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    May 15, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. The Bean featured as cover photo on Bing search engine

    The Bean just got Binged. People doing online searches Tuesday via Bing were being treated to a full-screen image of Cloud Gate, the official name of the sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, as it reflects some of the city's skyscrapers. A "Like"...

    Tags: Millennium Park, Cloud Gate, Microsoft Corporation, O'Hare International Airport, Online Media Industry

    2. May 14, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. The Bean featured as cover photo on Bing search engine

    The Bean just got binged.
    Tribune reporter
    The Bean just got binged. People doing online searches Tuesday via Bing were being treated to a full-screen image of Cloud Gate, the official name of the glassy sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park as it reflects some of the city's skyscrapers. A...

    Tags: Arts, Millennium Park, Cloud Gate, Microsoft Corporation, Arts and Culture

    3. May 12, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. How Chicago can help migrating flocks survive

    If you're out and about in downtown Chicago in the wee hours, you may see small groups of people nosing around the bases of skyscrapers, looking intently at the sidewalks — and picking up things. Those "things," in this case, are birds.
    If you're out and about in downtown Chicago in the wee hours, you may see small groups of people nosing around the bases of skyscrapers, looking intently at the sidewalks — and picking up things. Those "things," in this case, are birds. Every...

    Tags: Politics, Tribune Tower, Lobbying

    4. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Anti-war demonstrators at Boeing annual meeting protest drones

    About a dozen anti-war activists protested Boeing's annual meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History on Monday, arguing against the world's largest plane maker's production of drones and its financial support by the city of Chicago.
    Tribune reporter
    About a dozen anti-war activists protested Boeing's annual meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History on Monday, arguing against the world's largest plane maker's production of drones and its financial support by the city of Chicago. While most...

    Tags: Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Boeing Co., Protest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Equipment

    5. May 2, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Museums

    Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org America's first planetarium has one of the world's greatest collections of antique astronomical instruments. One of those is the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft flown by...

    Tags: Museums, Marshall Field, Great Chicago Fire (1871), Boy Scouts of America, Arts

    6. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Boeing CEO says 787 grounding didn't have big financial impact

    Just days after Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was officially cleared to fly by U.S. regulators, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said the plane's 100-day grounding did not and will not have a significant financial impact on the Chicago-based aircraft maker.
    Tribune reporter
    Just days after Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was officially cleared to fly by U.S. regulators, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said the plane's 100-day grounding did not and will not have a significant financial impact on the Chicago-based aircraft maker. McNerney,...

    Tags: Boeing Co., Aerospace Manufacturing, Japan, Manufacturing and Engineering, Federal Aviation Administration

    7. Apr 9, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Field has mulled selling artifacts

    When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection.
    When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....

    Tags: Museums, Culture, Endangered Species, Values, John James Audubon

    8. Apr 14, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Literary Saloon: The days of cable cars gone by

    Greg Borzo believes, and rightly so, that much of our city's history "hides in plain sight."
    Greg Borzo believes, and rightly so, that much of our city's history "hides in plain sight." There is, for instance, the small building in the accompanying photo, Borzo standing near it. Sitting prominently at 5529 S. Lake Park Ave. in Hyde Park,...

    Tags: Hyde Park, Museums, eBay Inc., Daniel Burnham, Chicago Tribune

    9. Apr 9, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. On view at the Field: Rock stars from outer space

    It is scientifically inaccurate to call a meteorite a "superstar."
    Tribune reporter
    It is scientifically inaccurate to call a meteorite a "superstar." But, at least in the celebrity-culture sense of the word, that is a fair description for the dozens of space rock fragments laid out in an upstairs room at the Field Museum on Tuesday....

    Tags: Museums, eBay Inc., NASA, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture

    10. Mar 13, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Chicago museums reeling after building sprees

    The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown.
    The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...

    Tags: Museums, Culture, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Strikes

    11. Mar 6, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Ocean wonders abound in Field Museum's 'Creatures of Light'

    It's dark in the rooms that hold the new exhibition at the Field Museum, dark almost like in the deep ocean where many of the featured "Creatures of Light" live.
    It's dark in the rooms that hold the new exhibition at the Field Museum, dark almost like in the deep ocean where many of the featured "Creatures of Light" live. It's dim enough to get you wondering if you, too, after enough time in an environment...

    Tags: Museums, Fishing, Mushrooms, Science, Nobel Prize Awards

    12. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Dinosaur-size debt

    For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue.
    For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...

    Tags: Museums, Trips and Vacations, Budgets and Budgeting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peabody Museum of Natural History

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