Entertainment
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Feder: Tribune Publishing apologizes for phony phishing expeditionSep 24, 2020 1:00 am - Employees of Tribune Publishing newspapers - including the Chicago Tribune - were up in arms Wednesday over a company email purporting to offer them bonuses, Robert Fede...
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ComEd gives $10,000 grants to 12 arts programsSep 24, 2020 1:00 am - ComEd and the League of Chicago Theatres have announced grants of up to $10,000 each to 12 nonprofit arts organizations throughout northern Illinois to support the arts ...
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Scare tactics: Lake County's Dungeon of Doom adds drive-in horror to haunted house thrillsSep 23, 2020 11:00 pm - Last spring as theaters, theme parks, nightclubs and other entertainment venues closed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the future looked bleak for The Dungeon o...
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Best Bets: Common teams with Chicago Children's Choir for world premiere videoSep 23, 2020 6:00 am - Common premiere Grammy Award-winning hip-hop star Common teams with the Chicago Children's Choir for a music video called "God is Love!" It receives its world premiere a...
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Dining: Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Week debuts, plus Buddy's Bites N Brews opens in SchaumburgSep 23, 2020 6:00 am - Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Week Now here's a deal: The inaugural Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Week will be offering three-course lunch, brunch and dinner speci...
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All Aboard Thomas the Tank Engine at Kohl Children's MuseumSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - Seventy-five years ago, Reverend Wilbert Awdry's 4-year-old son Christopher came down with a bout of the measles. To amuse him, the reverend began making up stories base...
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Feder: Orion Samuelson to retire after 60 years at WGN RadioSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - On the eve of his 60th anniversary as the booming voice of agriculture and business at WGN 720-AM, Orion Samuelson says it's time to retire from the Nexstar Media Group ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Nothing but first class for Gale SayersSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - THE PASSING OF GALE SAYERS recalled a long ago summer Sunday morning at O'Hare. The teenaged United Airlines seasonal hireling - later appropriately deemed "The worst ga...
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Kal Penn hopes for dialogue with new show for young voters
Sep 22, 2020 6:00 am - Politics has been more than a little shouty of late. Actor and activist Kal Penn would quietly like to change that. "Today we have the blessing - or a curse - of being a...
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Feder: Dan McNeil apologizes for 'harsh' tweet - and goes fishingSep 22, 2020 1:00 am - One week after his career crashed and burned over what his bosses called a "degrading and humiliating" tweet, Dan McNeil apologized to the ESPN reporter whose attire he ...