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Museums
Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org Ongoing: "One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure": Big Bird, Elmo and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, take visitors on a journey to learn about the Big Dipper, North...Tags: Metra, Skyline (movie), Michigan Avenue, Hull House, Architecture
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Andy Brown, Nicholas Payton, Wynton Marsalis hit Chicago
Inspiring music-making isn't necessarily loud, aggressive, self-aggrandizing or heavily promoted. Consider what happens early every Wednesday night at Andy's Jazz Club, where the superb but serenely understated Chicago guitarist Andy Brown leads a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Plymouth, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Culture, Donald Lawrence
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Using art in the streets to combat violence
Some believe the solution to neighborhood violence is increased police presence and arrests. For others, it's teaching parents how to raise respectful children. And then there is a small cadre of idealists who believe all it takes is art. After all,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Little Village, Sculpture, Artists
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Preckwinkle to announce re-election campaign
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will launch her re-election bid Tuesday, saying she wants another four years to try to reform the way the county locks up adult and juvenile criminal defendants and to get more people out to the forest...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Rahm Emanuel, Timothy O. Schneider, Finance
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Cook County Forest Preserve District celebrates centennial with several projects
The Forest Preserve District of Cook County plans to celebrate its centennial for the next three years, bringing new and renovated campgrounds and interactive online maps and apps to county residents. The projects, which also include a new logo, updated...
Tags: Forestry and Timber, Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Illinois General Assembly, Cook County Government
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You have the keys to the city
At the Chicago Cultural Center, a young intern is stationed behind a tabletop model of downtown Chicago, miniature buildings made of painted wood blocks, old salt shakers and other odds and ends. There's even a tiny plastic cow. When people walk by, she...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Media Industry, Architecture
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Rick Kogan is feeling festive about Chicago
That annual buffet of words called Printer's Row Lit Fest — I will always prefer its original name, Printers Row Book Fair — takes place Saturday and Sunday, with more than 250 authors spread across 200-some talks, performances, conversations,...Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, Michigan Avenue, Book, Authors
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More spontaneity
Sunday: TOSS! workshop with Crookedworks: New Orleans-based design firm Crookedworks leads an all-ages DIY workshop on how to build beneficial bird habitat from salvaged urban debris. June 15: Make Way for People Bike Tour: As part of Bike to Work Week,... -
Classical Corner
Baroque Band: David Schrader is harpsichord soloist for the Chicago period-instrument ensemble's season finale, which holds works by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Telemann and Rameau. 7:30 p.m. Friday at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500...Tags: Arts and Culture, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Civic Opera House
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Jazz, Israeli style, sweeps into Chicago
What does Israeli jazz sound like? It's experimental and traditional, edgy and relaxed, forward-looking and retrospective. The music of this cosmopolitan culture, in other words, proves as stylistically wide-ranging as you might hope of a Middle...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Old Town School of Folk Music, Science and Technology, Music Industry, Music
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Israeli Jazz Festival brings Middle Eastern sounds to Chicago
Though its population hovers at just 8 million, Israel has become a powerhouse in nurturing high-caliber jazz talent. Chicago concertgoers are well acquainted with Anat Cohen, the uncommonly versatile Israeli clarinetist who's based in New York and...
Tags: Plymouth, Arts and Culture, Old Town School of Folk Music, Culture, Music Industry
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In 'Roadkill' and 'h.g.,' powerful shows for small audiences
Tribune criticThere's nothing new in Chicago about theater in small spaces — that's a crucial part of the city's aesthetic. If you glance at my recommended shows, you'll see several pieces staged in theaters with fewer than 100 seats, including "Rabbit,"...Tags: Arts and Culture, Navy Pier, Chicago Humanities Festival, Rentals, Celebrities
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