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Michelle Obama's biggest speech ever
The Swampby Frank James In a few hours, Michelle Obama, the would-be first lady of the U.S., will make the most important speech of her life as she introduces herself, her husband and her family to the nation from the grandest......Tags: Government, Republican Party, John McCain, University of Chicago, Politics
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Gary taking a new tack to expand, land business for its airport
For many years, Gary/Chicago International Airport has offered its services as a reliever airport to help ease flight-delay pressures at Chicago's two airports. Yet there have been few takers among airlines or passengers, despite competition in the form...
Tags: Finance, Midway Airport, Peotone, Michigan Avenue, Will County
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CSO's Citizen Musician seeks right note
A little more than two years ago, the curtain lifted on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-led Citizen Musician initiative, and CSO Association President Deborah Rutter told an overflow crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center: “All of you are citizen...
Tags: Fine Artists, Woodlawn (Bronx, New York), Children's Memorial Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment
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Grant Park chorus master readies singers for a busy festival summer
Having rolled out some pretty heavy artillery to mark the 50th anniversary of the Grant Park Chorus and other musical milestones last summer, what will the 2013 Grant Park Music Festival do for an encore? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Almost every...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Grant Park Chorus, Financial Aid, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Entertainment
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Director William Friedkin comes home
William Friedkin, the director of “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” a pair of acclaimed Tracy Letts adaptations (“Bug” and “Killer Joe”) and author of “The Friedkin Connection,” a new...
Tags: Hyde Park, Star Wars (movie), Muvico Theaters, Entertainment, Union League Club
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Grant Park Music Festival summer season announced
Once again the Grant Park Music Festival is taking the lead among local summer festivals when it comes to presenting eclectic combinations of popular symphonic and choral fare and more adventuresome classical music programming. And it's all free. The...
Tags: Grant Park Chorus, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Ceremonies, Millennium Park
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Child's character matters in education
Jeff Nelson and his team at OneGoal knew they couldn't just focus on academics when they began to put together a strategy in 2007 to help underperforming Chicago Public Schools students enter college and earn degrees. As he talked to teens who had...
Tags: Entertainment Events, School Examinations, Chicago Teachers Strike, Roseland, Teaching and Learning
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Dawn Turner Trice: Lester and Nancy McKeever's South Shore legacy
Meet the McKeevers. Last week, Lester and Nancy McKeever moved out of the penthouse apartment where they've lived for nearly 40 years. If you only knew that the McKeevers are one of Chicago's longtime power couples, then maybe that would be enough...
Tags: Rental Service, Dawn Turner Trice, Lawyers, Chicago Public Schools, Justice System
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Nun cannot be silenced
The song started as a sentence in Sister Kathy Sherman's head. Love cannot be silenced. That was last April, and the Vatican had just publicly reprimanded the country's largest leadership organization of Catholic women religious, accusing the...
Tags: News Media, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Christianity, Music
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Jeb Bishop's 50th birthday celebration could feel like a mini-fest
Trombonist Jeb Bishop has been a key player on Chicago's avant-garde jazz scene for the past two decades, working prolifically with such similarly indispensable figures as reedists Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis, guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Kent...
Tags: Howard Reich, Hyde Park, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Jimi Hendrix
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'Funkin' With Electric Soul' takes on legends Jimi Hendrix, James Brown
You usually don't hear jazz singers taking on James Brown's "Sex Machine" or Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." But one brave Chicago vocalist will be plunging headlong into this music Friday night, when the apparently fearless Dee Alexander takes the...
Tags: Howard Reich, New Year's Day, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment
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CTA's bus rapid transit won't be so rapid
CTA planning manager Joe Iacobucci is the first to acknowledge at the transit agency that "if you ask the average person in Chicago what BRT is, you get a blank look." BRT, or bus rapid transit, is Iacobucci's special project. He hopes to transform those...
Tags: Metra, Chicago Transit Authority, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Railway Transportation
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