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Illinoisans grapple with array of issues
Associated Press WriterAn Air Force officer hopes universal health care never takes flight, equating it with socialism. A grape grower worries about the squeeze from the flagging U.S. economy. A 21-year-old student doesn't have a pet issue, cynically wondering if any of it...Tags: National Government, Ethanol, Sarah Palin, Executive Branch, Defense
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Weekend Athlete: Chrysler PT Cruiser Redux
KickingTiresAwhile back, I tested the Chrysler PT Cruiser and folded the rear seats only partially before I put all my toys in. This creates a load floor that's not level, which I didn't like. Readers correctly pinged me about not......Tags: Camille Pissarro, Vehicles
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What Led Sarah Vowell To 17th-Century Puritans?
The Washington PostAsk Sarah Vowell a simple question — like, say, "What turned you into the kind of person who would immerse yourself in the writings of 17th-century New England Puritans and write a book about them?" — and within five minutes she's telling...Tags: National Government, Riverhead (Riverhead, Suffolk, New York), Pixar, James Abram Garfield, Massachusetts
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The Big 10 college towns for tourists
Special to the Chicago TribuneDon't fall into the college travel trap. Nowhere on the sheepskin is it written that when visiting offspring already on campus or traveling with them to choose a college, the folks who pay for the college years must be tied to a dingy motel or dine on...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Books, Executive Branch, University of Iowa, Chicago Botanic Garden
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Play dates
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. 10th Annual Serve and Receive Pro-Am Tournament: Meet ESPN commentator and former top-ranked tennis player Jim Courier during dinner ($100) and a benefit tourney ($300) between teams...Tags: Tennis, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Football, Garfield Park Conservatory, National Museum of Mexican Art
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Museums
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum: 'Fly Me to the Moon': An animated 3-D movie in the Adler's new Universe Theater about three flies who tag along on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the...Tags: Natural Disasters, National Museum of Mexican Art, Garfield Park Conservatory, David Johnson, Books
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Art guide
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. Alan G. Artner's Picks Focus: Vincent Fecteau New Work: The San Francisco artist presents eight highly personal tabletop sculptures of papier mache, all painted and eccentric in form;...Tags: Arts, Illinois, Sculpture, Personal Service, Boeing Co.
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The whole art world was watching
Chicago Tribune critic"1968: Art and Politics in Chicago" at the DePaul University Art Museum is the first significant look back at several exhibitions from the years surrounding the '68 Democratic National Convention and a hard act to follow for any other show of political...Tags: Ray Johnson, John Miller, Ad Reinhardt, Arts, Robert Motherwell
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New Allentown Art Musem director wants to expose more of its treasures
Of The Morning CallNine months have passed since Gregory Perry became executive director of the Allentown Art Museum, and he still hasn't changed the paintings in his office. Frankly, he likes the Colonial and American Impressionist works chosen by his predecessor, David...Tags: Allentown Art Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak Park, Facebook, Madonna
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Hidden gems in obvious places
Chicago Tribune reporterEver wondered what's inside the "Bean" in Millennium Park? Photographer Jan Theun van Rees did. And he talked his way inside the mammoth sculpture and took a photo. Turns out, the empty innards of the Bean look like the inside of a curling wave made out...Tags: Chicago River, Soldier Field, Sears Tower, Tadao Ando, University of Chicago
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Cartier-Bresson's early work —plus inspirations—on display
Chicago Tribune critic"Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris," the Art Institute of Chicago's illuminating exhibition observing the centenary of the birth of the lensman, is a show of 55 photographs, prints and drawings that, in a sense, was decades in the...Tags: Eugene Atget, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Kids, get out of the hole
Chicago Tribune correspondentNEW YORK — With a new addition that doubles its size, the Brooklyn Children's Museum — the world's oldest museum dedicated to youngsters—has transformed itself from a shrinking violet that barely poked its head out of the ground into a...Tags: Television Industry, Brooklyn (New York City), Metal and Mineral, Navy Pier, Grant Park
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