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Trump in $40 million dispute with lender
Tribune staff reporterDeutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas has ratcheted up its battle with Donald Trump, claiming the hard-charging developer personally owes it $40 million after defaulting on a $640 million construction loan for Trump International Hotel & Tower. Friday,...Tags: Chicago River, Sales, Chicago Skyline, Lawyers, Manhattan (New York City)
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Florida news briefs
The alleged ringleader of a plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices won't be released on bail before a third trial begins in January. A federal judge in Miami refused Friday to grant bail for 34-year-old Narseal Batiste. He's been...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Regional Elections, Trials, Judges, Crimes
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Tours
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. 'Behind the Emerald Curtain' tour: Get a behind the scenes peek at "Wicked" with costumes and props from the show, a model of the set, film footage about the musical and a discussion...Tags: Wicked, Oriental Theater, Chicago Skyline, Inland Steel Company, Lake Shore Drive
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Geography Challenge: So, how did you do?
Here are the answers to our 19th annual Geography Challenge. There's no scoring; you win by playing. (Added information in parentheses is not part of the required answer.) World Heritage Sites 1. G (Galapagos Islands). 2. C (Cahokia Mounds, Ill.)....Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Gardens and Parks, Itasca
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One fine day, Obama style
Tribune reportersSo your in-laws are in town and they want nothing more than to see the sights. But not Sears Tower. Not the Art Institute of Chicago. No, they want Obama's Chicago. They want to see where the president-elect lives, where he organized community groups&#...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, Michelle Obama, Eero Saarinen, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Grant Park
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4 trips up Sears Tower stairs—all in one day
Next time you find yourself grumbling about a broken elevator, consider Nick Wirsching. On Sunday, the 22-year-old West Chicago man climbed the stairs at the Sears Tower four times—that's 8,436 steps —voluntarily. The feat set a record for...Tags: Damon Runyon, West Chicago
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10 for the road
10 Places to See Before You're 10 American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va. Disneyland, Anaheim, Calif. Ellis Island, New York Grand Canyon, Ariz. Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles Monterey Bay...Tags: Ontario (San Bernardino, California), Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Colonial Williamsburg, Anaheim, American Visionary Art Museum
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Our skyline on pause
A big chill is about to hit the city of big shoulders. In the wake of the global credit crisis, Chicago's once-superheated skyline—radically transformed during the last 10 years by one of the greatest building booms in the city's history—...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Lake Shore Drive, Grant Park, Millennium Park, Soldier Field
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Trump spire delayed
The installation of a spire atop Donald Trump's 92-story Chicago skyscraper, the tallest building in America since the opening of Sears Tower in 1974, has been temporarily scrubbed. Plans called for a helicopter to lift sections of the spire into place...Tags: Chicago River, Donald Trump
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A closer look at the Trump Tower spire
Scheduled installation dates: Nov. 1 and 2 Height: 227 feet, 8 inches Materials: Three-legged steel sections clad in painted fiberglass Number of sections: 13 Weight of sections: Up to 20,000 pounds each Height of sections: Most are 20-feet... -
Waiting to see if the Trump Tower spire will elevate its architecture
Tribune critic252 Tribune critic A spire has no function other than to touch the sky and, with it, the heart. It is, in the simplest sense, a form of visual punctuation, making the end of a skyscraper's climb as exultantly as an exclamation point ends a sentence....Tags: Chicago Skyline, Manhattan (New York City), Chrysler, Donald Trump, Richard M. Daley
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Cutbacks at firms worry landlords
Tribune reporterTribune reporter Layoffs at Chicago law firms have sent a shudder through the commercial real estate market. In the past five years, law firms have been a primary driver of the downtown real estate expansion. Several of Chicago's largest firms,...Tags: Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, Layoffs and Downsizing, Chicago Commercial Real Estate, Legal Service, Legal Services
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