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Lake May Be Off Limits for Fourth of July Swimming

Lake May Be Off Limits for Fourth of July Swimming

Jessica Osborne roller-bladed down to Oak Street Beach on Chicago’s lakefront on Wednesday, two days before the big Fourth of July holiday. The beach typically would be packed, a wall of people sunning themselves, playing volleyball and dipping in the waters of Lake Michigan. But the beach was mostly empty. After heavy rains dumped stormwater […]

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emerge/Next Unetwork Event and Entrepreneurship Mini-Hackathon at BLUE1647

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emerge/Next Unetwork Event and Entrepreneurship Mini-Hackathon at BLUE1647

Combining career advice on being a hip-hop DJ, and doing sound engineering for Kanye, with updates and demos of 3D printers, Leap Motion controllers, and a pair of glasses that give you “spider sense” captured enough audience attention to make them put their smartphones down and listen to the panelists during UNETWORK’S emerge/NEXT mini-Hackathon  event at the […]

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Funky Turns 40 Featuring Black Animation Art at DuSable Museum

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Funky Turns 40 Featuring Black Animation Art at DuSable Museum

Don’t miss Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution at the DuSable Museum (June 27 – October 20) This exhibit from the Museum of Uncut Funk is a collection of  animation art from classic cartoons of  the 1970s.The show will travel around the U.S., but there are some Chicago connections that are too good to ignore.  […]

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