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[ad_1] Theater Music Theater Works presents “Legally Blonde — The Musical,” based on the popular film, it’s the story of Elle Woods (Kayla Shipman) and her journey to Harvard Law School as she learns life’s important lessons. Mandy Modic directs. From Dec. 19-29 at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie. […]

[ad_1] Federal prosecutors rested their case Wednesday against former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, the once-powerful Southwest Side Democrat whose reign in Springfield shattered records but ended amid a wide-ranging corruption investigation. Now, six years after that investigation first surfaced publicly — and almost three years after Madigan’s indictment — federal authorities have made

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[ad_1] Hi, it’s Sol at the Reader again. Since I started as CEO in February 2023, folks have offered me a lot of opinions about our newspaper—some kind and supportive, some… not. Here’s a sample from my notes: The Reader is too young, too woke The Reader is too old, too white The Reader is

[ad_1] Manual Cinema premiered their version of A Christmas Carol as a live-streaming production in December 2020 during the pandemic shutdown and then reworked it as a live stage show for Writers Theatre in 2022 and 2023 (I saw it last year). Now they’ve brought it downtown to the Studebaker. I admit I wondered going

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[ad_1] Steelworkers Park, previously part of the U.S. Steel complex known as South Works Credit: Layla Brown-Clark Right now, somewhere out there, a data center is working just for you.  Anything that flows through your laptop, tablet, or smartphone is driven in part by one of these massive computing and storage facilities. Data centers—on average

[ad_1] Last winter, during a polar vortex that swept in windchills of -30 degrees, the property manager for my apartment building directed the building maintenance worker to drill a hole into my window instead of fixing a leak from the ceiling. While I watched, metal shavings from the window frame rained onto the floor of