Cheap Date goes to Pilsen
3:00 p.m. Hit the revamped Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (1852 W. 19th St., 312-738-1503) to check out "Frida Kahlo: Unmasked" (running through Oct. 7), an exhibit of 63 photographs...
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Sledhead mecca – North Woods beckon snowmobilers
For 20 miles we rode in the forest, swooping by generations of pine plantations and majestic stands of hardwoods lined like soldiers, occasionally throttling back our snowmobile to gaze skyward...
DOG RESCUED FROM ICY WATERS
After working more than an hour, the Chicago Police Marine Unit this morning rescued a German shepherd wandering on the icy surface of the Chicago River near Navy Pier. The...
PROVISO TOWNSHIP TEACHERS STAGE WALKOUT OVER CONTRACT
Holding up signs emblazoned with the words "We'd rather be teaching" and "Quality teachers deserve quality pay," teachers at Proviso Township High School District 209 picketed outside school campuses today...
GIRL, 7, CRITICALLY INJURED AFTER BEING STRUCK BY TRAIN
A 7-year-old girl is in critical condition this afternoon after being struck by a Metra train on Chicago's South Side. The girl was hit by a Rock Island train bound...
Architecture put this town on the map
Deep in the belly of Indiana off Interstate Highway 65 pops out a marvel of a town molded by eminent architects. It was hard-core industry, specifically diesel engine manufacturing, that...
WRITERS, CARTOONISTS PAY TRIBUTE TO MACNELLY
"The world has lost a quiet genius," humorist Dave Barry said of his close friend, Tribune cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, who died early today at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at...
LOYOLA PRESIDENT RESIGNS
Rev. John J. Piderit, the embattled president of Loyola University Chicago, today announced his resignation from the 130-year-old Jesuit Catholic institution. Piderit, who has been president since 1993, has recently...
ATTORNEY ELMER GERTZ DIES AT 93
Elmer Gertz, a highly respected Chicago trial attorney, died this morning at age 93. "In spite of his age, he always looked to the future," said Mr. Gertz's daughter, Margery...