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Food & Drink
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Food & Drink Feature
Mar 22, 2021
Conrad Seipp brews again
Take a swig of history with the Columbia Bock.
By Joshua Riley
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Corand Seipp
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Seipp Brewing Company
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Metropolitan Brewing
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World's Fair
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Columbia Bock
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bock
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beer
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Chicago Brewseum
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Field Museum
City Life
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Sightseeing
Nov 20, 2019
A trip back in time to the World’s Columbian Exposition
Travel tips for Chicago from 1893 (yes, you should tip your servers).
By Jeff Nichols
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Sightseeing
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World's Columbian Exposition
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World's Fair
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Ida B. Wells
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Auditorium Theatre
Arts & Culture
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Architecture
Sep 18, 2019
Big, unbuilt plans
A civic center in River North, a concrete ribbon that split Hyde Park north from Woodlawn, and a third World’s Fair on the lakefront
By Max Grinnell
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Architecture
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Daniel H. Burnham
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River North
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hyde park
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navy pier
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University of Chicago
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Eero Saarinen
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Obama Presidential Center
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world's fair
Arts & Culture
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Feature
Oct 26, 2016
A brief, wondrous history of Chicago magic
New York had Broadway. LA had Hollywood. Chicago had magic.
By David Witter
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Feature
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history
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magic
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Harry Houdini
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Thurston
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World's Fair
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Wizzo
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Harry Blackstone
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Chicago American
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World's Columbian Exposition
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Bert Allerton
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Clark "the Senator" Crandall
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Jack Kodell
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Celeste Evans
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Palmer House
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Heba Haba Al
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Society of American Magicians
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Jay Marshall
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Frances Ireland
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Magic Inc.
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Marshall Brodien
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Al Andrucci
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Tony Andruzzi
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Gloria Jacobon
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Vampira
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Eugene Burger
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Ireland's
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Joe Berg
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Abbott's
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National Magic company
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Treasure Chest
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New York Lounge
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Schulien's
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Matt Schulien
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Bess Houdini
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Dennis Watkins
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Chinese Water Torture Cell
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
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Neil Tobin
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House Theatre
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Chicago Magic Lounge
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Joey Cranford
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Penn & Teller
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David Copperfield
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Jasper Theater
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Death and Harry Houdini
Blogs
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Bleader
Oct 18, 2013
Chicago, vegetarian capital of America (c. 1905)
Chicago, turnip butcher to the world? A new book argues for our prominence in the history of not eating meat.
By Michael Gebert
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Adam Shprintzen
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The Vegetarian Crusade
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vegetarianism
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World's Fair
News & Politics
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Feature
Mar 4, 2010
Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: The 800-Pound Gargoyle
The University of Chicago may not be the only force that shaped Hyde Park and Kenwood, but it's the biggest.
By Deanna Isaacs
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Kenwood
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Stephen Douglas
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Paul Cornell
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Illinois Central
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John Evans
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Theological Seminary of the Northwest
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Jackson Park
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Columbian Exhibition
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White City
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Palace of Fine Arts
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Museum of Science and Industry
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Old University of Chicago
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John D. Rockefeller
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Gothic architecture
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Marshall Field
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the Midway
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Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Great Books
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Stagg Field
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urban renewal
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Hyde Park-Kenwood Community
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South East Chicago Commission
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SECC
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One in Spirit
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Mike Nichols
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Lake Shore Drive
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Robie House
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DuSable Museum of African American History
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Hyde Park Art Center
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Court Theatre
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Renaissance Society
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Smart Museum
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57th Street Art Fair
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Doc Films
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Mandel Hall
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Harper Court
Blogs
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Bleader
May 13, 2009
5/14 -- Free Shows at Reggie's Music Joint and Rock Club
Free shows at both Reggie's venues put on by Columbia College's Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Program
By Alex Yablon
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Sharp Darts
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Columbia College
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Miles Raymer
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Reggie's Music Joint
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Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Program
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AEMMP
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Chompilation
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Rachele Eve
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Matt Kelly
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Claire Stahlecker
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Maps & Atlases
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Netherfriends
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Pet Lions
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Reggie's Rock Club
Blogs
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Bleader
Sep 25, 2007
Wild at the Fair
Back to the past's vision of the future: a new book remembers the "Century of Progress" world's fair.
By Harold Henderson
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Chicago
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History
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Books
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World's Fair
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Century of Progress
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Lisa Schrenk
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