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Happy hour ahoy!
Chicago's various cruise lines ply the waters of Lake Michigan and the Chicago River pretty much year round (until the river freezes over, at least) during the day, evening and even midnight. But when the long nights of summer arrive, an additional option...
Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Architecture, Chicago River, Armed Forces
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Prepare to sip, swirl and swallow at gourmet fest
A few things you should know about the fourth annual Chicago Gourmet, which returns to Millennium Park: Times, dates: Noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 24; noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 25 What you'll pay: One-day admission is $150; two days, $250. Saturday has already sold...Tags: Seasons Restaurant, Alcoholic Beverages, Chicago Restaurants, Chicago Gourmet
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Go on, take a bite
The fifth annual Chicago Gourmet (full name: Bon Appetit Presents Chicago Gourmet) will take place Sept. 29 and 30 in Millennium Park. Hundreds of Chicagoans and visitors will be there; here are five reasons to be one of them. It's worth the splurge:...
Tags: Cloud Gate, Blackbird, Restaurants, Bars and Clubs, Rick Bayless
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What statement did the 'American Gothic' knockoff make about public art?
It's not a shocker, really, that the figures lifted from one of American art's most famous images and made enormous and three-dimensional have proved so popular. There is something both surprising and pleasing about encountering God Bless America, J....
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Museums, Arts and Culture, Wrigley Building, Genres
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Sinfonietta premieres evocations of Chicago's dynamic skyline, in sound
If the Chicago Symphony Orchestra can celebrate the power of rivers, why can't the Chicago Sinfonietta do the same on behalf of cities? The parallel may not have occured to Mei-Ann Chen when she was planning her season finale with the sinfonietta, but...
Tags: Renzo Piano, Architecture, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Entertainment Events
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The 'Boss' returns, for better and worse
Meet the new "Boss," almost the same as the old "Boss." This works without qualification as a line in a Who song about teenage rebellion. Applied to the TV series about the autocratic Chicago ruler played by Kelsey Grammer, it is both good and bad....
Tags: Elections, Dwayne Johnson, Connie Nielsen, Nicole Forester, Kelsey Grammer
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Jeremy Pelt trumpets young talent at the Showcase
Major soloists play the Jazz Showcase all the time, but something special often happens when the star shares the stage with students. The latest example came Thursday night, as trumpeter Jeremy Pelt – who has made a strong impression leading his...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Entertainment, DePaul University, Music, Music Industry
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Harvard University, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Barack Obama, Bill Daley, New Music Mondays Millenium Park
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Violence, Chicago and its storytellers
A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a broad swath of the roughly $475 million needed for Millennium Park, the biggest and most successful cultural project in Chicago since the...
Tags: Chicago Park District, The New York Times, Wicker Park, Sara Lee Corporation, Barack Obama
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Phil Vettel recommends
Now that holiday madness is upon us, here are a few rest stops whose seasonal decor will put you in a festive mood. And if not, there's always spiked eggnog.
Butch McGuire's: Division Street mayhem meets Currier & Ives at this Gold Coast watering hole,...Tags: Restaurants, Bars and Clubs, Lincoln Park Zoo, Holidays, Dining and Drinking
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Grant Park Music Festival summer season announced
Once again the Grant Park Music Festival is taking the lead among local summer festivals when it comes to presenting eclectic combinations of popular symphonic and choral fare and more adventuresome classical music programming. And it's all free. The...
Tags: Grant Park Chorus, Chicago Park District, Festive Events, Pink Martini (music group), Valentina Lisitsa
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Zigzagging along the Chicago Cultural Mile
At first glance, the Chicago Cultural Mile ("Where Culture & Commerce Meet") resembles nothing so much as a gerrymandered congressional district. According to its website, this officially arty and mercantile stretch begins at Michigan Avenue and the...
Tags: Chicago Hotels, Downtown Disney, Museums, Arts and Culture, Starbucks Corp.
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