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The way former Gov. James R. Thompson tells it, the idea for the Illinois Artisans Program came to him on a trip out east.“We went through Vermont, and…
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Jim Nutt can take more than a year producing his paintings of women’s heads.“I don’t recommend that,’’ quips the 72-year-old Wilmette artist whose work…
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Hours cut. Salaries trimmed. Pay frozen. Staff reduced. An exhibition canceled in part because of budget woes. Sharply reduced endowments have forced…
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After 22 years as the state’s top advocate for children, Jerry Stermer became the chief administrator in Illinois government. So instead of advocating for…
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Poet. Publisher. Professor. Editor. Essayist. Activist. All these titles fit HakiMadhubuti, who is about to celebrate his 25th anniversary at Chicago…
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Poet Sterling Plumpp was born in Clinton, Miss., about 40 miles from what could rightfully be considered a part of the Delta region that produced Chicago…
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The nation’s first federally designated tallgrass prairie preserve, located in Illinois, recently opened its first trails for bicyclists, hikers and…
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Bioethicist Arthur Caplan likens legislating stem-cell research to setting foreign policy according to the script of a Steven Segall movie. His theory is…
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Telephone poles, train tracks and thick clumps of trees are the first signs that Old Route 66 is about to wind north into Lincoln. Once the highway…
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The suburbs to the southwest of Chicago have never been known for eagerness to embrace diversity. Nevertheless, diversity is beginning to embrace them.…