Tag: illinois
member name: Mary Beth Magee
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August 06, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Oak Park, Illinois is renowned as having a large number of Frank Lloyd Wright homes and one of his studios. There is also a large artistic enclave. But in summer 2007, Oak Park is the site of . . .
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April 09, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
Drive through Effingham, Illinois on Interstates 57 or 70 and you will witness a beautiful miracle. Rising from the prairie in gleaming splendor is The Cross at the Crossroads, a 198-foot tall white metal . . .
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October 05, 2007 11:49 PM EDT --
Autumn is a lover, slipping quietly into the room.
A gentle touch, a hint of fragrance signals “I am here.” . . .
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June 26, 2007 07:36 AM EDT --
In the twenty-plus years I've been up here, I've noticed you ALWAYS need a jacket or sweater in Chicago.
In the winter, you put it on to go outside.
In the summer, you put it on to go inside. . . .
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June 27, 2007 01:50 PM EDT --
On December 1, 1958, I was eight years old. I was one of those bookworm kids who read everything I could get my hands on and watched the news every evening. I loved going to school and learning.
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September 26, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
The late Harry Caray is arguably the biggest sports star in Chicago who didn't play on a team. As the voice of the Chicago Cubs from 1982 to 1998, his heavy eyeglasses and exuberant "Holy Cow!" . . .
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May 14, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
I confess, I’ve always had a thing for drummers. Blame it on growing up watching Little Ricky Ricardo and hearing about the great Gene Krupa. So interviewing Dave Ambrose was no chore at all.
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September 20, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
I'm sure I've never, ever seen
A sight peculiar as The Bean!
Gleaming silver in its setting,
The cityscape it is reflecting.
Millennium Park is awfully pretty.
Visit, . . .
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November 05, 2008 11:51 PM EST --
How NOT to make a cross country move
Over the last couple of months, I've learned some important truths about myself. Some I already suspected; others were new revelations.
Several . . .
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November 08, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11: 1 (KJV)
The route along I-80 between the Illinois/Iowa border and the Pacific . . .
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June 30, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
People confined to wheelchairs usually experience the world from a “belt buckle” perspective, looking up to see the faces of others. The point of view shifts, however, for those fortunate enough . . .
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November 11, 2008 05:38 PM EST --
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall . . .
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November 12, 2008 05:21 PM EST --
"...but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of . . .
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August 18, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --
At the corner of Algonquin Road (IL-62) and Harrison, nestled against the Fox River just below the dam, is a tiny park. Part playground, part garden and part history lesson, this park pays tribute to Algonquin's . . .
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