Chicago 1996 - Abstracts

Chicago 1996
TitleSubjectAuthors
Accessory to a bride: although not the center of attention, bridesmaids can still walk down the aisle in style.(includes resources section)Travel, recreation and leisureLibby Morse
A funny thing happened on the way to obscurity.(rock singer Jon Langford of the Mekons)(Interview)Travel, recreation and leisureJohn Pruzan
A House divided: the battle over the direction of the GOP has spread to state and local levels.Travel, recreation and leisure 
Al Jourgensen's nine lives. (founder, lead singer, and guitarist of industrial rock group Ministry)Travel, recreation and leisurePeter Margasak
A spotlight on the Michigan shore.(Special Advertising Section)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisure 
At home: opening up. (interior designs for five homes in Chicago, IL)(Illustration)(Cover Story)Travel, recreation and leisureAlan Shortall
Bad medicine.(failures of the Illinois Dept. of Professional Regulation in overseeing medical professional)(includes article on problems with hospital peer review)Travel, recreation and leisureAnita J. Slomski
Barre raising.(Joffrey Ballet relocates to Chicago, IL)(includes related article on the Joffrey's 5-year contract to produce the 'Nutcracker Suite' at the Rosemont Theatre)(Company Profile)Travel, recreation and leisureCarroll Stoner
Best new restaurants: it's a banquet out there.(Chicago, IL-area)(includes related article on planned new downtown restaurants)(Cover Story)Travel, recreation and leisureAnne Spiselman, Dennis Ray Wheaton
Big wheels of change: a closer look at the new Joffrey board.(Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, IL - board members)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Catchings catch can.(high school basketball player sisters TAuja and Tamika Catchings)Travel, recreation and leisureEd McGregor
Chilling out. (relaxation and stress management)(includes related articles)Travel, recreation and leisureDennis Rodkin
City Safari: on the path to summer adventure.... (summer vacationing in Chicago, IL)(Special Advertising Section)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Confessions of a yuppie bookie. (convicted bookie given the alias 'Joe')(includes a related article)Travel, recreation and leisureRichard Roeper
Deadly desires. (murder suspect Catherine Suh)Travel, recreation and leisureAnnie Gowen
Dead right: how medical examiner Edmund Donoghue, Jr., stood up to Mayor Daley during last summer's tragic heat wave.Travel, recreation and leisureJoel Kaplan
Destination Armitage Avenue, Halsted Street, Webster Avenue. (Chicago shopping area of upscale shops: includes a directory of retailers and restaurants featured)(Special Advertising Section)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Destination: River North. (a guide to this Chicago district's stores, restaurants, and other establishments)(Special Advertising Section)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Digging deep: how one man fought Illinois adoption laws and his own misgivings to find his biological roots.Travel, recreation and leisureAndrew Blum
Dining in comics and company. (attending a dinner gathering at the home of Joe Martin creator of 'Mister Boffo' and 'Willy'n Ethel' comic strips)Travel, recreation and leisureNeil Steinberg
Doing the '96 Auto Show. (1996 Chicago Auto Show)(Special Advertising Section)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Earthly delights. (services that offer pleasure and relaxation in the Chicago, Illinois, area)(Cover Story)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisurePenelope Mesic, Anne Spiselman, Marcia Froelke Coburn, Todd Savage, Christine Newman, Laurie Levy, Magda Krance, Mara Tapp, Adam Langer, Lawrence Rand, Celia Hilliard, Jody Stern, Tom Bracken, Terry Spencer-Hesser, Jennifer Epstein, Anne Taubeneck, Arnie Kanter, Lynn Hanessian
Egos, inc.: a business tale.(portraits of First National Bank of Chicago experts; humor)Travel, recreation and leisureWilliam Lear
Explore Chicago. (Illinois)(includes list of events)(special advertising section)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Fair ladies.(George Burke's 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair photos of backstreet burlesque stars)Travel, recreation and leisureRichard Cahan, Mark Jacob
Five uneasy pieces. (five artworks featured in the permanent collection 'In the Shadow of the Storms: Art of the Postwar Era' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL)Travel, recreation and leisureBarry Rice
Gary Bennett. (Northwestern Univ football coach)(Ten Who Made a Difference: Chicagoans of the Year 1995)Travel, recreation and leisureShane Tritsch
Getting wired. (computer-related classes for adults in Chicago, Illinois)Travel, recreation and leisureLibby Morse
Ghost story: did Mayor Richard J. Daley swing the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon election for the Democrats, or did he steal it? (John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon)Travel, recreation and leisureAdam Cohen
Gimme shelter. (a newlywed couple's search for a house in Chicago, IL)Travel, recreation and leisureJonathan Black
Great dining '96: from asparagus shavings to zapote sauce, the latest taste discoveries from our dining critics. (restaurants in Chicago, Illinois, area)(includes related information on dishes originating in Chicago, Illinois)(Cover Story)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisureAnne Spiselman, Dennis Ray Wheaton
Howard's end? (radio personality Howard Stern)Travel, recreation and leisureRandy Minkoff
How your town rates. (survey of 160 suburbs of Chicago, IL)(Cover Story)Travel, recreation and leisureDennis Rodking
Image-maker. (Rosemary Tackbary's freelance make-up artist enterprise)Travel, recreation and leisureMarcia Froeke Coburn
Judgment day. (Chicago art critics reviewed; includes related article)Travel, recreation and leisureRobert Sharoff, John Simon
Knowing Jimmy. (actor James Dean's hometown of Fairmount, Indiana)Travel, recreation and leisureAnnie Gowen
Knucking down.(Where Are They Now?)(ex-White Sox pitcher Wilbur Wood)(Interview)Travel, recreation and leisureGeorge Castle
Men's health: ways to stay healthy; ways to live longer.(Special Advertising Section)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Midnight express. (after-midnight clubs and restaurants in Chicago, Illinois)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Murder in paradise. (murder of Velerie Baughman during Antigua vacation)Travel, recreation and leisureLeah Eskin
My throne: how carting around ceremonial seating for the Catholic archdiocese kept one man's family in beans. (Chicago, Ill)Travel, recreation and leisureRoger Flaherty
Offshore havens. (tourist activities inland in Michigan and Indiana)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisureJill Rohde, Ron Rohde
Party politics: a convention-bucking guide to 34 places to eat, drink, and make merry - regardless of your political bent.(Special Convention Issue)(Cover Story)Travel, recreation and leisureTodd Pruzan
Police story. (actor Ron Dean)Travel, recreation and leisureCraig Keller
Postmodern manners. (etiquette for the '90s)(includes a related article on tipping)Travel, recreation and leisureCynthia Hanson, Lynne Nugent
Private reserves.(Chicago nightlife)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisureTodd Savage
Pulp fiction: ugly charges are flying in a battle for turf among Chicago's four Jewish newspapers. (Chicago Jewish News, JUF News, Sentinel, and Chicago Jewish Star)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Race against death. (organ transplantations)(includes related articles)Travel, recreation and leisureSteve Boman
Rachel Barton. (violinist)(Ten Who Made a Difference: Chicagoans of the Year 1995)Travel, recreation and leisureGale Kappe
Requiem for a heavy-weight: he was tough, powerful and unrepentant, even after admitting he had broken the law. (Dan Rostenkowski)Travel, recreation and leisureRichard E. Cohen
Restless art. (actress Melinda Culea)Travel, recreation and leisureMary Martens
Roebuck "Pops" Staples. (musicians) (Ten Who Made a Difference: Chicagoans of the Year 1995)Travel, recreation and leisureMark Ruffin
Savvy traveler. (eight areas of interest to travelers in the U.S. including Puerto Rico and Hawaii: includes a guide to resorts and tourist agents)(Special Advertising Section)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Secret Wisconsin. (vacation offerings from bed and berakfast to biking)Travel, recreation and leisureTed Allen, Jan Parr, Gretchen Reynolds, Kiki Yablon
Smoke gets in your foie gras.(restaurant 'cigar dinners')(Rant)(Column)Travel, recreation and leisureLeah A. Zeldes
Split wit. (filmmaker Harold Ramis) (Cover Story)Travel, recreation and leisureBob Daily
Stage dreams. (African American entertainers honor the ETA Creative Arts Foundation)Travel, recreation and leisureRosalind Cummings-Yeates
Storm seller.(WBBM-TV weatherman Paul Douglas appears in film, 'Twister')(Frontlines)(Interview)Travel, recreation and leisureCindy Pearlman
Tale of the tiger. (rock group Survivor)Travel, recreation and leisureHugh Hart
Thanks, New York, for giving us the Bulls.(New York Knickerbockers - pro basketball personnel history)Travel, recreation and leisureFilip Bondy
The 87-year itch. (Chicago Cubs baseball team have not won a World Series since 1908 yet they still have fans)Travel, recreation and leisureRichard Babcock
The barbarian and the trader.(Maury Kravitz, who claims to have discovered Genghis Khan's tomb)Travel, recreation and leisureMarc Spiegler
The bold soprano. (opera singer Catherine Malfitano)(Interview)Travel, recreation and leisureLiz Phair
The color of love. (workshop on transracial adoptions in Chicago, IL)Travel, recreation and leisureKen Parish Perkings
The dice man cometh. (Donald Trump and his golden riverboat casino, 'Trump Casino' at Gary, IN; includes related articles)Travel, recreation and leisureCharlie Patton
The good Earth. (Prairie Crossing subdivision in Lake County, IL)Travel, recreation and leisureDennis Rodkin
The pursuit of fabulousness. (charity balls and events in Chicago, Illinois)(includes related information on various personalities)(Directory)Travel, recreation and leisurePhilip Berger, Carroll Stoner
Treasure trade. (designer clothing resale stores and vintage clothing stores in Chicago, IL)Travel, recreation and leisureLiz Pawelko
Two-timing.(television actress Paula Cale)Travel, recreation and leisureBob Daily
Use your illusion. (drag club Baton in Chicago, Illinois)Travel, recreation and leisureElizabeth Weil
Walking the planks. (author James Finn Garner tells Pres Clinton what issues he should address)Travel, recreation and leisureJames Finn Garner
Walls of fame.(celebrity photos in Chicago, Illinois, restaurants)Travel, recreation and leisureNeil Steinberg, Richard Roeper, April Trenholme
What Leo wants. (Leo Melamed, former head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, writes a book, 'Escape to the Futures')Travel, recreation and leisureMarc Spiegler
Where are they now? Shanti unpacks her trunk: the strange, troubling journey of the most popular baby ever born at Lincoln Park Zoo. (elephant family and keeper Murray Hill's calling)Travel, recreation and leisureAmy O'Connor
Where eagles die.(eagle population and threats)Travel, recreation and leisureGretchen Reyolds
Windy City holidays. (Chicago, Illinois)(includes directories of hotels and retail stores)(Special Advertising Section)Travel, recreation and leisure 
Winging it: once thought extinct, the giant Canada goose is ruffling feathers as it makes a comeback in Chicago. (Illinois)Travel, recreation and leisureJill Riddell
Woman of the cloth.(Episcopal priest Mary Grace Williams)Travel, recreation and leisureLisa Hamman Jevens
'Zo story. (Bears defensive end Alonzo Spellman)Travel, recreation and leisureShane Tritsch
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