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Chicago Rally starts at noon,Thursday, May 1, at Federal Plaza. See you there.

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Movie Note: ‘Conclave’: Say what you will, they’re snappy dressers.

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HAPPENING NOW: Protests continue outside a courthouse in downtown Milwaukee in support of Judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest today

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The Conservancy has awarded its first-ever Preservation Planning Grants to the organizations that steward three public sites: the A.D. German Warehouse, Graycliff, and the Rosenbaum House. These grants will fund planning for long-term preservation at these Wright-designed buildings. buff.ly/fy5CSYm

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Our cover this week.

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Happy Easter

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"He knew his son would outshine him from the beginning, so taught this child the only thing he could: The skill of taking blades and wood, and turning death into something else entirely."

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Great shot from a friend. Chicago Daley Plaza today.

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Discover hundreds of delicious recipes to try out on your next commute with your very own CTA cookbook!

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Poor naive Dick the Butcher, thinking a usurper would need to kill all the lawyers, rather than that the lawyers would be the first to fall into line www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

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Happy St Patrick’s Day!

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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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If you see this, quote post with a photo you took of a sunset.

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