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Chicago voters, most of them living, set to pick a new mayor today: Rahm Emanuel or Gery Chico?
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Jeanne Gang brings feminine touch to Chicago's muscled skyline
Architecture CriticBefore we turn to an assessment of Aqua, a new residential skyscraper in Chicago, permit me a quick (and relevant!) detour to a sidewalk news conference in Lower Manhattan, held recently at the foot of the under-construction Beekman Tower. We join the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, University of Michigan, Gaming, Economy, Business and Finance, Robert Venturi
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Modern technology ages 'Leatherheads'
When using visual effects to give a movie like "Leatherheads" a period feel, one fumble and it's all over. We're not talking alien robots, explosions or otherworldly creatures here; these effects have to take audiences back to a real time and place. So...Tags: George Clooney, Movies, Leatherheads (movie), Sports, Entertainment
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A tour from the top down
Times Staff WriterADMIRE the Chicago skyline on a five-day architecture history tour with the Oceanside Museum of Art. The tour, which begins Sept. 22, will visit the Art Institute of Chicago and Oak Park, Ill., site of the home and studio of architect Frank Lloyd Wright,...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Institute of Chicago, Fishing, Travel, Landforms
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NU making huge strides in football recruiting
High school players used to pick Northwestern because the alternative was Ivy League football or maybe a Mid-American Conference school. Oh, how times have changed. Offensive lineman Tommy Doles chose Northwestern over home-state Michigan. Receiver/...
Tags: Michigan Wolverines, Wisconsin Badgers, Penn State Nittany Lions, Southeastern Conference, Northwestern Wildcats
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Nightcrawlers
NV Penthouse Lounge is a great place to enjoy the Chicago skyline, but some chilly nights call for a more intimate, subterranean space. That's when you head downstairs to Prohibit, NV's recently opened sibling lounge, for some candlelit conversation....Tags: Reese Witherspoon, St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Robert J. Lopez
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Breakfast standards and so much more
For Spiros Argiris and Gus Sellis, the story of their lives is written on the walls. Argiris points around the room at the Valois Cafeteria's murals: the Museum of Science and Industry, Hyde Park Bank, the South Side lakeshore. Then he points to the...
Tags: University of Chicago, Steaks, Fried Potatoes, Pancakes, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Trib Nation responds to one Chicagoan's view of it for an East Coast paper
Boy, Trib Nation had a few things to say about DePaul Professor Rachel Shteir's Sunday Book Review article on Chicago, drawn from three books written by people from here, and which appeared this week in The New York Times. She reviewed "Golden," by...
Tags: Media Industry, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Magnificent Mile
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Simeon All Access | Dean of the Wolverines
If Robert Smith has his way, he one day soon will leave Simeon and the program that changed his life and the Chicago basketball scene. For what he hopes is seven more games, the program is still his. The 41-year-old coach of five state championship...
Tags: Basketball, Robert Gates, Jesse White, Sports, Derrick Rose
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Living the high life
Penthouses are increasingly defining the Chicago skyline as developers tap into a niche market for luxury residential properties and savvy buyers and renters see an opportunity to elevate their lifestyles. Buyers pay a premium for those lofty perches,...
Tags: Navy Pier, Chicago Hotels, West Town, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Real Estate Buyers
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One school digs in to stay alive
Last Tuesday Tara Stamps gave her students at Jenner Academy of the Arts an assignment, to write a letter home. The letter would be a good writing exercise. Could they marshal facts? Find their own voice? Spell and punctuate? It would also serve...
Tags: Science and Technology, Education, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Northwestern music building gets $6M gift
A $6 million gift to Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music will go toward the school's $117 million, 152,000-square foot Music and Communication Building, which is under construction on the Evanston lakefront and scheduled to open in fall 2015....Tags: Joffrey Ballet, Northwestern University, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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