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Bike To Work Week: Get ready for five days of cycling!
WGN Feature Reporter and WGN Web ProducerWith temperatures and gas prices climbing, bike commuting is only getting more popular – especially here in Chicago. We’re gearing up (sorry) for the city’s Bike to Work Week (June 11th – 15th) and have lots of cool stories...Tags: Cycling, Sports, Chicago Transit Authority
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Weekend: Eat. Drink. Do.
EAT New brown bag Allium, 120 E. Delaware Place 312-649-2337 Holiday half-day at work? Make the most of your afternoon with The Brown Bag Lunch, which features a 500-calorie, three-course meal including grilled wild salmon with beet quinoa and...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Entertainment, Memorial Day, Fashion Shows, Bars and Clubs
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Downtown Sound in Millennium Park
It's time to dust off your lawn chair and/or picnic blanket and head to Millennium Park for Downtown Sound. The free indie, rock and pop music series taking place Monday nights through July 30 includes performances by Cloud Cult, the Sadies, Jonathan...Tags: Michigan Avenue, Charles Bradley, Entertainment, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Music
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NATO protesters pack up street show
David Farr awoke on the ground of a NATO protester camp in Woodlawn on Monday, damp, cold and ready to go home. Farr, 19, arrived Thursday night on a bus from Portland, Ore., and had used the outpost as a base since — stretching out on a tarp...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, NATO, Rahm Emanuel, Politics, Activism
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The loneliest Chicagoan
Forty-four years ago, as the battles of the 1968 Democratic National Convention swirled around him, no combatant saw more action than Gen. John Alexander Logan. From atop the man-made hill built for his statue just east of Michigan Avenue in Grant Park,...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Sociology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, McCormick Place, NATO Summit
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The best summer hookup spots in Chicago
My favorite hookup season is right around the corner! Can you tell me where are the best places to meet people in the summer in Chicago? —Eager Beaver Nothing would please me more, gentle, promiscuous stranger. But first, an annoying...
Tags: Michelin Group, Entertainment, Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Taste of Chicago
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Top chefs have 'A Taste for the Arts'
Special to Tribune NewspapersStudent performances and Top Chef stations were the main attractions at "A Taste for the Arts" benefiting the Chicago Academy of the Arts. More than 350 attended the free performances by students and alumni May 10 at the Harris Theater. The show opened...Tags: Stephanie Izard, Dale Levitski, Entertainment, Arts, Sarah Grueneberg
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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: Chicago Loop, Chicago Restaurants, NATO Summit, Dining and Drinking, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Fest Fridays: Lakeview's Mayfest
RedEyeIt seems the idea of a festival in May is just too much to contain to one weekend. Not to be confused with Lincoln Square’s Maifest (scheduled for May 31), this Mayfest aims to get Chicago festival season kicked off with all the classics: Street...Tags: Chicago Blues Fest, Pilsen, Lincoln Square (Chicago, Illinois), Arts and Culture, Belmont-Sheffield Music Festival
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Spring Tributes to Retiring Music Faculty Harris, Hemke and Kujala
TribLocal - EvanstonEVANSTON, Ill. — With a combined total of 135 years of teaching experience at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, three soon-to-retire …... -
From classroom to stage, young operatic hopefuls prove their mettle
The face of opera in this country is changing dramatically, not least because there are so many "feeder" systems to identify gifted young American singers of professional potential and give them the training and stage experience they need to be able to...
Tags: Poetry, Entertainment, Opera (genre), Artists, Arts and Culture
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