Lately it has become harder and harder to squeeze through the double doors out onto the sidewalk after Rush Hour. True, our audience has grown in the past few weeks; we had a record-breaking 461 attendees on August 14th! However, what’s really causing the back-up is the Whole Foods coupons handed out at the exit. [...]

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“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing/so proud to be alive…” challenged poet Carl Sandburg. Of the many musicians, artists, poets and writers who have portrayed Chicago through jazz, painting, poetry or prose, perhaps Sandburg did it best.
He called Chicago the “City of the Big Shoulders”, likening it to a corn-fed fighter, [...]

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