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'The Right Stuff' is next on launchpad for 'One Book, One Chicago'
Chicago Tribune reporterTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of NASA and Chicago's Air and Water Show, Chicago library officials on Thursday announced "The Right Stuff" by author-journalist Tom Wolfe as its 15th selection for the "One Book, One Chicago" citywide book club series....Tags: Chicago Public Library, Libraries and Museums, Grant Park, Ceremonies, Space Programs
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Teenage fossil hunters dig in
Chicago Tribune reporterLying on her stomach in a pool of mud, Victoria Bochniak kept digging until she hit something hard. She tapped the object with her trowel, assuming it was a piece of wood. She was wrong. "We were like: 'Wait a second. This is bone!' " said Bochniak, who...Tags: Libraries and Museums, Field Museum of Natural History, Forestry and Timber, Natural Science, DuPage County
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Latino Music Festival gets ready to cover 6 centuries in city
Chicago Tribune criticThis year Chicago music is moving to a Latin beat—a Latin classical beat, that is—as never before. And you will want to put on your dancing shoes and join in. The 2008 Latino Music Festival covers such a rich and varied repertory—...Tags: Minority Groups, Heavy Engineering, Grant Park, Festive Event, Abraham Lincoln
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Oak Park sisterhood
Tribune reporterOak Park, looking hipper every time we drive through or stop to visit friends, is still home to ghosts. The most prominent, of course, is that of Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect. It was his ghost, and that of his lover, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, that...Tags: Jane Addams, Clubs and Associations, Amelia Earhart, Oak Park, Frank Lloyd Wright
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ALMANAC
On July 22, 1796, Moses Cleaveland founded the city of Cleveland. In 1882 painter Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, N.Y. In 1933 American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world—in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. In...Tags: National Government, O.J. Simpson, Jeffrey L Dahmer, Assault, Murder
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A beginner's tour of western North Carolina
In Marion, Andy of Mayberry came on the radio, nicely accompanying us north toward Linville.
Our friends lived in a development that didn't look like one. We climbed high above a lake along narrow twisting roads, passing new houses embedded in woods....Tags: Country Music, Homes, Minor League Baseball, New York Times, Billy Graham
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City of broad strictures
Chicago's grit is the stuff of legend. The city's hardscrabble history conjures images of wind-beaten dock hands; rugged immigrants working punishing factory jobs; and 500 acres of slaughterhouses and their hard-time killing floors. At the same time,...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Second City, Gun Control, Al Capone, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Architecture buffs strike gold on Maywood home tour
Special to the Chicago TribuneWhen Tom Kus visited a Queen Anne-style house that was for sale eight years ago in Maywood, his jaw dropped, he said. The 13-room house, built in 1894, had a wraparound porch and Greek columns and could pass as a mansion with its bridal staircase, carved...Tags: River Forest, Architecture, Naperville, Wrigleyville, Oak Park
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Free stuff
Carl Sandburg's estate, Connemara, is a National Historic Site in Flat Rock, according to the "Mountain Seasons Vacation Planner," a guide to the Hendersonville area in western North Carolina. (800-828-4244; www .historichendersonville.org) ... "A... -
Chicago, city of broad strictures
Chicago's grit is the stuff of legend. The city's hard-scrabble history conjures images of wind-beaten dock hands; rugged immigrants working punishing factory jobs; and 500 acres of slaughterhouses and their hard-time killing floors.
At the same time,...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Second City, Gun Control, Al Capone, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Obama's fundraising collides with his rhetoric
Tribune reporterMaytag workers whose jobs were shipped to Mexico serve as consistent characters in Barack Obama's stump speech. He employs their stories in railing against corporations that use trade pacts to replace well-paid union workers with low-cost foreign ones....Tags: Hillary Clinton, Executive Branch, United Airlines, Rod Blagojevich, Electrical Appliance
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The final Chicago Daily News
Chicago TribuneChicago's last afternoon newspaper, the brilliant and brawny Chicago Daily News, refused to go quietly. Its final edition on this day was breezily headlined "So long, Chicago." It died at the age of 102, the last of a long line of newspapers that tried...Tags: Tribune Co., Heavy Engineering, Marshall Field, Mass Media, Death and Dying
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