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Nancy S Bishop

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Cubs Co-Owner Todd Ricketts to Be Named RNC Finance Chair

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Todd Ricketts, of the Cubs-owning Ricketts family, is rumored to be named finance chair of the Republican National Committee. He would replace Steve Wynn, who has resigned over sexual misconduct […]

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2017 Sets Record for TV and Films Produced in Chicago

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Chicago just finished a record year for film and TV production and 2018 is looking good. The mayor’s office says that 580 projects–including eight full-season TV series and parts of […]

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Stages, Theater

All My Sons at Court Theatre: A Classic Tragedy Punches You in the Gut

Charles Newell’s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at Court Theatre is an emotionally wrenching tragedy. Secrets and lies that have been hidden for years are gradually teased out. […]

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52 Buildings on the Drawing Board in West Loop Development Boom

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It was once a neighborhood where family-owned meatpackers thrived, then loft condo conversions moved in, followed by trendy restaurants. Now major change is in store for the area west of […]

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Stages, Theater

Whistleblower Disrupts Small Town Life in Red Orchid’s Traitor

As if to prove you can out-Ibsen Ibsen, playwright Brett Neveu has taken Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, An Enemy of the People, and transmogrified it into a contemporary setting. Neveu […]

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How Does the Government Shutdown Affect Chicago and Illinois?

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During the government shutdown, U.S. mail will still be delivered, Social Security and Medicare payments will be made, VA hospitals will operate, and you’ll be able to travel from O’Hare […]

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Stages, Theater

A Soldier’s Journal Weaves Together History and Romance in Yank! A WWII Love Story

A soldier’s journal is the thread that weaves together the characters and the story in Yank! A WWII Love Story over 75 years. Today, a young man (Matthew Huston) finds […]

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Stages, Theater

Linda Reiter Becomes the Queen Mother of Camelot in Rose

Rose Kennedy, the “queen mother” of Camelot, is nearing her 79th birthday. She’s well dressed, well coifed, calm and self-assured. She moves like a 79-year-old woman, slowly, a bit creakily. […]

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Beyond, Lit, Poetry

Poem for January

(An homage to the St. Louis poet who became a Brit and also to Lou Rawls)   January is the cruelest month. Where did T.S. Eliot get that April business? […]

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Stages, Theater

Shattered Globe’s Five Mile Lake Explores Dreams and Despair in a Small Town

The headlines are about major cities declining—in population, in industry, in jobs. But smaller cities are changing too as revolutions in manufacturing, agriculture and mining affect small cities and towns, […]

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Crate & Barrel BoulMich Closing, Being Remodeled as Starbucks’ Largest “Roastery”

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Crate & Barrel’s iconic white building at 646 N. Michigan will close January 24 or sooner if the sale merchandise disappears. Architects Solomon Cordwell Buenz, the original architect of the […]

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Pro Publica Illinois and Free Street Theater to Get People Talking Around the State

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ProPublica Illinois is joining with Free Street Theater to listen to people around the state and and “to think creatively about how to bridge divides and earn trust among the […]

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