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Turkey president shops at Brooks Brothers and other NATO sightings
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, had dinner at upscale Mexican restaurant Mercadito Monday while in Chicago for NATO. And as you would expect, he had plenty of company. Besides the Prince's table of seven, the large...
Tags: Illinois Governor, John Allen, The Publican, Christianity, Christian Orthodoxy
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Kass: Chicago's forgotten innocents need our attention too
Baron Banks wasn't in Washington to witness President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday. "No," he told me. "Nobody gave me a call." So he wasn't in the first lady's box as the president somberly acknowledged the families that lost...
Tags: State of the Union Address, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, White House, South Chicago
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All sides must put political nonsense aside
Not every night will you see Gov. Pat Quinn shaking hands with players in the Cubs dugout or Sen. Dick Durbin mingling with team Chairman Tom Ricketts on the field. Not every night at Clark and Addison will you find Sec. of State Hillary Clinton...
Tags: Illinois Governor, Baseball, John Allen, Chicago Mayor, Pat Quinn
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The detectives who remember the children
The other day at lunch, two Chicago police detectives, Bill Sullivan and Michele Moore-Grose, were talking with me about the murder cases they've been working and the young people shot dead. They brought up a movie to explain what they see in Chicago....
Tags: The Hunger Games (movie), Shootings, Murder, Derrion Albert, Fenger High School
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Dwoyne Baker wasn't perfect, but we shouldn't forget his killing
Calling someone a "perfect homicide victim" sounds terribly callous. But it explains the political/media liturgy that we all know so well. By a perfect victim, I mean one who is innocent, photogenic and never arrested, with a bright future. The...
Tags: South Chicago, Michelle Obama, Murder, Hadiya Pendleton, Peanuts
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Occupy's niche smaller 1 year after landmark arrests
This week marks the first anniversary of a memorable act of street theater in the city — the peaceful, ritual arrest of 173 Occupy Chicago protesters who refused to leave Grant Park after the 11 p.m. curfew. As news accounts at the time related,...
Tags: Lawyers, Grant Park, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chicago Confidential: City makes headway in Bloomingdale Trail project
The city of Chicago last week bought the 2.7-mile-long elevated Canadian Pacific Railway spur known as the Bloomingdale Trail. The sales price was $1, not including administrative fees. By the time the spur's makeover into a bike and running path is...
Tags: Chicago City Hall, John Hancock Center, Corporate Officers, Transportation, Chicago Park District
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Schools chief Brizard, the mayor's human shield
Before there was a looming teachers strike and before the mayor had to go through Friday's charade of giving Chicago Public Schools frontman Jean-Claude Brizard a vote of confidence, the schoolmaster was engaging in social networking. Brizard got himself...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Chicago Mayor, Career and Workplace, Chicago City Hall, Chicago Public Schools
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Violence and greeting cards
Robert Koehler"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies . . ." My thanks to Medea Benjamin for her recent Common Dreams essay putting the spirit of Julia Ward Howe back into Mother's Day. I'd forgotten about her 1870 proclamation of...Tags: Politics, Family, Chicago Tribune, Afghanistan, Pakistan
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Ahead of summit, the Loop is quiet — too quiet — for retail businesses
Downtown Chicago ahead of the NATO summit, which takes place Sunday and Monday, was given over to tourists in shorts and T-shirts as a good share of the workforce opted to telecommute Friday or take the day off.
While commuters relished the breathing...Tags: Career and Workplace, Culture, Business Enterprises, International Organizations, Employees
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Concert review: Bonnie Raitt at Chicago Theatre
Bonnie Raitt claimed she was “intimidated” by the Chicago Theatre, but that hardly seemed the case Saturday in the first of two sold-out concerts at the Loop landmark.
Raitt’s wisecracks, several at her own expense, and genial banter...Tags: Music, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Entertainment, Concerts
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Arrests, protests disrupt NATO summit in Chicago
The net is widening as police arrest more suspects planning to disrupt the NATO summit in Chicago. 24-year-old Sebastian Senakiewicz and 28-year-old Mark Seiween were taken into custody Sunday. They now face "conspiracy unlawful use of a weapon" and...
Tags: Jesse Jackson, International Organizations, Politics, NATO
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