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Columbia gala honors John Bryan
Special to Tribune NewspapersColumbia College's Open Doors Gala brought out more than 300 of our town's notables for a black-tie event at the college's Jeanne Gang-designed Media Production Center on Dec. 7. The sold-out evening honored John H. Bryan with the Chicago Legacy Award....Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Human Interest, Chicago Mayor, Columbia College Chicago, Education
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Frangos no longer have the folkloric taste of Chicago
A friend recently gave me something I hadn't received for Christmas in a very long time. "Frangos!" I exclaimed. "I haven't had Frangos in forever." I stripped away the shiny gift wrap, and it was like opening a door to Christmas past. A dark green...
Tags: Santa Claus (fictional character), Richard M. Daley, Macy's, Holidays, O'Hare International Airport
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Man who disappeared at Loop Macy's found safe
-------------------- UPDATE: A man who had disappeared from the Loop Macy's store Friday has been found safe and has been reunited with his family, police said. No other details were available. -------------------- Chicago police are asking for the...
Tags: Macy's
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The Field Girls' Book and Social Club
About our club We are the Field Girls' Book and Social Club. The club started six years ago when we were all Marshall Field's employees. We have 15 members, but we have about eight members at each meeting. We meet at a member's home once every other...
Tags: Suzanne Collins
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A razor-sharp barber, keen on magic
Where exactly to start? Cesar Juarez has had such a full and interesting life that one might begin telling his story during any of the 64 years he has spent on this planet. But let's start with the present, or, precisely, one recent late afternoon, as...
Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Photography, Rick Kogan, Robert Zemeckis, Arts
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Remarkable Woman: Elaine Silets
If Elaine Silets ever writes her autobiography — and we can only hope she does, and soon — it will have to be published in a couple of volumes. The woman has stories. Born in Chicago to a lawyer father (the Marx Brothers were among his...
Tags: Neiman Marcus, World War II (1939-1945), Railway Transportation, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts
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Interview: Jeremy Piven coming back from London for benefit
If there ever was a year when Jeremy Piven could be excused for missing the annual Piven Theatre Workshop Gala — which benefits the theater his mother Joyce and late father Byrne founded in Evanston 41 years ago — it would be this one. The...
Tags: Celebrities, Joan Cusack, Downton Abbey (tv program), Jeremy Piven, Arts and Culture
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Pump Room is primed & ready
The Pump Room is back, baby. The ghosts of former habitues Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart and untold others can revel in a revamped dining room that's as relevant for today's restaurant patron as the original Pump Room was for the celebrities of...Tags: Celebrities, Dining and Drinking, Pump Room, New York City, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Renaissance Chicago offers overnight downtown shopping package
Tribune newspapersChicago suburbanites are one of the most important markets for the downtown hotels, and the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel is offering a package tailored to those folks as the shopping season descends. The Chicago Escape! Shopping Package includes...Tags: Macy's, Inc., Chicago Hotels
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175 years of memorable, horrible, humorous and remarkable events that shaped Chicago
On March 4, 1837, exactly 175 years ago, Chicago was incorporated. Not that Flashback needed a reason, but we took this occasion to compile a very long list of events, year by year and decade by decade, that helped shape this great city. Some events...
Tags: Butch O'Hare, Miami Heat, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Navy Pier, Local Government
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When Sears, the Facebook of its era, launched its IPO
Even people who don't play the market are thinking this week about buying stock in Facebook's initial public offering of shares.
One hundred six years ago, Sears, Roebuck and Co. was its era's version of a hot tech company. Like Facebook, Apple or...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Facebook, World War II (1939-1945), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Social Media
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Remarkable Woman: Cynthia Rowley
Before Barrington native Cynthia Rowley earned fame as a fashion designer, she endured a phase of infamy at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
"I actually got booted out of my junior show — not that I'm still holding a grudge or anything,"...Tags: Cynthia Rowley, Human Interest, Arts, Arts and Culture, Winston Churchill
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