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Matt Weinstock, Jan. 22, 1960
The Daily MirrorInspired Night Crews The news that a $15 million Bible Storyland comparable to Disneyland will be built in Cucamonga fell with lightning and thunderbolt impact on this paper's night copy desk. And it came to pass that a wondrous spirit of helpfulness... -
Museum of Science and Industry finishes The Amazing Journey
Postcards from FloridaOn April 10, Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry is opening the final phase of its exhibit, The Amazing You. In the existing first phase, The Amazing You guests journey through the first three phases of life, from birth to adolescence. The second... -
Sevvonco keen on 'green'
Special to the TribuneScott Sevon collected a college degree 32 years ago, but he says he's been in school ever since. When he's not building new houses or remodeling old ones, he's adding to the string of acronyms behind his name that indicate he is, among other things, a...Tags: Disneyland Park, Water Restrictions, Energy Saving, Walt Disney, Leslie Mann
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Barack's rock: Michelle Obama
Tribune staff reportersThe featured speaker at a luncheon, Michelle Obama is about to ask a crowd of influential Chicago women to commit their hearts and wallets to her husband's presidential campaign. But first she's going to make sure they know that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Medical Services, Hillary Clinton, Lawyers, Career and Workplace
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Hyde Park: Grand buildings, grander sense of community
Tribune reporterThese days, it seems the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park has been put on the map as the stomping grounds of President-elect Barack Obama. There are walking tours that show off his favorite restaurants and coffee shops, magazine and newspaper...Tags: Marshall Field, Gold Coast, Barack Obama, Rentals, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Kenwood: Where past meets present
Chicago Tribune reporterTropical birds chirping. Children playing baseball and soccer in Kenwood Community Park. Students rushing off to Kenwood Academy High School. Such are the sights and sounds on a recent stroll through the Kenwood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side....Tags: Ryerson Incorporated, Kenwood, Chicago Housing Authority, Muhammad Ali, High School Sports
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Manchester's new, true grit
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterManchester, England If you live in Los Angeles long enough, you forget how intoxicating height can be. Here I was, 23 stories up in the coolest new hotel in northwestern England, looking across several counties and several centuries. The bar at the...Tags: Buzzcocks (music group), Fashion Shows, Damon Albarn, Cults and Sects, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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The Museum of Science and Industry
Tribune staff reporterA director of the Museum of Science and Industry once told the nation's industrial leaders that he hoped the museum "would never be finished." And, indeed, since its official opening on this day, this homage to the Industrial Revolution, by necessity, has...Tags: Building Material, Field Museum of Natural History, Jackson Park, World War II (1939-1945), Science and Technology
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A MUSEUM'S SECRETS
Tribune staff reporterMetal doors are easy to miss when they're sandwiched between a stagecoach and a submarine. But through this doorway at the Museum of Science and Industry -- past "Emergency Exit" and "Authorized Personnel Only" signs -- a museum within this museum...Tags: Vehicles, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, New York, Thomas Edison, Richard J. Daley
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Garden smarts for free
Wish you could get a little more gardening know-how under your belt, but feel reluctant to part with your hard-earned cash to do so? Save your budget for spring planting. We went looking around the Chicago area and found that there's a lot of garden...Tags: Jackson Park, Wilmette, Dining and Drinking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
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What makes this garden think it's so SMART?
Those stately bur oaks have seen a lot of bright ideas. In 1893, they shared the glow when brand-new electric lights illuminated the White City. Now they overlook green roofs, LED lamps, rain barrels and a bioswale. Beneath their boughs spreads the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Education, Energy Saving, Arable Farming, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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What do you love and hate?
May 21, 2009 I LOVE ... ... the colorful spring flowers planted at City Hall and the Daley Center. It gives me a "lift." -- Barbara Rieffel, Chicago . . . Phil, the Navy Pier trolley driver, who befriends every passenger and is such a wonderful...Tags: Rivers, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Bill Daley, Cucumbers, Chicago White Sox
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