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Sculptures On The Boulevards

Largest Temporary Art Installation Ever To Take Place In Chicago’s Neighborhoods

“[F]eaturing dozens of works on display now through next fall along Logan, Independence, California, Western and Garfield Boulevards,” the city says.
Let’s take a look and add value to the city’s announcement through the wonders of images, links and video.
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Note: “Several of the sculptures were previously on display for a year along the lakefront until last September, in an exhibit curated by Chicago Sculpture International.”
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Logan Boulevard:
Eric Lindsey, Expanding Universe, at Rockwell
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Posted on November 12, 2013

Esprit de Corps: New Exhibition Unveiled Today At Chicago’s National Veterans Art Museum

By The National Veterans Art Museum

The National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) will celebrate the first anniversary in its location of 4041 N. Milwaukee Avenue with a reception to unveil its newest art exhibition, Esprit de Corps, an exhibition highlighting the spirit of creative resilience.
The show will be open to the public through August 1, 2014. Esprit de Corps is sponsored by Omicron, Bank of America and Paratech Incorporated.
Drawing on breakthroughs in using art to assist with reintegration of veterans and for therapeutic expression, Esprit de Corps traces the process and roles of therapeutic art from the act of initial perception through expression of experience to an ultimate communal sharing and understanding of the real impact of war.
Highlights of programming based on Esprit de Corps include a series of therapeutic art workshops as well as an expanded and interactive arts and civics education programming.
Esprit de Corps features art by nine veterans of Vietnam, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Global War on Terror. The NVAM will be free and open to the public with programming and light refreshments from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. on Veterans Day, November 11, 2013. A keynote address by Dr. Jack Bulmash, Chief of Staff of the Hines VA Hospital will take place at 6 p.m. A color guard by the JROTC from Taft High School will take place at noon.
Featured artists include Joseph Fornelli, Jerry Frech, Jonathan Hancock, Peter Sullivan, Benjamin Suarez, Thomas Gilbertson, Theodore Gostas, Richard Williams and Erica Slone.

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Posted on November 11, 2013

Dining At Trotter’s

Legacy Of A Chicago Chef

We’ll leave it to others to do the heavy lifting on Charlie Trotter; fine dining is not our specialty around here. But we can offer the uninitiated a glimpse of what Trotter and his restaurant were like through some video culled from YouTube.
1. From the chef’s table.

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Posted on November 6, 2013

New Restroom Facilities Offer Great Relief For Forest Preserves Visitors

By The Cook County Forest Preserve

Installation has begun on the first of 10 new permanent toilet buildings for the Forest Preserves of Cook County. The restroom at the Bremen Grove Forest Preserve in south suburban Oak Forest is expected to open in mid-November. The remaining nine facilities will be installed in spring 2014.
“We recognize that having access to clean bathrooms makes a huge difference to our visitors, especially families, and we are committed to meeting this need,” Forest Preserves of Cook County General Superintendent Arnold Randall said. “Over the next year, we will add new bathrooms around the county, particularly in widely used picnic groves that don’t currently have enough options.”
The new bathrooms at Bremen Grove are the first modern vault toilets in Cook County’s Forest Preserves. These non-flush toilets are widely used in other Forest Preserves as well as national and state parks and use the U.S. Forest Service’s “Sweet Smelling” technology.

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Posted on November 5, 2013

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