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Blues musician Pinetop Perkins, a former LaPorte resident, dies at 97
Chicago TribuneCHICAGO — Pinetop Perkins lived the blues. Born on a cotton plantation near Belzoni, Miss., in 1913, he worked the fields from age 7, drove a truck for a living at 18 and got stabbed in the arm in his late 20s. The barroom attack tore his...Tags: Texas, Music Theater, Chicago Tribune, B.B. King, Muddy Waters
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Camping
Chicago ShoppingIt’s finally camping season. But before you pack up your car and head to the campgrounds, there are a few things you need to know to make sure this trip goes off without a hitch. The first rule of camping is to leave all your technology behind,...Tags: Highland Park (Cook, Illinois), Computer Hardware, First Aid, Hoffman Estates, Kildeer
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Get addicted to speculoos
CHICAGO — After its creation was announced via nationwide broadcast, people lined up to buy the very first versions. It’s lightweight, has been the subject of fierce patent battles and is so addictive you can’t put it down, even when...
Tags: Recipes, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Butter, Chicago Tribune, Pancakes
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Worker in fatal construction site accident identified
Chicago TribuneA man working at a construction site on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston who died after he was struck by a beam that fell from six stories up this morning has been identified. The beam was knocked loose by a construction crane and struck...Tags: Labor Legislation, Colleges and Universities, Northwestern University, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Career and Workplace
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BMI measuring in schools proves weighty issue
Like other fourth-graders at Evanston's King Laboratory School, Jennifer Dreller's daughter was discreetly weighed during gym class as part of a routine fitness assessment. But the experience took a toll on the 10-year-old's self-esteem, her mother...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, American Heart Association, University of California, Berkeley, Vaccines, Diseases and Illnesses
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Restore waterway safeguards
I was shocked to learn that just this week the U.S. Senate had to defeat an attempt to allow more pollution into the streams and wetlands that feed Lake Michigan. For more than a decade, our waterways have been at risk of increased pollution thanks to...Tags: Water Pollution, U.S. Senate, Rivers, Bodies of Water, Environmental Pollution
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Illini 'invasion' of Evanston hits detour
The Fighting Illini Caravan will not wade into enemy territory next week. The Evanston bar World of Beer has canceled Illinois’ May 8 event, sending the two-hour reception to an establishment in downtown Chicago that has yet to be named. NU...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure
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The spread of speculoos
After its creation was announced via nationwide broadcast, people lined up to buy the very first versions. It's lightweight, has been the subject of fierce patent battles and is so addictive you can't put it down, even when you know you should. We're...
Tags: Recipes, Butter, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Chicago Tribune, Peanut Butter
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Court backs Evanston's rejection of Jewish school
Evanston officials on Monday applauded a judge's determination that they did not engage in religious discrimination when they rejected an Orthodox Jewish school's plans to move into town. The ruling means that officials with Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Transit Authority, Cook County Government, Judges, Justice System
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Annapolis' Borland, Williams lead classes at NOOD Regatta
Two Annapolis sailors, Jeff Borland and Tim Williams, took advantage of favorable winds on their home Chesapeake Bay waters to take the lead in their classes Saturday at the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regatta. Borland leads the nine-boat Etchells class...Tags: Severna Park, Alexandria (Alexandria, Virginia), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Boston, Washington, DC
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Obituary: Margery Ames Pflughaupt
Margery Ames Pflughaupt, a daughter of Benjamin C. Ames and Linton King Ames of Fort Smith, Ariz., died Sunday April 7, 2013, in her home in Danville, Ky., of Alzheimer’s disease. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. She was an organizing...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Anglicanism
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A job nobody would miss: Illinois lieutenant governor
In 1986, Woods Bowman, then a state representative from Evanston, heaped faint praise on the public servants who'd shouldered the job of Illinois lieutenant governor. "They've done what we ask them to do, which is next to nothing," he said. Next to...
Tags: Barrington, Regional Authority, Substance Abuse, Jim Edgar, Breast Cancer
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