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The Water Tower
Tribune staff reporterBritish critic Oscar Wilde, on a brief, unhappy swing through Chicago, called the Water Tower (not Water Tower Place, the shopping mall, but Water Tower, the water tower) at Michigan and Chicago Avenues, "a monstrosity with pepper boxes stuck all over it....Tags: Water Tower Place, Water Supply
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The `L'
This story contains corrected material, published Aug. 26, 2005. A train that rumbles through the sky -- how wonderful is that? The elevated is never called anything but the "El" or, in print at this paper, the "L." You hate the thing when you're...Tags: Nelson Algren, Elections, Jackson Park
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Chicago's Picasso sculpture
Chicago TribuneJust after noon, Mayor Richard J. Daley pulled a cord attached to 1,200 square feet of blue-green fabric, unwrapping a gift "to the people of Chicago" from an artist who had never visited--and had shown no previous interest in--the city. The artist was...Tags: Richard J. Daley, Justice System, Indiana, Chicago Tribune, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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The Chicago Water Tower
Chicago TribuneFor a city that sits beside one of the world's largest sources of fresh water, Chicago's drinking water in its early years was scandalously bad. The water, drawn mainly from the Chicago River, which was also the city's sewer, at best tasted foul and at...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Water Supply
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Who has stayed where in Chicago? Naming names
Chicago TribuneHotel managers, ever the souls of discretion, are loath to reveal the names of celebrity guests. But from various sources, here's a sampling of who has stayed where: Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, 120 E. Delaware Pl.— Julia Roberts, Faith Hill,...Tags: Justin Timberlake, Pearl Jam (music group), Kid Rock, Mariah Carey, Eva Longoria
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Loyola's new museum fills need for neutrality
Tribune art criticThis week the Loyola University Museum of Art will open on North Michigan Avenue, and because it is dedicated to "the spiritual in art" and next year will have an exhibition on the Dalai Lama, my fancy is that this small new art museum is a Buddhist...Tags: Holy Name Cathedral, Magnificent Mile, Education, Colleges and Universities, Arts
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HIGH ANXIETY
Tribune architecture criticChicago has long been a city of cloud busting skyscrapers, but its latest push toward the sky is enough to make jaws drop, eyes pop and start alarm bells ringing. Every week, it seems, a rendering of a new tower is splashed across the front page or the...Tags: River North, Chicago Loop, Millennium Park, Chicago Skyline, Travel
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'Hephaestus' brings the circus up close
Tribune arts criticLookingglass Theatre Company made its name and deserved reputation by doing physical theater, especially intensely acrobatic stagings of classic texts. But there's a difference — a world of difference —between legitimate actors who studied movement in...Tags: Music Theater, Michigan Avenue, Blue Man Group, Theater, Cirque du Soleil
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5/12: Book 'Michelle Style'
Staff reporterBook signing: Thursday, May 14 6-8 PM White House Black Market Water Tower: 835 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago (877) 452-6633 To purchase a copy of the book: Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion America once again has a newly-...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Barack Obama, Periodicals, Michelle Obama, Crimes
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Steppenwolf, 'Wicked' top Jeff Award nominees
Tribune arts criticBelying its reputation for conservatism, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee lauded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's controversial production of "The Pain and the Itch" in its annual but unusually expansive list of nominations, released Monday....Tags: Water Tower Place, Music Theater, Victory Gardens Theatre, Sports, Ana Gasteyer
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May 12 - Great Chicago Fire Photo Exhibit
Staff reporterPHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871 Exhibition at the Historic Water Tower, 806 N. Michigan Avenue April 3 - August 23, 2009 The City Gallery is open seven days a week, Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 6:30 pm, and Sunday, 10 am - 5...Tags: Great Chicago Fire (1871), Banking, Water Supply, Sports, Culture
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High-wire act
Special to the TribuneWith its self-seriousness and new-age spectacle--plus a conspicuous lack of animals--Montreal's Cirque du Soleil has revolutionized the very concept of a circus show. Here in Chicago, in the years since the Cirque phenomenon hit critical mass,...Tags: Family, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Music Theater, Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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