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The Making Of millennium Park
When it opened in July 2004, Millennium Park was four years behind schedule and $340 million over budget. But all of that was quickly subsumed by the magnitude of the accomplishment. The 24.5-acre showpiece has become the city’s unrivaled top attract
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Heart And Science Of Pasta
WHEN CHEF AND RESTAURATEUR EVAN FUNKE WENT TO ITALY IN 2007 TO STUDY pasta making, he was struck by the ubiquity of “pasta laboratories,” where patrons could observe chefs at work. “A connection is built when a diner watches the pasta being made, the
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FIVE THINGS Best of Enemies
1 Lincoln didn’t campaign as an abolitionist. That would have been too radical for most voters to stomach. Instead, the Republican insisted slavery shouldn’t be expanded into territories and new states. His allies “recognized that his political caree

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