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Making sense of the marathon
It's too late to sign up to run the Bank of America Chicago Marathon—all 45,000 spots were taken long ago. But you can watch and cheer your athlete along on Sunday. Here's a quick guide to doing that considerably less strenuous activity:
Where: The...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, NBC, McDonald's, Grant Park, Chicago Marathon
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Chicago parks earns money from music fest
The Chicago Park District has earned $1.6 million from this year's Lollapalooza rock 'n' roll festival. The park district's take for this summer's Grant Park festival is about $400,000 more than last year's revenues. Parks Superintendent Timothy...Tags: Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago Park District, Chicago Sun-Times, Festive Event
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Tours
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. Chicago Segway Tour: Hop aboard a Segway Personal Transporter for a guided, rolling tour of the lakefront, Museum Campus, Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain and more. Includes a training...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Gold Coast, Grant Park, Architecture
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Play dates
Classes '70s and '80s Flashback Dance: Dress in your best '70s or '80s garb and learn some moves during an hour-long lesson, then dance to a deejay; through Oct. 3. 7:30 p.m. Fri.; $5. Willowbrook Ballroom, 8900 Archer Ave., Willow Springs;708-839-1000....Tags: Millennium Park, Yoga, Navy Pier, Beach Vacations, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Grant Park rose garden to get face lift with $1.25 million grant
Chicago Tribune reporterChicago park officials hope a $1.25 million grant from Tiffany & Co. Foundation that was announced Thursday will improve a rose garden just south of Buckingham Fountain, transforming it into a breathtaking venue that can be rented out for bar mitzvahs and...Tags: Millennium Park, Company Privatization, National Government, Government, Chicago White Sox
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Cubs title could be start of something big
IN THE WAKE OF THE NEWSWell, too bad a few of those other 2008 Cubs who played a part in this couldn't have been a part of this. You know, guys like Scott Eyre and Sean Gallagher and Matt Murton and Eric Patterson. Oh, what sights they would have seen Saturday when the Cubs...Tags: Eric Patterson, Geovany Soto, National League, Boston Red Sox, Sean Gallagher
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Fountain signs off for the season
Sonu Kori (left) and Trevor Jenkins, both from Kansas City, relax and watch Buckingham Fountain on Monday, its final day before closing down for a $25 million repair and renovation project. The renovated fountain will conserve water and produce a more... -
Park activists aim to bridge fountain, Queen's Landing for pedestrians
Chicago Tribune criticGrant Park is sending some very mixed messages to pedestrians—"the foot people," as the late, great urbanologist Jane Jacobs called them. On the one hand, the lot of the pedestrian experience has been improving in the most central of Chicago's...Tags: Public Officials, St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation, Ceremonies, Society, Lake Shore Drive
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How to survive the big weekend
Take it from somebody who's spent a few long weekends at rock festivals: Plan but don't overplan. ■To make the most out of Lollapalooza, find a few key bands you really want to see. But leave some gaps in your schedule so you can bump into...Tags: Lollapalooza, Perry Farrell, Patti Smith, Architecture, Chicago Skyline
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Mike Downey column
Next time you hear from me (I hope), it will be from Beijing, which back in the Middle Ages when I was a younger man was known to all of us as Peking (and a duck). What I know about China now is that it has a Great Wall, a 7-foot-6-inch Yao Ming and a...Tags: Major League Baseball, NBC, St. Louis Cardinals, Government, National Government
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Snapshots from Lolla
FRIDAY 2:42 p.m.: "This Area Is for Children and Parents Accompanied by Children," read signs posted around the nicely shaded Kidzapalooza stage, but several hundred kidless fans don't get the message. Jeff Tweedy's appearance presents an opportunity to...Tags: Barack Obama, Wilco, Lollapalooza, AT&T Corp., Grant Park
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Free for all
THURSDAY Public dance/lessons: Grant Park, 601 S. Michigan Ave., Spirit of Music Garden. Dance lessons 6 to 7 p.m. with Passistas Samba Dance Group, dance from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. to Orquestra de Samba. Concert: Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue and...Tags: Daley Civic Center, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Dance, Shedd Aquarium
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