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At the Lincoln Park Zoo, camping out under the monkeys
The campfire was in a metal pit, under a great, wide roof. The tents were pitched on a well-tended lawn, with help from people who work for an outdoors store. Bears were a threat only if someone had forgotten to lock an enclosure door. And dinner was...
Tags: Adler Planetarium, Brookfield Zoo, Brooklyn (New York City), Yosemite National Park, Lincoln Park Zoo
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Walgreen company man rises to top
Tribune staff reporterGreg Wasson gambled away a total of about $60 during the 2 1/2 years he lived in Las Vegas. All of it came while he was parked at some low-stakes slot machine, waiting for his out-of-town guests to wrap up their requisite casino visit. Wasson, 53,...Tags: CVS Corp., Morningstar Incorporated, Corporate Officers, Health and Medical Professionals, Prescription Drugs
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Winter agenda: Events for the season
STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, “Schooner”...
Tags: Christkindlmarket Chicago, Jams and Jellies, Ravinia Park, Entertainment, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character)
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Gaming grows up: A video game revolution
The video game is 40. Its exact birthday is arguable. Cultural historians likely would date its origins further back, roughly a decade or two; prototypes of arcade games flourished in university computer labs in the 1950s. But “Pong,” the...
Tags: Citizen Kane (movie), Newspaper and Magazine, Wii, The Beach Boys, Nintendo Company Ltd.
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Trail camera captures rare photo of cougar
Tribune reporterAfter Mark Cobb and his 12-year-old son Matthew finished an early morning deer hunting trip Sunday, he sat at the kitchen table and checked pictures from one of his two trail cameras, hoping they would show a prized buck he could track. As Cobb, 50, of...Tags: Springfield, Southern Illinois University, Hunting, Roscoe Village, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Field Museum and Oriental Institute launch bird exhibits
Taxidermy is not front and center at the Oriental Institute Museum's new ornithological exhibition That art form is better observed to the north, at the Field Museum, where the institution's Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds has recently been...Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, University of Chicago, The Oriental Institute, Arts
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Field Museum tells opulent story of India's maharajas
Chicago Tribune reporterA seldom-explored aspect of Indian culture and history is getting some much-deserved exposure at Chicago's Field Museum. "Maharaja: The Splendor of India's Royal Courts," opening Wednesday and running through Feb. 3, tells the story of these rulers...Tags: India, Arts and Culture, Museums, Business Enterprises, Music
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Touring exhibit for the birds
Staff reportsA touring exhibition coming to Ellendale, N.D., shows dozens of ways of looking at birds through paintings, photographs, prints, video, and electronic media, according to a news release. “Winged Shadows: Life Among Birds” opens Friday...Tags: Arts and Culture, Theodore Roosevelt, Museums, Electronics, Science and Technology
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Spiders attacking downtown high-rises? Not so fast
Arachnophobic Chicagoans want to hear "flying" and "spider" in the same sentence probably as much as "ketchup" and "hot dog." But that's the phrase that the bug-squeamish have been treated to this week, when a note posted to guests at the Hilton Chicago...
Tags: Magnificent Mile, Willis Tower
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Field Museum birds are in fine feather
A good museum is constantly revising and reinventing itself. So it is that the Field's newly named Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds reopened Tuesday after an extensive renovation. This mecca of bird-watching (stuffed-and-mounted division) still...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Museum Dioramas
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Designer Maria Pinto creates chic fashion boutique in Field Museum collection
There's even a pair of (very) hot pants on display that look like they could be worn Saturday night at (fill in the name of whatever Chicago club is "happening" these days). Here's the catch to the shorts, though. They're made of sealskin. They're...
Tags: Michelle Obama, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Museums, Arts
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Retiring Field Museum, Adler Planetarium presidents give their final thoughts
This autumn and early winter will see the biggest change in Chicago's Museum Campus since Lake Shore Drive took a hard swing to the west to create the parkland connection of cultural institutions 14 years ago. This time, though, the alteration is not one...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Wrigley Field, Museums, Shedd Aquarium, Arts
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Original site for Field Museum of Natural History topic gallery.