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Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood is known for its vintage apartments and Victorian houses, its proximity to Loyola University Chicago, and its independent spirit. Read about Rogers Park
Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood is known for its vintage apartments and Victorian houses, its proximity to Loyola University Chicago, and its independent spirit. Read about Rogers Park
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Loyal to Loyola
Michael Quinlan was 18 years old, a broke college student at Loyola University Chicago, when a fraternity brother suggested his mother might be able to help Quinlan get a job.
The mother was the secretary for Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, and...Tags: University of Chicago, Graduation, McDonald's, Ray Kroc, Colleges and Universities
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Granville Red Line station closes this weekend
One of seven North Side CTA stations scheduled to be closed for renovation this year shut late Friday night. The Granville station closed for six weeks just before midnight Friday for improvements such as platform repairs, new lighting and doors -- the...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority
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Catholic schools at a crossroads
If what has happened to St. Scholastica Academy in Rogers Park illustrates the grand rise and decline of Catholic schooling over the past century, supporters hope Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Pilsen is more telling of its future.
St. Scholastica, a...Tags: Elementary Schools, High Schools, Pilsen, Christianity, Chicago Tribune
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State Office Candidates File Before Friday Deadline
Channel 2 NewsState office candidates rushed to file for this year’s primary elections Friday, producing several surprises before a 5 p.m. filing deadline. Fifty-nine of the state Legislature’s 60 seats -- all 40 House seats and 19 of 20 Senate seats...Tags: Don Young, Reggie Joule, Lyman Hoffman, Sarah Palin, Jim McDermott
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Who says you can't go home again?
President Barack Obama delighted in the prospect of sleeping in his own bed Friday night, after his Kenwood neighborhood was securely tucked in by the police and Secret Service.
Obama arrived in Chicago about 4:30 p.m. for three campaign fundraisers,...Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Mayor, Pat Quinn, Chicago Tribune, White House
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Q&A: Nick Offerman on his Chicago days
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between Nick Offermanand his “Parks and Recreation” character Ron Swanson. Both talk in a slow, deep, deadpan manner and are unabashedly masculine. And, like Swanson, Offerman is an expert...
Tags: Amy Poehler, Colleges and Universities, Comedy (genre), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Harold Pinter
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Heartache as academy closes doors
Commencement at St. Scholastica Academy has been a day brimming with anticipation for generations of women — both on the stage and in the audience.
Mothers and grandmothers who graduated from the all-girls Roman Catholic school decades earlier...Tags: Teachers, Graduation, Separation of Church and State, Judaism, Christianity
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Authors H-L
Alyson Hagy In conversation with Eric Banks and Susan Nusser, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, University Center/River Room. Panelist, with Jonathan Evison, Larry Watson and Terese Svoboda, moderated by Steve Mills, 4 p.m. Saturday, Grace Place/2nd Floor. Alyson...Tags: Teachers, Wailin Wong, The Second City, Harold Washington Library Center, Philip Glass
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Chicago's first Veggie Pride Parade promotes diet, lifestyle
Chicago's vegetarians are following in the footsteps of the gay community by hosting their first annual "Veggie Pride Parade" at noon this Saturday, June 2. The parade, which leaves from the corner of Columbus Drive and Balbo Ave. and travels throughout...
Tags: New York City, Entertainment Events, Festive Events, Vegetarian Diet, Gay Pride San Diego
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Lawsuits challenge Illinois gay marriage ban
The gay and lesbian civil rights movement in Illinois has long worked on forging a legislative path to marriage equality, buoyed last year by the passage of a law allowing same-sex civil unions. But with uncertainty about a gay marriage bill moving...
Tags: Lawyers, Trials, Regional Authority, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Barack Obama
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Person struck, killed by Metra train on Union Pacific North Line
Metra trains were delayed more than two hours on the Union Pacific North Line after a person was struck and killed by a train near the Ravenswood stop on the North Side this afternoon, officials said. The person was hit and killed about 4:30 p.m. by...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Union Pacific Corporation, Metra
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Rush-hour fire snarls 'L' service
All CTA trains on the Red, Brown and Purple lines north of downtown were halted for nearly three hours at the height of the evening rush Tuesday because of an extra-alarm fire that broke out in a furniture store along the tracks near DePaul University....
Tags: Fires, Chicago Transit Authority, Union Pacific Corporation, Heavy Engineering, Chicago Fire Department
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