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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mitch Dudek
It was one of Kathryn Hall’s first play dates, and everything was going great — until the little girl was introduced to her friend’s dad. How could this be a dad? He was just an average-looking guy. Not like her own dad. “I remember thinking, ‘No, your dad? Introduce me to your dad because this just doesn’t make sense,’ ” Hall says. “In my mind, dads were these enormous, mythical creatures. And then, as I got older, I realized: Oh, no.
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3 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mitch Dudek
As a kid playing softball in the parking lot near her family’s South Shore home, and one of the only girls, Deneterius “Dee” Bey refused to join the team she was picked to be on unless her younger brother, Lee, who was barely old enough to join in, could play, too.
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3 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mitch Dudek
It can be hard to wrap your head around the influence Gary Deeb had on the media industry — locally and nationally — when he was a columnist in Chicago from 1973 to 1983. Newspapers, radio and network television reigned supreme prior to the rise of cable TV and the advent of the internet. And Mr. Deeb offered readers something novel. He lifted the industry’s veil and showed readers the inner workings of the industry, introduced its executives and gatekeepers and pointed out their blunders.
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4 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Mitch Dudek
Wonder boy. Whiz kid. Prodigy. Genius. The nation’s top physicists hadn’t seen the likes of Dick Garwin before. When he was 23 and an assistant physics instructor at the University of Chicago, Mr. Garwin spent the first of his several summers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he was granted access to the nation’s nuclear secrets — including the first-generation fission-based atomic weapons developed there just years earlier.
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4 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Mitch Dudek
Before Andy Austin became a top courtroom sketch artist in Chicago, she had to overcome an artistic crisis. She’d grown weary of fruit. Apples and oranges, to be exact. Ms. Austin was a stay-at-home mom who’d studied art before moving from Boston to Chicago for her husband’s job, and she was looking for more exciting subjects to sketch than the produce that sat on her dining-room table. Her kids weren’t so little anymore. So she started roaming Chicago in search of subjects to draw.
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