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City celebrates Hanukkah happenings
Spertus Institute, other area venues help to honor Jewish holiday
The lights that line Michigan Avenue have been strung and lit. Shops have tuned their sound systems to holiday music. The horses downtown pull carriages with jingle bells tied to their collars.
It ...
O’Hare exposed
Photographs tell history, growth of international airport
It was 1984 when Robert Burley began his documentary series of O'Hare International Airport.
The operations crew drove him to places where the runways ended and the windsocks disappeared. Burley spent four years ...
Cabbie blues
Chicago taxi driver union threatens strike after fuel surcharge waived
Chicagoans celebrate peacefully
Despite concerns, Obama rally without riots
In the days leading up to then-Sen. Barack Obama’s rally, murmurs of riots circulated through office buildings, classrooms and other workplaces throughout the city. But on the actual night, the issue ...
‘Holograms,’ touch screens—too much technology
I arrived in Grant Park at 3:30 p.m. on Election Day, not only to do some early reporting, but to snag a front row seat for one of the jumbotrons that broadcasted ...
Reports from Grant Park
7:53 p.m. Despite early hesitance, the results from Penn. and Va., crowd is thinking Obama is in. People celebrating .. pushing toward Jumbotron. Portapotties are out of toilet paper, lines getting longer, ...
Wastewater Olympics no laughing matter
Water sanitation challenge brings water industry companies together from all over
The stakes were high as Ed Staudacher shouted rehearsed strategies at the Windy City Wizards from the sidelines. The team checked the oil, secured the vacuum system and eventually hooked the ...
Coitus Scene
In a recent post on Gizmodo.com, a website in the Gawker Network that discusses new gadgets, senior associate editor Jesus Diaz mentions a new webcam that will revolutionize the way Internet ...
Chicago 2016 launches multimedia contest
New ‘Why Chicago?’ project recruits Olympic bid supporters to submit videos for prizes
Chicago is turning to multimedia in order to gain stride in winning the 2016 Summer Olympics bid on Oct. 2, 2009-when the champion city will be announced.
A recently launched program, called Why ...
Staff Playlist
1. "I Don't Care" by Fall Out Boy
2. "Beware! Cougar!" by The Academy Is ...
3. "Gives You Hell" by The All-American Rejects
4. "Vanished" by Armor for Sleep
-J. Lendman
1. "The Sound of Silence" ...
CTA joins iGo for ‘green’ venture
New Smart Card allows access to CTA vehicles, iGo rentable cars
Not owning a car in the city has just become a whole lot easier.
The CTA and iGo Car Sharing announced Oct. 10 they will begin a new partnership encouraging commuters to leave ...
New eco-friendly Chipotle opens in Chicago suburb
Recycled materials, water-efficient appliciances featured at restaurant chain
Giant stuffed burrito fans in suburban Chicago can now say they've given back to the environment.
A new Chipotle location in Gurnee, Ill., features a 6-kilowatt wind turbine and other green initiatives that ...
‘It’s pubes with heart’
The Chronicle talks to Sarah Silverman about comedy show’s season 3 premiere
Sarah Silverman gives birth, experiences being homeless and ditches all her friends for better ones in the new season of her show, The Sarah Silverman Program, which premieres Oct. 8 on Comedy ...
Fans, bars react to alcohol ban
Seventh-inning ban gets cheers and jeers in Wrigleyville
Throughout the summer and fall months, bars around Wrigley Field are filled at least once a week with Cubs fans who either couldn’t get tickets to the game across the street or ...
Scoop in the Loop
A new study released by the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 28 reported that Chicago-area residents face some of the highest risks of getting sick from pollution.
Coincidentally, this report came just nine days ...
Brett and Butter
I thought it used to be just me, the weird one who did it. But lately, I don't seem like the only one.
After asking to use the bathroom at a friend's house ...