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Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2017
Chicago police have solved less than 20 percent of the murders committed in 2017, and other news

Also, 12 museums are offering free admission for CPS students this week.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Police Department, gun violence, murders, Illinois General Assembly, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Bruce Rauner, Toni Preckwinkle, sweetened beverage tax, soda tax, pop tax, Cook County, Little Village Chamber of Commerce, immigration issues, Breitbart, Joe Walsh, Adler Planetarium, Field Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Shedd Aquarium, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago History Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Lincoln Park Zoo, DuSable Museum of African American History, National Museum of Mexican Art, Lady Gaga, the Crib, homeless shelters, Wrigley Field, Cynthia Germanotta, Born This Way Foundation

City Life, Space Mar 20, 2017
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A wondrous world of nature hides in plain sight at the Chicago Academy of Sciences collections facility

The natural history haven in North Center contains nearly 300,000 specimens that document the biodiversity of the midwest, Illinois, and greater North America.
- By Laura Pearson
- Tags: Space, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, collections facility, specimens, lepidoptera, Robert Kennicott, ornithology, Benjamin Gault, naturalist, herpetologist, natural history, Ravenswood, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2016
Photos return expired birds to flight at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

"Broken Journey" is a new exhibit of Art Fox's snapshots of flying animals indirectly felled by Chicago's citizens.
- By Kate Sierzputowski
- Tags: Arts, Environment, Visual Art, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Broken Journey, Art Fox, birds, photography, songbirds, Steven Sullivan, Chicago Bird Collision Monitors

Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 3, 2014
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The natural selection of Jenny Kendler

Artist and environmental activist Jenny Kendler makes complex work about the weird relationship between humans and the natural world. And she has just found a bigger platform as the first-ever artist in residence for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Feature, Jenny Kendler, artists, environmental activists, paintings, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, volcano rabbit, species, extinction, E.O. Wilson, Edward Abbey, conservation movement, Marfa Dialogues, climate change, Saint Louis, monarch butterflies, milkweed, CAC, Chicago Artists Coalition, lichen, installations, John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Airways, Operation Migration, whooping cranes, Thomas Nagel, essays, philosophy, West Town, Los Angeles, foraging, mulberries, daylilies, saskatoons, Salt Point State Park, Richmond, Virginia, environmentalists, San Luis Obispo, Nature Conservancy, Salt Lake City, secular humanists, Mormons, solar power, naturalist artists, naturalists, David Abram, Maryland Institute College of Art, SAIC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, collage, drawing, subjugation, natural world, female body, Endangered Species Print Project, Molly Schafer, ESPP, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Caroline Picard, Gallery 400, Chernobylanimals, Expo Chicago, Brian Kirkbride, Other People's Pixels, Elizabeth Corr, Gordon Matta-Clark, Earth Day, Vaughn Bell, The Violet Hour, collaboration, nonprofits, artists in residence, public art, New York City Department of Transportation, Chicago Park District, acorns, photography, sea stars, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2014
'Nature's Struggle' shows what human greed has done to Chicago

A new exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum encourages visitors to think more about what they consume.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Science, Eco, Arts, History, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Nature's Struggle, Steve Sullivan, passenger pigeon, albatross, white tailed deer, beaver

Arts & Culture, Show us your [____] Feb 1, 2014
Show us your . . . passenger pigeon

Steve Sullivan of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum explains that the long-extinct bird was hunted so rabidly it wasn't able to reproduce at a high enough rate.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Show us your [____], Mississippi River, Chicago, Evanston, J.G. Allyn, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Wisconsin, Steve Sullivan, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Cincinnati Zoo, passenger pigeons, Show us your [____]

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 1/2: Bowie Ball, Habitat Conservation Fair, and Story Club

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 2
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Berlin, Heaven Malone, Stardust, Bowie Ball, Ziggy Stardust, Robert Byrne, Christ Connelly, David Bowie, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Habitat Conservation Fair, Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network, Project Squirrel, Story Club, Alan Neff, Stephanie Douglass, Jenna Morgan, Holiday Club

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 7/11: Dan Deacon, 4K Film Series, and food science

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, July 11
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Dan Deacon, Pritzker Pavilion, Gene Siskel Film Center, 4K Film Series, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Blogs, Bleader Mar 31, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 3/31: "The Nature of Eating," Easter brunch, and Willy Wonka at the Music Box

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, March 31, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Food: The Nature of Eating, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, colored eggs, chocolate eggs, mimosas, Bloody Marys, North Pond, Sepia, Feast, Music Box, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 1/13: Indoor farmers' markets, Nerds at Heart, and Jonathan Safran Foer

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 13, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, farmers' markets, Logan Square Farmers' Market, Congress Theater, Green City Market, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Nerds at Heart, Christian Mingle, Alikewise, Market Pub, Star Trek, Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated, Eating Animals, Spertus Institute, Judaism Writing and Inspiration

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Sat 12/15: A Klingon Christmas Carol, Kool Keith at Reggie's, and original art for sale

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 15, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts, Commedia Beauregard, A Klingon Christmas Carol, Raven Theatre, Kool Keith, Miles Raymer, Reggie's Rock Club, Sharkula, Luck of the Draw, Sam I Am the MC, DeLaTorre Fine Art Studio, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Blogs, Bleader Apr 7, 2011
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Fruit trees, spring onions, an afternoon tea, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Julius Meinl, Alice in Wonderland, afternoon tea, Devonshire cream, Queen of Hearts, Lincoln Square, Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce, wine stroll, Fine Wine Brokers, Pizza D.O.C., Prix Fixe, Provenance Food & Wine, the Grafton, Cafe Selmarie, Planet Access, Slow Food Chicago, fruit tree grafting, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Hugh Amano, Food on the Dole Salon, City Provisions, supper club, finger food, Chen's, Japan relief, fund-raiser, Vie, Paul Virant, ramps, ramp dinner, Death's Door Spirits

Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2011
Morning Art: Philip Enquist

Part of A Watercolor Journal, on display at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Visual Art, Philip Enquist, A Watercolor Journal, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Picnicking on the North Shore, touring Pilsen restaurants, navigating Indian menus, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Pilsen, Mexican Independence Day, Buen Provecho, restaurant tour, Nuevo Leon, Nightwood, Take Me Out Cafe, Don Churro, Indonesian cuisine, The Rice Table, Rijsttafel, Sip Coffee House, Somme Prairie Grove, Prairie Grass Cafe, Slagel Family Farm, Italian sausage, yard work, Colleen Taylor Sen, Pakoras, Paneer, Pappadums: A Guide to Indian Restaurant Menus, Indian cuisine, Pakistani cuisine, self-publishing, self-marketing, Kendall College, Guinness Oyster Fest, Guinness, oysters, Neon Trees, Sugarcult, Tom Schraeder & His Ego, Village Tap, Piazza Bella Trattoria, Brew Not Bombs, Screaming Females, This Bike is a Pipebomb, homebrew, vegan bake-off, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Civilian Soldier Alliance, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Sit Stay Read, The Bluebird, literacy, Dogfish Head, Bitches Brew, Two Brothers, Dog Days, Brew Dog, Punk IPA, Green City Market, Locavore Challenge, Community Gathering and Locavore Dinner, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Berry dinners, garden tours, wine classes, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, May Street Market, Alex Cheswick, Very Berry Dinner, Peter Klein, Seedling Fruit, John Laloganes, wine, pizza, Wine + Pizza = A Perfect Pair, WineStyles, Sapore di Napoli, Cob Connection, urban farming, sustainability, Bike the Farm, Working Bikes Cooperative, Chicago Luxury Ice Cream Festival, Efrain Cuevas, Ina Pinkney, Black Dog Gelato, Nice Cream, Trader's Point Creamery, Great Chicago Brain Freeze, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Deutschland uber Ales and Lagers, DANK-Haus, Great Lakes Brewing, Mickey Finn's, New Belgium Brewing, Three Floyds, German beer, German cuisine, Webster's Wine Bar, Wine 102, Jill Mott, La Trattoria del Merlo, Free Festa for the Neighborhood

Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2010
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Lords of Nature

On the second anniversary of the Roscoe Village cougar shooting, the Notebaert Museum screens the documentary "Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators," on Thursday 4/14.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Environment, Eco, Swag, Cougar, shooting, Roscoe Village, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Lords of Nature, predators, Life in a Land of Great Predators, Karen Anspacher-Meyer, Ralf Meyer, Steve Wise, Center for Neighborhood Technology, UIC, Joel Brown, Steve Sullivan, urban ecology, Field Museum, Curt Meine, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2009
10/23-11/1 — Free Days at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with ten days of free admission, games, guest speakers and other special events.
- By Robyn Chang
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Working Bikes, bugs, eat bugs, free museum admission, free days, Recycle Your Bicycle

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jul 9, 2009
A Legal Circus

The board of CircEsteem sacks, then sues, the founder.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: The Arts, CircEsteem, Paul Miller, Pauly the Clown, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Donna Gustafsson

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Also, 12 museums are offering free admission for CPS students this week.

The natural history haven in North Center contains nearly 300,000 specimens that document the biodiversity of the midwest, Illinois, and greater North America.

"Broken Journey" is a new exhibit of Art Fox's snapshots of flying animals indirectly felled by Chicago's citizens.

Artist and environmental activist Jenny Kendler makes complex work about the weird relationship between humans and the natural world. And she has just found a bigger platform as the first-ever artist in residence for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

A new exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum encourages visitors to think more about what they consume.

Steve Sullivan of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum explains that the long-extinct bird was hunted so rabidly it wasn't able to reproduce at a high enough rate.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 2

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, July 11

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, March 31, 2013

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 13, 2013

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 15, 2012

Fruit trees, spring onions, an afternoon tea, and more.

Part of A Watercolor Journal, on display at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Picnicking on the North Shore, touring Pilsen restaurants, navigating Indian menus, and more.

Berry dinners, garden tours, wine classes, and more.

On the second anniversary of the Roscoe Village cougar shooting, the Notebaert Museum screens the documentary "Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators," on Thursday 4/14.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with ten days of free admission, games, guest speakers and other special events.

The board of CircEsteem sacks, then sues, the founder.

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