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GO Group Members Recommend Halloween Festivities
CHICAGO , Sept. 27, 2011 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Across the country cities have brewed up a cauldron of Halloween happenings.
UIC Hosts Chicago Round of National Acting Competition
About 60 Chicago-area high school students will test their acting skills at the University of Illinois at Chicago Theatre Feb. 28, aiming for three slots in the Broadway finals of the third annual August Wilson Monologue Competition.
Urban League to hold Fall Career Fair
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Anyone unemployed here in Indiana could get some help Thursday finding a job. The Indianapolis Urban League will host a Fall Career Fair Thursday afternoon.
Gov. Quinn Announces $15 Million in Public Museum Capital Grants – Projects will improve facilities, protect exhibits at public museums throughout Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – Governor Pat Quinn today awarded nearly $15 million in grants to 51 public museums in Illinois for new and expanded facilities, exhibits and infrastructure improvements through the Illinois Public Museums Capital Grant Program. “Illinois’ public museums are some of our most valuable teaching resources.
Michelle Obama hosts first White House dance event
WASHINGTON – The stately White House East Room, home to many a bill signing and ceremonial gathering, becomes a stage Tuesday for pirouettes, jetes, gravity-defying leaps and maybe even some bumps and grinds as Michelle Obama inaugurates a new dance series. Dancers of all types — ballet, modern, hip hop and Broadway — take over the room, first for an afternoon workshop, during which students from around the country will have the chance to work with some of the biggest names in dance.
Review: ‘Splice’ is cheeky creature feature
(CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.com) — Like an exciting experimental genetic strain bred of time-tested DNA, the cool, unwieldy sci-fi horror-thriller “Splice” (in theaters June 4) can trace its cinematic ancestry back to Frankenstein….
Chicago Opera Theater presents Gioachino Rossini’s “Moses in Egypt”
The Opening Production of the 2010 Spring Festival Season! April 17, 21, 23, 25, 2010 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the opening production…
Gurnee teens charged for snatching Simon
Three teenagers are charged with pilfering a 4-foot-tall plastic Simon the Chipmunk statue from Marcus Gurnee Cinema last month, authorities announced today. Another chipmunk, Theodore, could have met the same fate as Simon.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater Introduces “Short Skakespeare” Theater for Young Audiences and Families Jan. 23 through March 6
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) continues the 2009/10 Family Series with Short Shakespeare! The Comedy of Errors, a family-friendly 75-minute abridged production of Shakespeare’s madcap comedy, directed and adapted by David…
Theatre Building Chicago Presents “You Took Away My Flag” Play About Kosovo
Author spent a decade aiding the country’s redevelopment, drew on real stories; Show debuts at TBC April 2, 2010 Henry H. Perritt, Jr. is an accomplished attorney and academic. The…
