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January 13: Lunchbreak - Ultimate Camp Cooking
WGN News81st Annual Chicago Boat, RV & Outdoors Show January 12 through January 16 McCormick Place 2301 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago www.chicagoboatshow.com Demonstrations: Friday, January 14: 12:30, 3:30, 5:30 Saturday, January 15: 12:30, 3:30, 5:30 Sunday,...Tags: Parmesan Cheese, WGN, Butter, Recipes, Peppers
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Substance, not style, needed
If asked what needs to be fixed in an economically distressed neighborhood such as Bronzeville, most of us would point to disinvestment, poverty, crime, drug trade, violence, too few jobs — those sorts of things. Most of us, that is, except the...Tags: University of Chicago, Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Music, Marketing
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Baloney watch
Change of SubjectIn Media's negative ways hurt Chicago, a commentary in tomorrow's Tribune, Lou Raizin president of Broadway in Chicago writes: Who is really responsible for any short-term loss of revenue to retail, entertainment and business in Chicago? The protesters?... -
CTA dedicates new 'L' station at Morgan and Lake — the first new Chicago stop to open in 15 years
Community activists have unsuccessfully prodded Chicago officials for years to build more CTA rail stations along the Lake Street elevated structure and on the branches of the Green Line to promote economic development in struggling neighborhoods below...Tags: West Loop, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Jon Hilkevitch
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Grand opening for new Morgan CTA station
Tribune reporterAlthough the new CTA Morgan rail station on the Lake Street elevated opened last week with no fanfare, the city is holding a grand opening today. The $38 million station, at Lake Street and Morgan Avenue on the Near West Side, serves the Green and Pink...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, NATO Summit
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McCarthy says he's proud of officers
WGN NewsChicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy came up for air just one day after the NATO summit came to a close. He says, looking back, less than a hundred arrests for the week, he is pleased and proud of his officers who worked long days and put...Tags: Garry McCarthy, NATO Summit, NATO, International Organizations, Riots
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R. Crumb stars at U. of C. comics panel
Over the weekend, as the NATO summit was stopping traffic across the Loop and you wondered whether Chicago would ever get a grip, farther south, at the new Logan Center for the Arts, a different, more mellow kind of summit was going on, a gathering of...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Joe Sacco, Facebook, Chicago Loop, NATO
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Protester to Chicago: 'Thank you very much'
Tribune staffAs the last crowd of demonstrators in the Loop dwindled, police on bikes pedaled off, receiving cheers from the crowd. Southbound lanes of Michigan Avenue were opened, and protesters headed to the L platform. About 50 of the protesters went to the Blue...Tags: Union Park, G8, Chicago Mayor, NATO, Occupy Wall Street
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Summit ends without giving Chicago a black eye
Once again, the whole world was watching. But Chicago didn't devolve into 1968 redux. It wasn't the combustible World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, either. By that barometer, Chicago's turn as host of the NATO summit could be declared a success....
Tags: Garry McCarthy, NATO, West Town Tavern, Rahm Emanuel, Leon Panetta
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The whole city is watching -- OK, NATO protesters, now what?
Change of SubjectMay I have your attention? That question is implied at the top of every column I write and at the beginning of every blog entry I post, as is the answer from those who read past the headlines: Yes. For...... -
Police tactics kept crowds off balance
For four days, and nearly around the clock, Chicago police guided, cajoled and blockaded roaming groups of NATO protesters, following a set of strategic goals that laid the foundation for everything they did. Keep protesters from damaging property or...
Tags: Grant Park, Garry McCarthy, Chicago Loop, Photography Supplies and Services, NATO
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Abandoning women in Afghanistan
Want to see a real "war on women?" Wait until 2014 when U.S and NATO forces effectively leave Afghanistan to the whims of the bloodthirsty Taliban. The savagery will make the alleged Republican sins against women — as politically motivated...
Tags: Civil Rights, Feminism, World War II (1939-1945), United Nations, Jan Schakowsky
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