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Chicago Death

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, passes at 83

When looking through the lens of retro gaming, as to the relevant and historical trends in electronic games of the past decades, one sometimes has...
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Funeral home directors react to scandal

The scandal surrounding the black-owned Carter Funeral Chapels on Chicago’s South Side has some black funeral homes directors worried about a...
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Is my employer required to provide bereavement leave?

  • Bereavement policy
  • February 23, 2012
I had a death in my family. How much paid time off is my employer supposed to provide?While many employers do provide some type of time off when...
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Artistic and cultural death visits Chicago Cultural Center

  • art
  • February 17, 2012
No matter whether death is considered from a philosophical, religious, destructive or medical viewpoint, its depiction by artists through the...
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Review of "The Knife and the Butterfly" by Ashley Hope Pérez

"The Knife and the Butterfly" by Ashley Hope Pérez is a story about a young man, Azael, whose life has been anything but easy.Since his...
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green isn't a book I was dying to read (pardon the pun, please).After all, it's about kids with cancer....
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Major art and artifact exhibit explores cultural, artistic and spiritual death

  • art
  • January 9, 2012
Given the differing periods and styles of Francisco Goya, Jasper Johns, Robert Mapplethorpe and Rembrandt, you wouldn’t expect to see works...
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Between by Jessica Warman for a double whammy - great love story and ghost story

Between by Jessica Warman is a great example of a young adult novel that will be appreciated by those aged fourteen to forty (or older). Although...
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Amy Winehouse, R.I.P.

July 23rd, 2011: British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home. She was only twenty-seven years old. The circumstances of her...
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The 27 club continues to grow with the death of Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse was found dead today in her home in London. An ambulance was called to her home and it was then the police found her. As of right now...
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