's food fest, scheduled for July 10-14 in Grant Park, will include licensed food trucks for the first time. The trucks will...Tags: Services and Shopping, Taste of Chicago, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Vehicles
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16 food trucks apply to be part of Taste of Chicago
Sixteen food trucks submitted applications to be part of this year's Taste of Chicago, city officials said Thursday. This year's food festival, scheduled for July 10-14 in Grant Park, will include licensed food trucks for the first time. The trucks will...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Taste of Chicago, Vehicles
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Nearly half polled favor Emanuel's shortened Taste
Chicago mayors have been scaling back the Taste of Chicago and the hoopla surrounding it for years. That downsizing is playing well among white voters but proving unpopular among African-Americans and Latinos, according to a Tribune/WGN-TV poll. The...
Tags: Elections, Chicago Mayor, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Restaurants
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Kahan, Bayless head Taste's Chef du Jour lineup
Tribune reporterPaul Kahan, who received the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef award last week, and Rick Bayless, who won his Outstanding Chef award in 1991 (the first Chicago chef so honored), will head the Mazda6 Celebrity Chef du Jour lineup at Taste of...Tags: Rick Bayless, Taste of Chicago, Naha, The Publican, Brunch
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New Chicago concerts on sale: Michael Buble, Robert Plant, Fun, Iron and Wine
*** = Recommended shows On sale 10 a.m. Wednesday Fun, Delta Spirit, Wednesday, July 10 ($25, all ages) at Grant Park’s Petrillo Music Shell. Neon Trees, The Mowgli’s, Sunday, July 14 ($25, all ages) at Grant Park’s Petrillo Music...
Tags: Music, Lone (music group), Iron & Wine (music group), United Center, Entertainment
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Lollapalooza 2013: Which day rocks the hardest?
Lollapalooza presented festivalgoers with some difficult choices Tuesday when it announced its hour-by-hour schedule for the three-day, sold-out festival. Two headliners a day will play simultaneously at opposite ends of Grant Park: Nine Inch Nails and...
Tags: Music, Mail Order Industry, Science and Technology, Lollapalooza, Entertainment
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Night Out in the Parks: Chicago announces summer activities
Tribune reporterCircus performers and Shakespearean actors helped Mayor Rahm Emanuel announce Tuesday that the city is doubling the number of performances and cultural events at its parks this summer. Amid lush greenery and newly bloomed flowers at Garfield Park...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Rogers Park, Chicago Mayor, Music, Rahm Emanuel
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Mother's Day breast cancer run a tribute to Maggie Daley
On a holiday celebrating families, former Mayor Richard M. Daley's tribute to his late wife inspired a pink-clad crowd running to raise awareness for breast cancer. Thousands streamed into Grant Park on Sunday morning for the Komen Chicago Mother's...
Tags: Human Interest, Mother's Day, Richard M. Daley, Breast Cancer
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May 12, 2013
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