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Amid the myths, searching for the real 'Bathhouse John'
As historic types, Chicago aldermen do not lack for color. But despite the height of the bar for eccentricity on the City of Chicago's council, Ald. John Coughlin vaults over it with ease. In his time around the turn of the last century — a time...
Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Theme Park Vacations, Al Capone, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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At the Lincoln Park Zoo, camping out under the monkeys
The campfire was in a metal pit, under a great, wide roof. The tents were pitched on a well-tended lawn, with help from people who work for an outdoors store. Bears were a threat only if someone had forgotten to lock an enclosure door. And dinner was...
Tags: Museum of Science and Industry, Brooklyn (New York City), Field Museum of Natural History, Yosemite National Park, Brookfield Zoo
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Power is on at ZooLights in Lincoln Park and Brookfield Zoo's Holiday Magic
You can call it humbuggery, but I had a pretty low-voltage reaction to ZooLights the first time I went to see it, probably 10 years ago. I remember at the Lincoln Park Zoo's holiday season tribute to luminescence some lights in trees and some animal...
Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Family, Brownsville, Religious Festivals, Brookfield Zoo
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Getting 'birded' in Lincoln Park
Like at least one of them has been doing almost every morning since March, Mason Fidino and Kelvin Limbrick are standing in a flat, grassy patch north of Lincoln Park's nature museum, looking intently at sky and trees and listening like, well, hawks. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Wildlife, Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks, North Pond
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'Boss' filming wraps in Chicago, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis coming to Wrigley Field, Pitchfork sightings
If you followed Kelsey Grammer’s time in the Chicago area filming Season 2 of cable network Starz’s “Boss,” you likely know the five-time Emmy-winning actor had his wife’s name tattooed on his hip in April at Insight...
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Zack Snyder, Lollapalooza, T.I., Haley Reinhart
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Teen poet thirsts for knowledge
Malcolm London is young, black and talented, and that is a guarantee of nothing these days. But he says, "I do not do what I do for money. I come from a place with no money and don't expect I will ever have a lot of it. But I think that being a teacher...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Celebrities, NPR, Poetry, Promised Land (movie)
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Phil Vettel recommends
Now that holiday madness is upon us, here are a few rest stops whose seasonal decor will put you in a festive mood. And if not, there's always spiked eggnog.
Butch McGuire's: Division Street mayhem meets Currier & Ives at this Gold Coast watering hole,...Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Holidays, Bars and Clubs, Millennium Park
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A procrastinator's guide to making the holidays count
The holidays always seem to come too soon and leave too early. One minute you're wailing that the stores are playing "Jingle Bell Rock" at Halloween, the next you're whimpering that it's Jan. 2 and you never really felt the holiday spirit. By "you," I...
Tags: Cloud Gate, Holidays, Religious Festivals, Halloween, Brookfield Zoo
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Chicagoan saves one dog at a time from rabies in Africa
NANGALE, Tanzania — Only about half the dogs Anna Czupryna is studying in Tanzania have names. Dogs are different here. They are foragers and night watchmen who are treated more like livestock than pets. But when the dogs of north-central Tanzania...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at School, Demographics, Vaccines, Malaria
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Lincoln Park Zoo works to eradicate rabies in Africa
NANGALE, Tanzania — Huddled with his younger brother, the young man laughs easily, conspiratorially, at the commotion caused by the presence of curious foreigners in his family's modest compound outside this small village. But when you ask 19-...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Diseases and Illnesses, Merck & Company Incorporated, Vaccines, Research
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Zoo's anti-rabies program attracts local donations, big and small
Drink lemonade, save a lion. That, more or less, was the pitch made by two Gold Coast kids who set up a beverage stand on their front porch during this year's Air and Water Show to benefit the Lincoln Park Zoo's anti-rabies program near Tanzania's...
Tags: Rabies, Vaccines, Tanzania
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Pizza, piano, a poem
I occasionally make a list of things I've liked recently. Here's one for the holidays. 1. Gift idea: a pizza stone My colleague Kevin Pang, culinary savant, told me I had to put this on the list. His testimonial: "This $45 slab of rock has changed...
Tags: NPR, Carla Bley, Williams-Sonoma Inc., Music, Religious Festivals
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