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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: Field Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn (New York City), Museum of Science and Industry, Adler Planetarium, Yosemite National Park
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Power is on at ZooLights in Lincoln Park and Brookfield Zoo's Holiday Magic
You can call it humbuggery, but I had a pretty low-voltage reaction to ZooLights the first time I went to see it, probably 10 years ago. I remember at the Lincoln Park Zoo's holiday season tribute to luminescence some lights in trees and some animal...
Tags: Festive Events, Travel, Religious Festivals, Family, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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'Boss' filming wraps in Chicago, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis coming to Wrigley Field, Pitchfork sightings
If you followed Kelsey Grammer’s time in the Chicago area filming Season 2 of cable network Starz’s “Boss,” you likely know the five-time Emmy-winning actor had his wife’s name tattooed on his hip in April at Insight...
Tags: Miami Marlins, Zack Snyder, Tom Kane, National Basketball Association, Shameless (tv program)
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Teen poet thirsts for knowledge
Malcolm London is young, black and talented, and that is a guarantee of nothing these days. But he says, "I do not do what I do for money. I come from a place with no money and don't expect I will ever have a lot of it. But I think that being a teacher...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Satellite and Cable Service, Movies, Entertainment, African-American History Month
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Remarkable Woman: Sunny Fischer
When Sunny Fischer was 4, her family moved into a new apartment with a shiny stove and easy access to green space and playgrounds. "The schools were great — I had terrific teachers," Fischer says. "There was a library within the development that I...
Tags: Ethics, Values, Public Housing, Marcello Mastroianni, Housing and Urban Planning
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Yearly picnic thrilled thousands of kids
Chicago Tribune reporterAt a time when automobiles were rare but orphans were plentiful, a tradition began in Chicago to bring them together. The idea was simple: Why shouldn't a needy kid get to enjoy an automobile ride and fun picnic in the park? In 1904, five children from a...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Automotive Equipment, Services and Shopping, Rogers Park, Grant Park
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"JoJo" finds mojo at Brookfield Zoo
WGNTV NEWSThe silverback gorilla named "JoJo" finds his "mojo" at the Brookfield Zoo. The 32 year-old was sent there from the Lincoln Park Zoo to accomplish once crucial task: Help expand the critically endangered western lowland gorilla species. During the...Tags: Health Treatments, Health, Birth Control, Brookfield Zoo, Family Planning
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Snakes on a plain: Lincoln Park Zoo re-populates species
The people, mostly from the partnering Lincoln Park Zoo and Lake County Forest Preserve District, were scientists, public-relations specialists, photojournalists, even an intern, all of them, at times, watching the reptiles like hawks, though with the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, McHenry, Zoology, Science and Technology
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December highlights: Things to do to close out the year
If you're not going somewhere for the holidays this December, chances are someone will be coming to you. And if that's not the case either, well, you'll still need to be entertained, dammit. Here are some of the December highlights we've rounded up,...Tags: Services and Shopping, Religious Festivals, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Disc Jockeys
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A procrastinator's guide to making the holidays count
The holidays always seem to come too soon and leave too early. One minute you're wailing that the stores are playing "Jingle Bell Rock" at Halloween, the next you're whimpering that it's Jan. 2 and you never really felt the holiday spirit. By "you," I...
Tags: Cloud Gate, Halloween, Religious Festivals, Holidays, Millennium Park
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Chicago, Tanzania's tie
For a series starting in Sunday's Tribune, Tribune reporter Steve Johnson and photographer Chris Sweda traveled to Tanzania to report on efforts to eradicate rabies. Steve explains why: “I was intrigued to learn that what most people think of as a...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Vaccines, Rabies, Preventative Medicine, Tanzania
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Chicagoan saves one dog at a time from rabies in Africa
NANGALE, Tanzania — Only about half the dogs Anna Czupryna is studying in Tanzania have names. Dogs are different here. They are foragers and night watchmen who are treated more like livestock than pets. But when the dogs of north-central Tanzania...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Rogers Park, Preventative Medicine, Research
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