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10 ways to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Chicago

From family-friendly museum programming to a racial justice bike ride, there are plenty of ways to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago.

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From new skyscrapers to Union Station redesign plans, 2024 will be a busy year for architecture

Bally’s planned casino and the fate of the Century and Consumers buildings are among the five architectural projects worth watching as this new year progresses.

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Things to do in Chicago through Jan. 10: The Mix

The Young Playwrights Festival, Smokey Robinson in concert, winter flower shows, and Handel’s “Messiah” at Symphony Center are among the highlights in the coming weeks.

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Chicago’s Fine Arts Building celebrating 125 years as a cultural hub for the city

This venerable Michigan Avenue denizen, which sits across from Grant Park and between Van Buren Street and Ida B. Wells Drive, counts among Chicago’s most distinctive and most visited architectural gems.

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Things to do in Chicago Oct. 12-18: The Mix

A Kim Petras concert, the Frankenstein story as both ballet and comic musical, and several Halloween happenings are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.

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Enthralling new ‘Chicago Stories’ docs recount milestone events in rich detail

Films on WTTW-Channel 11 offer context for key junctures from the Our Lady of the Angels fire to Mayor Richard J. Daley’s urban renewal efforts,

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MLK Day Chicago celebrations — our guide to some of the events

The city will commemorate the day with numerous events planned at area cultural institutions.

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Things to do in Chicago Jan. 12-18: The Mix

The 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, the 26th annual Fillet of Solo Festival and the PBR’s Unleash the Beast professional bull riders competition are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

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Silver Skates competition kicks off, harking back to when skating ruled Chicago

Thousands of spectators used to cheer on skaters during the competition’s heyday in the 1920s and ’30s. This year, the attendance was sparse but no less enthusiastic.

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50 years ago, a 737 fell from the sky and flattened homes on the Southwest Side

The day United Flight 553 crashed in Chicago “was just like someone dropped a big, huge anvil on the ground.”

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3 great Chicago film festival docs tell local stories

Movies zero in on a South Side lottery king, a couple coping with ALS and the Evanston reparations program.

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Historical documents offer glimpses of the Underground Railroad in Chicago

Chicago had been a destination for freedom seekers. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 changed things, making Canada a safer final destination and Chicago largely a way station on the Underground Railroad.

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Spotlight shines on Pullman porters in major expansion of South Side museum

A museum dedicated to the men was temporarily closed during the pandemic, but a grant allowing it to expand will help revitalize the northern end of the neighborhood, which is sometimes overlooked after Pullman was declared a National Historic Monument.

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Ali and MLK, not always allies, shared opposition to Vietnam War: ‘It cost them both dearly’

Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr. were honored Monday at the Chicago History Museum. Illinois’ new Jan. 17 Ali commemorative day fell on the same day as the federal King holiday.

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