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Hubbard Street plans work about Chagall windows
Sid Smith, Special to the Tribune
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will celebrate its 35th anniversary this fall with its first-ever full-length production, an original work by resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, inspired by another local treasure, Marc Chagall's "America...
An invitation to join us at Chicago Live! in Pipers Alley
Rick Kogan
I grew up three blocks from Piper’s Alley in Old Town, the new home for Chicago Live!, which begins its eight-week winter season Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. As many of you know, and I was glad to see you in the audience, I previously hosted the show for...
Mourners gather for Maggie Daley wake, visitation
Dan Hinkel
As hymns sung by a small choir echoed off stone walls, former Mayor Richard M. Daley stood for hours in front of his wife's copper-colored casket to shake hands and accept kisses on the cheek from powerful acquaintances and ordinary strangers.  The wake...
Maggie Daley 1943-2011: Chicago's longtime first lady
Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune reporter
Maggie Daley, who dedicated herself to children's issues and the arts while also zealously guarding her family's privacy during 22 years as Chicago's first lady, died on Thursday, Nov. 24, more than nine years after she was diagnosed with breast...
Former Chicago First Lady Maggie Daley dies at 68; 'She was an inspiration for all of us'
Rick Kogan
Maggie Daley, who dedicated herself to children’s issues and the arts while also zealously guarding her family’s privacy during 22 years as Chicago’s First Lady, died a little after 6 p.m. Thursday, more than nine years after she was diagnosed with breast...
Occupy Chicago arrests are seen as a trial run for international summits to come next year
Kristen Mack, Dahleen Glanton and Becky Schlikerman, Tribune reporters
With two international summits coming to Chicago in just seven months, the city got a chance to conduct a trial run early Sunday in arresting a large group of protesters without it escalating into violence.  Throughout Saturday evening, police remained in...
Chicago starts replacing lights that have shrouded city in orange glow
Staff report
Almost four decades after the orange glow first took over Chicago’s night skies, the city’s Transportation Department is taking steps toward converting streetlights back to a more natural -- and less light-polluting -- hue.  New ceramic metal-halide...
The Beatles invade Chicago
Stephan Benzkofer
When you dive into the Tribune's coverage of the Beatles in 1964, you find fear.  Fear about the hair, the strange music and the screaming.  The hair was an affront; the mop-topped four sported a sheep-dog look that was ridiculed mercilessly. Bob Hope...
City dedicates library to former Mayor Daley
John Byrne
Chicago officials on Thursday continued the time-honored tradition of imprinting the city’s public buildings with the names of former leaders, dedicating the Richard M. Daley public library in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood.It could be the first of...
Top off summer style with classic hat
Ellen Warren
Think about it, fellas. How many times are you stopped on the street by a complete stranger who tells you you're looking great.  Never, you say?  Put on a distinctive hat this summer and I guarantee you'll acquire an instant fashion fan club. ...
A truly foul, nasty river  ran through it
Michael Hawthorne, Tribune reporter
Cleaning up the Chicago River, a waterway engineered to flow backward and lined with dozens of sewage pipes, has always been a tough fight.  At the turn of the last century, officials reversed the river and started sending Chicago's waste toward the...
City building commission overstated money to minority firms by 40 percent
Hal Dardick and John Byrne
A city agency that oversees hundreds of millions of dollars of construction projects “grossly overstated” the amount paid out to certified minority contractors in 2009, according to a report issued today by the city’s top internal watchdog.The Public...
AT PEACE, AT LAST: AFTER 11 YEARS AND AN EMOTIONAL PARADE, VIETNAM VETS FINALLY FEEL WELCOME
William Mullen
This story by William Mullen orginally ran in the Aug. 17, 1986, Tribune Sunday Magazine.   At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 13, three men left the entrance to Navy Pier and began moving west along Grand Avenue. The three were old soldiers, the...
Full listing of the authors appearing at Printers Row Lit Fest 2011
We will release names of authors scheduled to participate in Lit Fest 2012 as they are confirmed. Check back to see who is scheduled to speak at this year's fest.   Authors A-E Authors F-J Authors K-O Authors P-T Authors U-Z Authors A-E 826CHI...
In inauguration, Emanuel steers away from Daley and sets own course
Kristen Mack and John Chase, Tribune reporters
Rahm Emanuel took control of City Hall on Monday, calling for change and challenging Chicagoans to share in the work — and the pain — that lies ahead.  On a crisp morning in picturesque Millennium Park, a landmark achievement of Richard M. Daley, the...
Rich and me: How we fell out
John Kass
For two decades you've known Richard M. Daley as mayor and boss of Chicago. As a columnist, I've been his chief critic. But there are a few things you probably don't know about the mayor and me.   I used to like him very much. And he knows it. Once he...
Daley basks in praise at his last City Council meeting
Hal Dardick and John Byrne, Tribune reporters
Chicago aldermen spent hours  Wednesday offering homages to the departing Mayor Richard Daley, lauding his civic passion, political guts and even his my-way-or-the-highway tendencies.  The abundant praise from all but a few City Council members was hardly...