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  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Marianne Mather

    Salvatore (Sam) Giancana headed the Chicago Outfit during the late 1950s and 1960s. Nicknamed “Mooney” or “Momo” for his temper, the Chicago native rose from a juvenile delinquent to the crime syndicate’s upper echelon.

  • 2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Marianne Mather

    Ah, it finally feels like summer in the city. We can’t wait to spend as much time outside as possible. But did you know your favorite Chicago park might have a secret past? These are some of the unexpected things we found when looking through the Tribune’s archives. A police forceIn parks featuring lagoons, Park District officers were kept busy chasing poachers who fished without a permit. Some parks — Lincoln, Garfield and Washington among them — had holding cells in their field houses.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Marianne Mather

    Ah, it finally feels like summer in the city. We can’t wait to spend as much time outside as possible. But did you know your favorite Chicago park might have a secret past? These are some of the unexpected things we found when looking through the Tribune’s archives. A police forceIn parks featuring lagoons, Park District officers were kept busy chasing poachers who fished without a permit. Some parks — Lincoln, Garfield and Washington among them — had holding cells in their field houses.

  • 2 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Marianne Mather

    CHICAGO - Life was moving fast for "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" writer/director/producer John Hughes when he wrote the film's script. It took him just four days to complete it. "How did I come to write 'Ferris?' Well, let's see," Hughes said. "There was a writer's strike coming up in a week and my agent called and warned me, so I thought, 'Geez, John, you better write something,' and so I got this sentence ... out of the ozone.

  • 2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Marianne Mather

    CHICAGO - Life was moving fast for "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" writer/director/producer John Hughes when he wrote the film's script. It took him just four days to complete it. "How did I come to write ‘Ferris?' Well, let's see," Hughes said. "There was a writer's strike coming up in a week and my agent called and warned me, so I thought, ‘Geez, John, you better write something,' and so I got this sentence … out of the ozone.

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