Word: chicagoland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Virtually waist deep in a field of 1,100 child violinists, cellists and pianists who were all taught by his learning-through-imitation method, Shinichi Suzuki waved his bow. Thousands of fingers tensed, and the second annual Chicagoland Suzuki Music Festival began on a note by Veracini (his Sonata in E Minor). Though hundreds of thousands of students have been taught by the Suzuki method since he introduced it more than three decades ago (including Rosalynn and Amy Carter, who took joint lessons in the White House), the 83-year-old master modestly professes to not playing as well...
...height of its power and influence in the 1930s, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune feared nothing. Not even the English language. With the help of a scholarly staffer named James O'Donnell Bennett, McCormick set out in the Trib to change Chicagoland's spelling habits. "Simplified spelling" made its debut on Jan. 28, 1934, and schoolteachers all over the Middle West found themselves fighting to save pupils from such Tribisms as hocky, fantom and definitly. Freighters became fraters and sheriffs sherifs. A Trib editorial proclaimed that there was "rime and reason for every alteration...
...Irish mother gave me-and Dad. If I am elected, I will embrace mercy, love, charity, and walk humbly with my God." Not even Daley's best friends really believed him. And on the night of his victory, the freewheeling old politicians fairly danced in the streets. Across Chicagoland flew the jubilant cry of a colorful saloonkeeper and alderman named Paddy Bauler. "Chicago," he roared, "ain't ready for reform...
Supported by the other rail brotherhoods, the telegraphers totally shut down the North Western, forcing its 35,000 Chicagoland commuters onto already clogged freeways. When the North Western stopped rolling, so did two-thirds of Wisconsin's multimillion-dollar paper and pulp industry. In the woodlands of Upper Michigan, cut timber piled high at rail sidings, and lumberjacks knew that layoffs were in the wind. Towering grain elevators were idled in Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin because farmers could not move their crops. Cargill Inc. shut its big soybean processing plant in Chicago, and the manager of its Omaha terminal...
...while, the Trib has continued to cover Chicagoland better than any of its competitors and has untiringly followed the colonel's command to "furnish that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide." No scent of corruption goes unchallenged by the paper's hard-toothed bloodhounds...