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Let's explore the Chicago Tribune's archives together. @fotomather + I are releasing a NEWsletter — "Vintage Chicago Tribune" — Thursday, Feb. 3. It's FREE and here's where to sign up:

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Why does Buzz in “Home Alone” wear a Maine South letterman jacket when he clearly lives in New Trier district?

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Women, according to clipping files in the @chicagotribune archives

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Found @Phillipasoo in the Schuyler mansion #HamEx

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Kim Ng quoted in the Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1998:

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Wait, where’s Northerly Island? How can I buy tix? Will @Lin_Manuel be there? We have answers for all your #HamEx questions:

Hamilton: The Exhibition (How to get to the 35,000-square-foot room where it happens)

The temporary exhibition opened April 27, 2019, and will close Aug. 25, 2019. “Hamilton: The Exhibition” in Chicago: All our guides and photos Click here to purchase tickets Location Th…

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Better one #HamEx

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Meanwhile, in Tucson, Ariz. 🌵

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Is you Dad man enough to drink Malort? #FathersDay2023 (Chicago Tribune, May 26, 1978)

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Chicago friends – please refresh my memory. What are some of the BIGGEST projects in city history that were ultimately abandoned. I have one in mind — the Chicago Spire. Can you please suggest others? Thank you!!!

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the dudes picking up last minute flowers at the Jewels

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73,000 is a LOT of people inside Soldier Field, but throughout its almost 100 years, Chicago's lakefront venue has held a LOT MORE PEOPLE. Here are a few of those events: 🧵

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“Chicago! We’ve broken the ticket record for tonight. This is the largest concert that’s ever been here. There’s 𝟳𝟯,𝟬𝟬𝟬 of you here tonight! Thank you so much for giving me your Saturday night.” - @edsheeran 📸: evilchopper714 / IG

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Why Chicago?

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Will someone tell my non-Chicago native husband @patrickfinley that Italian beefs and mostaccioli are indeed Thanksgiving side dishes?

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Oh snap - good work with the #WhiteSox logo Chicago ironworkers union

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Went to a liquidation sale at the Sears HQ in Hoffman Estates

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Dear Manny Machado, Thanks for throwing my son a ball. Unfortunately, we need to work on his catching skills. It bounced four rows and into the hands of #Brewers fans who wouldn’t give it back to him - despite booing you throughout the game. Thanks anyway and go #Padres

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Someone needs to frame this for @BlairKamin , right?

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By request, here’s a look at one of the stories inside the WOMEN — HOBOES file:

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Who’s no. 1?

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Saw Illinois license plate 0 near Lake-Cook Road Who can it be now?!?

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So you’ll be able to help me put away groceries?!?

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Only 29 picks until the Bears' first pick.

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As expected, Chicago hit the comments on this hard:

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This video of Chicago pissing away money on green dye feels oddly appropriate on a day when the news cycle includes panic over a COVID funding shortfall borne of multi-billion dollar "partnerships" with corporations that reported record profits just last month #StPatricksDay

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While I was asleep this morning, my brother flew Charles Barkley to Philadelphia

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It's FRIDAY NIGHT — in 1987. Which level of Water Tower Place are you hangin' out at, Chicago? (Chicago Tribune, Sept. 10, 1987)

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"If it is a sunny day we always get drunk and smash windows." via @freep #GroundhogDay (Chicago Tribune, Feb. 8, 1877)

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Lunchtime, Tuesday: Michigan Avenue at Madison #Chicago

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The sun is out, the Blommer chocolate smell is strong. Let’s go find treasure in the @chicagotribune archives

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Support your local newspapers today - buy a paper or 10:

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Polar. Vortex. You've been warned:

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Significant Arctic Blast to move into the Plains and Midwest next week!!! - A potentially historically cold shot of the polar vortex is expected to move south from Canada and into the Plains and Midwest early to mid-next week and continue into next weekend.

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#OTD in 1984: Mike Royko's column runs in the Chicago Tribune for the first time ...

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When your child wakes you up before dawn on your birthday, then you take him to the beach to watch the sunrise and throw rocks.

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I fully expect the Bears to claim they are from Chicago, like any other suburbanite, if they move to Arlington Heights:

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Ted Phillips’ statement on purchase agreement in Arlington Heights. Note how he says Chicagoland and not Chicago.

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#Wisconsin fans, I have confirmation: "Jump Around" will be played at the end of the 3rd quarter of Saturday's game against #NotreDame at Soldier Field #ShamrockSeries #Chicago

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Happy birthday, #Chicago . Your flag is awesome. Here's how it came to be:

The Chicago flag design: History of every star — including one for the Great Chicago Fire — and...

Dissecting the city’s iconic red, white and blue configuration to explore how it came to be and why it’s considered one of the best flags in the U.S.

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1st snow plow of winter:

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There are meanies lurking everywhere here, yet somehow this platform has connected me with a kind, honest, gentle soul. Nancy Faust ( @played41 ) + I have exchanged notes on here for a while, but finally met yesterday. White Sox fan or not, give her a follow. She's THE best.

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“Robert Quinn, Oak Brook Elementary” #CHIvsLAR

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@annieheilbrunn , that’s my kiddo waving at Manny Machado!

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Saw this posted elsewhere by a fan. Kills me every time. 😂👋🏼

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Let’s see what our small child is watching on TV right now:

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Update: This great couple of #brewers fans gave kiddo a ball ...

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Ope. Our bad, @thedickbutkus

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Good morning! Happy Max Headroom incident day to all who celebrate:

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30 years ago, a Max Headroom impostor hijacked two Chicago TV broadcasts in a bizarre stunt that ended in a bare-bottomed taunt. The case remains unsolved.

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Tom Skilling's name appears in @chicagotribune almost 30,000 times. In the first story the Tribune published about him, Skilling talked about forecasting the weather — as a 15-year-old!

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Our friend died Tuesday. Kiddo’s goldfish died today. Our dear neighbors suggested skating tonight. We fall down, we get back up.

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✈️ Did you know: Amelia Earhart graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School??? Here are photos from her time in Chicago — pulled from @ChiTribPhoto archives:

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☘️ Chicago's quintessential St. Patrick's Day movie has to be "The Fugitive" starring Harrison Ford, right? ☘️ Here's what Gene Siskel thought of it:

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This is a story I’ve wanted to write for years and thanks to the May family and @dartmouth , it finally came together. How Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - a completely Chicago concoction - became a #Christmas icon:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created in Chicago by Montgomery Ward copywriter Robert L. May...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived for a purely Scrooge-like reason — to make money. Thankfully, its creator saw the Montgomery Ward marketing campaign as an opportunity to be as bo…

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#OTD in 1979: At 3:02 p.m., American Airlines Flight 191 took off from O'Hare International Airport, bound for Los Angeles. After losing an engine on the runway, the DC-10 banked sharply after takeoff:

40 years ago, the crash of Flight 191 killed 273 people at O'Hare and changed air travel forever

The crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at O’Hare killed 273 people and helped inspire much of the airline safety measures we take for granted today. And yet, 40 years later, the crash feels...

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Major selfie spot #HamEx

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You can take this one down @portilloshotdog from your Skokie location

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... then @FreddyJ_6 signed it! A happy ending despite the #padres loss!

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My deep dive into how the rumor of ‘Al Capone’s Vaults’ became a highly-rated, live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera more than 35 years ago in Chicago:

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"The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults" (1986):

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Perfect Chicago sunrise

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Solved it: Top Soldier Field with the Thompson/State of Illinois Center. Done.

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That Chicago is evaluating what would happen if they put a roof on Soldier Field isn’t new — Mayor Lori Lightfoot said so in February.

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ICYMI: Rare photos of Martin Luther King Jr.'s time in Chicago found by @fotomather

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Tribute to JD before today’s Bears game:

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Nice try @Hallmark but Tribune Tower is missing its crown 👑 And The Bean looks like a butt

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Here's how it's done:

‘You feel like you’re king for a day:’ How a family dyes the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s...

It’s a Chicago tradition in its sixth decade — the Chicago River is dyed green the Saturday before each St. Patrick’s Day (unless the holiday falls on a Saturday).

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The first boat, just after 7am

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You've read @4T9NER 's thread about his mother's unbelievable life. I interviewed him, his oldest sister, a granddaughter and the monastery's Reverend Mother to get more details about the fascinating life of Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity:

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@4T9NER

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A 92 year-old nun died today in a Carmelite Monastery in Illinois. She was kind of an unusual nun. She didn’t sing very well. She was frequently late to her required duties around the convent. She threw sticks for the communal dogs which was not allowed. Also she was my mother.

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#OTD in 1980: "The Blues Brothers" is released nationwide. @chicagotribune movie critic Gene Siskel's take: "It's one of the most incredibly tight big pictures I've seen, countering every explosion with a quiet moment." (Chicago Tribune, June 20, 1980)

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“No, he didn't win a Pulitzer Prize, but he's dead now, so get off his back.” Ken Fuson, formerly of the Des Moines Register, wrote his own obit:

Legacy.com

Legacy.com features obituaries from nearly 10,000 newspaper and funeral home partners from around the US. Publish your obituary with any of our 2,700+ newspaper partners and create a lasting memorial...

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When I was a kid, I loved the Chicken Machine at the grocery store. God grant me to the will power to NOT buy this Chicken Machine on Facebook Marketplace right now.

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God, I love our museums - something new every visit. Thank you @FieldMuseum

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Wear 'em if you've got 'em (my Grandpa Rumore worked at the @Suntimes back then + all I got was this T-shirt) Today is the 30th anniversary of the Great Chicago Flood:

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Everything old is new again

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Kiddo is chatting with a @shedd_aquarium trainer about a baby penguin - in case you need a smile today

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Maurine Dallas Watkins is probably the most financially successful @chicagotribune reporter you’ve never heard of. She died 50 years ago this weekend, but almost no one noticed. @fotomather and I delve into her life and her famous work, ‘Chicago:’

A Tribune reporter wrote the hit play ‘Chicago’ after covering Cook County murder trials. Decades...

Maurine Dallas Watkins died on Aug. 10, 1969 — 50 years ago this weekend — in Jacksonville, Fla. Don’t be surprised if Watkins’ name is unfamiliar. A nine-line death notice …

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Today, @ChicagoBears owner Virginia McCaskey turns 100 years old, making her roughly 3 years younger than the @NFL itself. Here's a look back at her life, in her own words:

Vintage Chicago Tribune: Chicago Bears owner Virginia McCaskey — who turns 100 today — in her own...

When Virginia Halas McCaskey graduated from Philadelphia’s Drexel University in 1943, with a degree in Secretarial Studies her aspiration was to work for one executive — her father Geor…

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My friends, unmute this video and take in the goodness that is the Chicago accent:

Josué Ortiz

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Even though some of my favorites didn't make it, Chicago is still my kind of plow'n...Great work, @StreetsandSan ! Watch the announcement here ⬇️

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Meet Chicago Public Library's 1st black librarian: Vivian Harsh #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesBlackEducation

Flashback: A heroine to history: Vivian Harsh, Chicago’s first black librarian, preserved black...

You won’t find a book by Vivian Harsh on a library shelf. Not even in the special collection that bears her name in the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library on Chicago’s Far South Side. W…

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Remember when he also wanted to give us a faster option between downtown and O’Hare? He called that X too:

Chicago Spire, Elon Musk’s ‘X’ and more: Chicago projects that won mayor support but were later...

Chicago mayors have known over the years that re-election can be one major legacy project away. That may have been on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s mind when she selected Bally’s $1.74 billion…

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You know you’re Midwest hardy when you leave your coat, gloves and fuzzy hat in the car and hoof it in 20-degree temps - just so you don’t have to carry them throughout a museum

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Chicago, I need your help. Who is your favorite groundbreaking woman from our fair city? Can be alive or dead, accomplished things big or small. Tell me why. You just might make it into next week's @vintagetribune newsletter. Thank you!

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July 8, 1978: The Rolling Stones headline Soldier Field for the first time. The stadium is filled on a steamy summer day with 80,000 fans.

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Goodbye, Bob Rohrrrman. Here's the earliest example of his type of advertising I can find in our archives. (Chicago Tribune, June 26, 1988)

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Real news, real pay @RayLong kicks ass

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We’re in front of Tribune tower rallying for a fair contract.

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The @chicagotribune front page #OTD in 1987: The death of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington -- the first African American elected to the post

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Oh, dear God #countdownchicago

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I hope I’m not the only person in Chicago who feels terrible for Cody Parkey. Please don’t give him the Bartman treatment, #Bears fans.

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DETROIT, Oct. 24 — Chuck Hughes, a 28-year-old reserve wide receiver for the Detroit Lions, collapsed on the field late in the 4th quarter of a game with the Chicago Bears today and was pronounced dead 40 minutes later ... (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 25, 1971)

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Yorktown #HamEx

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How's your water? Eh, usable. (Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1901)

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Bridge lift at Calumet Fisheries #Chicago

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I hear today is @Skilling 's birthday. Here's the earliest mention of him I can find in the @chicagotribune archives: (Chicago Tribune, Jan. 4, 1968)

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Hey @Lin_Manuel #HamEx

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Today is my 7th anniversary working at the Chicago Tribune. Though I'm currently working from a makeshift desk setup at my dining room table, I'm right where I want to be:

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@annieheilbrunn Here’s my video - Manny’s wave made my son, Boone, so happy. Nice to see someone else captured the moment, too #Padres

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Legacy. Tearjerker #HamEx

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It finally happened - my go to word is THE word: Wordle 307 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Sweet @chicagotribune front pages carved on @chicagobotanic pumpkins

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#OTD in 1941, the Chicago Cubs became the first @MLB team to have organ music at a game. The Cubs ( @GaryPressy ) + the White Sox (Nancy Faust @played41 ) have a rich history of organ music. How much did @wlsam890 @CochranShow know?

Vintage Chicago with Kori Rumore: 82nd Anniversary of the first ballpark organ installed by the...

Curator of the Vintage Chicago Tribune Kori Rumore and the Steve Cochran Show travel back in time to talk about how the Cubs became the first Major League Baseball team to provide organ music during...

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Matt Nagy is going to the Super Bowl

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Mom bought tix so kiddo could go to work with ⁦ @patrickfinley ⁩ #bears 🧸👇

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"She brings the body horror of a David Cronenberg film to the joyful bad taste of a John Waters film, adds the manic delivery of Robin Williams, the hair of Patti Smith and the handmade spirit of Chicago storefront theater." @borrelli on @SarahSquirm :

‘SNL’s’ Sarah Sherman makes a revolting return to Chicago and vomits up stardom

Something cringey this way comes. Sarah Sherman, aka Sarah Squirm, aka ringmaster of the Chicago comedy bacchanal “Helltrap Nightmare,” aka the freshest new face last season on “S…

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It’s paczki time

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Since today is the 75th anniversary of Chicago Tribune’s infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline, you might be wondering - who was Dewey and what did he look like? Lemme tell you - he was a handsome dude and would have been the first US president in 35 years to have facial hair

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"So you are from Chicago! Is it true that crime is so bad in your city?" (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 26, 1931)

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Nobody calls it Macy’s. Nobody calls at Chi-town.

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Um, is this really the adjective you want to use to describe the Packers? (Chicago Tribune, Nov. 10, 1952)

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As of today, I've spent 10 years at @chicagotribune . I don't take this lightly. This is the front page from the first day I stepped into Tribune Tower. (Chicago Tribune, June 17, 2013)

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