Oct. 27, 2008 – Starting in fall 2009, high school students more interested in joining the robotics team than playing on a sports team will have a new school to attend in the Loop, Chicago's commercial and financial hub. The Chicago Academy for Advanced Technology, one of 12 new schools unanimously approved by the...
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Listen to Fernando Categories: Art & Entertainment In the Loop Public Tags: blues concert fernando jones music
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography is pleased to present several coordinated exhibitions in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road. This is part of a year-long College-wide celebration of Beat culture. The centerpiece of this activity will be the original manuscript scroll of On the Road, on view at the...
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In 1958 photographer Art Kane shot his iconic picture "A Great Day in Harlem" featuring jazz greats assembled on the stoop of a Harlem apartment building. Getting everyone together for the photo was so tricky that it is the subject of a documentary. On Saturday April 14th, 2007, Pulitzer-prize winning photographer John White and...
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What is Second Bedroom Project Space? Story by Amy Rudberg June 17, 2008 – Second Bedroom is a spare bedroom that Chris Smith has in his Morgan Street apartment in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood. Smith and Irene Perez turned it into a project space for artists. Before they decided to start the project, the bedroom...
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Story by Autumn Reese Submitted on Mon, 06/02/2008 – 21:48. Police officers at a recent South Loop CAPS meeting said crime in the neighborhood has decreased, but a local property manager disagreed. Jack Beebe said there were prostitution and drug crimes at the upscale high rise he manages at 1620 S. Michigan Avenue. “We...
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Submitted on Wed, 04/09/2008 – 23:09. Bella Bacino’s in LaGrange has a great variety of food. I’ve not had a chance to go there for breakfast or lunch yet, but the dinner was supberb. There were so many choices. (Check them out!) My boyfriend and I ended up splitting a red bell pepper cream...
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Submitted on Tue, 04/03/2007 – 02:03. With just two weeks left until E-day, tensions between the two 2nd Ward candidates continue to escalate. The incumbent, Ald. Madeline Haithcock, won’t stop her campaign mailings to voters that call challenger Bob Fioretti a stalker. Now, in the April 2nd edition of the Sun-Times, the alderman calls...
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Submitted on Thu, 02/28/2008 – 02:46. Story by Rachael Koetsier Hundreds of doctors, patients and other health care professionals gathered at the Chicago Temple on Feb. 25 to protest cutbacks in services at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital. Supporters marched from the temple to City Hall waving signs and chanting slogans, calling on the...
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Submitted on Mon, 12/17/2007 – 16:41. Story by Dara Belic Attendees of a recent Jones College Prep meeting voiced both concern and optimism about a recent open house at the South Loop school that attracted more than 5,000 people. Located at 606 S. State St., Jones is one of eight Chicago public high schools...
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