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On Monday, June 29, Goodman Theatre Outgoing Board Chairman Shawn M. Donnelley and Artistic Director Robert Falls were honored with stars bearing their names as part of the Goodman's "Walkway of Stars." The stars were presented in appreciation and gratitude for their achievements and service to the theater, and commemorated Donnelley's leadership ...

A New York City lawyer has pleaded not guilty to stealing identities and using them to discredit his father's academic rivals.

Public employee pension plans are plagued by overgenerous benefits, chronic underfunding, and now trillion dollar stock-market losses.

Directed 'Rebel Without a Cause,' 'Bigger Than Life' Film Journal July 7, 2009, 04:38 PM ET Nicholas Ray New York City's Film Forum will salute director Nicholas Ray with a 14-film retrospective, July 24 through August 6. Born Nicholas Raymond Kienzle in Galesville, Wisconsin, Ray won a scholarship at age 16 to study drama and architecture at the ...

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Michael Sorkin University of Chicago Press, 272 pages, $27 Although it sounds like a contradiction in terms, Michael Sorkin has long been the bad boy of architectural criticism.

Charlie Barlow plans to room with one of his best friends next semester at the University of Chicago: Lauren "Lulu'' Danzig.

Naked behind a banner that reads, "Clean Your Conscience: Go Vegetarian! 1 lb. of Meat = 6 Months of Showers," two PETA beauties will shower together at a busy Toledo location to let consumers know that the best thing that they can do for the environment is to go vegetarian.

The Bailed-Out Two and Who? AP Report Nearly Ignores Impact of Ford on GM's Market Share Erosion In the later paragraphs of a story today about the latest hurdle bailed-out General Motors has managed to jump to get out of bankruptcy, the Associated Press's Bree Fowler almost totally ignored the impact of Ford's improvement largely at GM's expense ...

Share + Jul 6, 2009 12:05 pm US/Central Attorney and gay rights activist Jim Madigan hopes to become the first openly gay Illinois State Senator next year, in a district that was just the subject of a heated contest barely a year ago.

Many Homeowners Say They Would Simply Walk Away From Their Loans ST. LOUIS , June 28, 2009 - While the Obama administration's housing policy has been largely influenced by a study of the Boston housing market during the 1990-91 recession in which homes devalued by approximately 10 percent, new research suggests that a novel phenomenon is at hand in ...

Share + Jul 5, 2009 3:15 pm US/Central At least 26 people were wounded, including an 8-year-old boy, during a bloody six hours that left four men dead late Saturday into early Sunday.

Bay Area eminence, grand communicator about religion and its mysteries, friend to Huxley, Merton and the Dalai Lama - may be stooped by osteoporosis at age 90.

SHE WHISPERED the words, "You are so hot," and John Edwards was smitten. We have not heard the words that triggered the extra-marital romp of Nevada's Sen.

Did you struggle to make it past page 20 of Moby Dick? Do you live in fear of people discovering you've never read Hamlet? Too busy for CliffsNotes? Two University of Chicago freshmen believe they've found a solution.

Cerebral Cortex Advance Access originally published online on November 21, 2008 Cerebral Cortex 2009 19 :1776-1786; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn208 Department of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, 947 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Address correspondence to S. M. Sherman, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, 947 E.

Friday, July 3, 2009 7:13 a.m. The five best universities in the country are Stanford, the University of Chicago, MIT, Cal Tech and the University of Georgia - at least according to UGA President Michael Adams.

In conjunction with Millennium Park 's Independence Day picnic celebration, Dan Peterman's Running Table will be installed in the Park's Chase Promenade for the 2009 summer season.

First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday announced the release of more than $37 million in federal stimulus money, which will allow existing health clinics in Illinois to expand and improve their facilities.

About 100 Chicago schools have chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, according to a University of Chicago report released today.

Despite efforts to fine-tune the procedure for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, the survival rate for older people given CPR has not changed much in recent decades, new research has found.