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...Other American politics professors have also left for home territory. Professors of Government Mark Hansen and Michael C. Dawson returned to the University of Chicago in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Last year, the Government department also bid farewell to Assistant Professor of Government Andrea L. Campbell ’88, who is now Associate Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...1980s and early '90s, the Chicago postal system couldn't exactly be counted on to deliver. Literally tons of mishandled mail was unearthed in the basements, backyards and car trunks of active and retired workers. A government task force of postal experts declared the city?s postal system "in disrepair." More than a decade later the service problems have been largely cleared up, but one monumental emblem of those humiliating bygone days-all 2.5 million square feet of it-still sits undisturbed...
Laurie Berkner has wanted to be a rock star ever since she was in high school. But when she dreamed of headlining a sellout touring festival, with fans dancing in the aisles of places like the Rosemont Theatre--a venue outside Chicago that has been host to Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie--this gig was not what she had in mind. At 36, Berkner is playing the Rosemont all right, but there are face painters in the lobby and changing tables in the rest rooms, and most of her fans--2,500 of them at this show alone--come...
...fall featuring Berkner, Milkshake and other Jamarama artists. (The bands say album sales have skyrocketed with the exposure.) "There's a national marketing and business engine behind adult music, but preschool music is more fractured," says Noggin's Angela Leaney. "The Sippy Cups are big in San Francisco. In Chicago it's Ralph's World. Someone needed to pull together a national business plan, take a deep breath and jump...
Sullivan suggested that plants, used in some median strips in Chicago, could provide an attractive, yet affordable partial solution...