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'Burger Land' and the Billy Goat
No one who met George Motz on the afternoon of April 19, 2003, as he bit into his first double cheeseburger in the subterranean Billy Goat Tavern on Hubbard Street — “It is incredible, everything I had heard it was. The taste is distinctive...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Charleston, Long Island, History (tv network), Hamburgers
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Mayor: Goat's head at Wrigley 'speaks for itself'
Chicago TribuneMayor Rahm Emanuel said today that a goat's head dropped off at Wrigley Field is no laughing matter, but tell that to Cubs players. "Come up with something original," scoffed Cubs pitcher Jeff Samardzija, noting that the billy goat curse against the team...Tags: Jeff Samardzija, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Cubs, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rahm Emanuel
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Sure, blame the Greek White Sox fan for Wrigley goat head prank
Whenever ethnic profiling raises its ugly head, you can usually count on a great newspaper to express its outrage. Unless the head once belonged to a goat, and said head was sent to Wrigley Field in care of Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. Then the...
Tags: Thomas Ricketts, Chicago Cubs, Carlos Marmol, Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
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Howells & Hood goes upscale on a large scale
For decades Chicago journalists' post-work watering hole of choice has been the Billy Goat Tavern, with its three beers on tap ($3.50 Schlitz and Billy Goat Dark and Lager) and $3.15 cheeseburgers just a dark stairway's descent from the Magnificent Mile's...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Millennium Park, Tribune Tower, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Twin Anchors, Harvey Keitel, Edgewater, Emma Thompson, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (movie)
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TV review: Eat (and drink) up: Bourdain takes a Chicago 'Layover'
RedEyeAnthony Bourdain still isn't a fan of deep dish pizza, but he loves Chicago. "In a town where everything is great, they're most famous for something that sucks," the chef says in the Season 2 opener of "The Layover" (8 p.m. CT Nov. 19, Travel Channel;...Tags: Stephanie Izard, Lipitor (drug), Travel Channel (tv network), Anthony Bourdain, Political Corruption
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Greg Schwem: Is it too late to reconsider Chicago's Olympic bid?
Humor HotelNow that the Olympic flame has been extinguished and the Royal Family has gone back to doing whatever it is the Royal Family does, Chicagoans such as myself can only ask, "What if?" What if Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had strutted across the stage at...Tags: YouTube, Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony, Rahm Emanuel, Table Tennis, Missy Franklin
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January 5: Author - Jon Yates, What's Your Problem
WGN NewsJon Yates To purchase a copy of the book: What's Your Problem?: Cut Through Red Tape, Challenge the System, and Get Your Money Back Signing: Tonight 6:30 p.m. Billy Goat Tavern 430 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago Jon's Tips: Resolve to fight bad...Tags: Theft, Personal Data Collection, Credit and Debt, Interior Policy, Michigan Avenue
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June 24: Lunchbreak - Lollapalooza Pops
WGN NewsRecipe Records Events: Friday, June 24 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Billy Goat Tavern Original 430 N. Michigan Ave at Lower Level Chicago (312) 222-1525 Saturday, June 25 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Potash Brothers Market 875 North State Street Chicago (888) 837-...Tags: Lollapalooza, WGN
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Cubs fans on cross-country trip with goat to break curse
CHICAGO, IL - What would you think if you saw five guys walking down the highway with a goat?! That`s exactly what folks in a handful of states saw. The group is made up of PJ Fisher, Blake Ferrell, Philip Aldrich, Kyle Townsend, Matt Gregory and Wrigley...Tags: Cancer, Chicago Cubs
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O, the stories they told
Through the rain the writers and readers and listeners came, hustling into the Museum of Contemporary Art a few Friday nights ago to be part of an evening billed as "Chicago Classics." It was the final event in the estimable, enlightening and, for its...
Tags: Columbia College Chicago, Colleges and Universities, Chicago Tribune, Arts, Festive Events
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