Article and Photography Via robertfeder.com

A Stately Journalism Award
Given to a Class Act
Ann Compton has been inducted into the
 Illinois Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame 

Former Chicago radio host Mike Nichols wraps November 19, 2014       American Film Institute Image

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President Barack Obama observed voting
in his hometown, Chicago, in early submission
for upcoming November 4, 2014 mid-term election.

Katherine Dexter McCormick
The first woman to graduate from MIT with a science degree

About
A Pill

The 
Chicago
Connection

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Get Your Hot dog Here, Only $2million
As per New York Times Article by Carol Vogel, you may be able to purchase at auction 
an original Roy Lichenstein painting of a hot dog for the price of a million happy meals.

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Cub's Owners Are Rebuilding
While Root, Root, Rooting
By Barry Bearak/ The New York Times/ Sports Sunday

In light of the MacArthur 
Foundation's generosity

                                                                                  Andu Saduko/ Ron+E

some Chicago organizations
have a greater "take away"
than others.

Additional insight about giving
from NYT columnist David Brooks.

Original Title: Startling Adult Friendships, OP-ED 09.19.2014.

"Somebody asked me what I would do if I had $500 million to give away."

"People seem to have a harder time building friendships across class lines.
As society becomes more unequal and segmented, invitations come to people
on the basis of their job status. Middle-aged people have particular problems 
nurturing friendships and building new ones. They are so busy with work and 
kids that friendships are squeezed out."

"So in the fantasy world in which I have $500 million, I'd try to set up places 
that would cultivate friendships."

Now that the Tribune publications
are managed under adult supervision
recent hiring decisions are making sense

Photo/ nipped from robertfeder.com who knows where he obtained it/ probably some Trib PR morgue

John Barron selected for key content role

Patricia Wall/ The New York Times

So a couple of fellows participate
in a really serious job interview.

I have this advice for them:
a. Make appropriate eye contact
b. Use your inside voice
c. Do your home work
d. Do not be a jerk to fellow candidates
e. Have a "plan b" career in mind if you
    fail to follow any of the above tips.

Unfortunately one of the job candidates 
will get or keep the posted position.

The Estate and Full Legacy
of Photographic Work(s) 
Defies an Easy Legal Fix

Photograph By Vivian Maier/ Maloof Collection/ Via The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/arts/music/jeff-tweedy-of-wilco-records-with-his-son-spencer.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

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Kids wearing colors
really stir up Chicago

Gallery of 100 Chicago Tribune Photos
Here

End it all now

Topically speaking and currently trending as per
contemporary social media-- the world is going to
hell in a hand basket. A basket case. While a small
city simmers from summer over-media exposure,
a puzzling high number of otherwise dignified sorts
douse themselves with ice-shower-drenched selfies.

This causes me to wonder. Should our president 
intervene? Would American life be best served by 
pulling the plug on the whole internet thing, that's it 
kids no more internet for you, or ending the broiling
situation in Missouri? It's pretty much his call. One 
action will cause a "third-world war" the other may
rekindle a divisive civil war. 

The harsh reality being----some conflagrations really 
need to burn out sans ministrations from well intended 
do-gooders.  The U.S. Justice Department is there with 
highly focused resources in place. Just chill out America, 
every single individual deserves a vacation--- not one more 
over-dramatized reality show.

Tim Mc
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The Chicago Tribune "Everything is bigger in Chicago--- and better "

                   Where about is relative

                                                                      Photo By Richard Perry/ The New York Times
"We're trying to create an island, I hope, 
of economic and literary sanity."
John R. MacArthur 
Harper's Magazine

                                                                                               Photography By Jane Beiles For The New York Times
About that Little House 
 on The Prairie, in Chicago 

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Genevieve Liu (Photo courtesy of Genevieve Liu)

"Teen's website helps others
grapple with a parent's death"
The Chicago Tribune article by Heidi Stevens

Youth In Grief
Now Have a
Comfort Zone

When Fake News 
Becomes the News 
in the Paper That Prints 
"all of the news that is fit to print", 
You Just Have to Know That the Onion Is Implicated, Some How

Nisant Choksi/ NYT Illustration/ Article By Pamela Druckerman

Can 
Chicago Become 
America's Paris?

Photo/ Hendrick Kerstens
Tavi Gevinson
Featured in The New York Times
TMagazine Article By Emily Witt
Culture Edition/ June 15, 2014

What Goes Good With Tony?

Photos/Ruth Fremson for The New York Times
NYT/Via McCormickTribuneMedia of Oregon

The New York Times Article Taking Her Tony Home
Jessica Mueller, As Herself, After a Starry Night
By Patrick Healy

Robert Neubecker Illustration via Da Trib

Chicago Printers Row Lit Fest Due to Celebrate 30 Year Perusal

                                                                                                            NYT Illustration/ Paul Rogers

====FEED THE BEARS====
It is time to entertain a new tradition Chicago.
Location, location, location.  
It is not just where it is. 
It is what it is next to.
It is what it is between.
It is how you get there.
It is what you do when you get there.
It is how long you plan to stay.
The it factor.
What it means.
Common Community. 
The distinction between you and me. 
The distinction between you and us=== and we and them.
The distinction between Chicago, the place== and Chicago, the people.

====FEED THE BEARS====
Should the city offer George Lucas the park site 
between the Shedd Aquarium and McCormick
Place, Chicago sports fans could embrace a new
tradition. A new tradition that would engage fans
in preparing foods and beverages by chill'n-n-grill'n
without the need for tailgates. In a park that does
not require parking. How cool. Think about it.
It would be a parking mullet. All business (parking)
below. All party-ing above. Just taste the sizzle.

Photography and Graphics from The Chicago Tribune

Link to The Chicago Tribune 
Article May 21, 2014/ Phil Rosenthal: 
"George Lucas' Shrine to commerce, art- and negotiation."
"As Chicago vies for museum, filmmaker's business savvy stands out."



Link to The Chicago Tribune
Editorial June 1, 2014
"Welcome a Lucas Museum------ but not on the Lakefront." 

"It's impossible to replicate nature---It is too good", Jeanne Gang says.
"It's about trying to find that space where it's art."
Photograph By Jenny Hueston /The New Yorker, May 19, 2014 
Profile Article By Amy Waldman

CHICAGO ARCHITECT
JEANNE GANG PROFILED
IN MAY
ISSUE OF
THE NEW YORKER

Blue Sky Ahead
An open letter
to my favorite
Chicagoist's,

Greetings from Salem, Oregon; one of Chicago's most distant suburbs. Spring has arrived and I feel that I should spend much more of my free time tending to nature than eyeballing social media and the like.

In 2008 I started the blog bullfrogspincycle.blogspot. com. 
It was a riff on the Chicago Tribune blog "the swamp", and a reaction to Mr. Zell's takeover thingy. Initially, and naively,  I thought that the cultural changes would be good for the company. Gasp. Sorry. I still like Lee Abrams, rock on, but so much of what happened with the purchase of Chandler shares and sale to Mr. Zell lacked reasonable corporate conduct. Is that only my opinion? 

Over time one blog site led to another as I use them to experiment with electronic platforms. They are private gardens in many ways. Eventually I decided to focus on weeklyICEcafe as my favorite site and have dedicated it to Chicago stuff. I hope you can appreciate that and my love for the city.

I do have an agenda. I want the entire board of the McCormick Foundation replaced and a charter implemented that will promote a true sense of community involvement be enacted in the direction and execution of all activities funded through the resources of the McCormick Foundation. 
Having the same leadership team that contributed, if not manifested, the very foundering of the Tribune Company continue to lead the McCormick Foundation is an absolute
travesty with total disregard to the ethical principles of the
gentleman who funded the foundation. I just have to say it.

The McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum was closed and replaced with a "bread truck" that was not even an Navistar- International and even "it" is now parked. The administrative
offices were moved to a lofty-leased site, while the foundation-owned Wheaton property has 500 acres to house sustainable office projects. The foundation promotes journalism with a program, while foundation sites host dismally low social media participation. The board no longer actively promotes the distribution of printed annual reports and staggers it's IRS 990's to shield some administrative compensation factors from full view by the shear volume of reportage. The foundation assets were diminished in 2003-2004 by 800 million fluid "George Washington's".  Oops.

There should be some avenue for reckoning the current state of the McCormick Foundation board leadership with the crucial premise of what the legacy of the McCormick, Medill, Miller, and Patterson families have intended to foster. Our families are composed of a gentle and private people. Please do not disgrace our name(s) and the community causes that we  have worked so diligently to nourish. Time.

Blue sky ahead. The Chicago Tribune looks good again. 
Mr. Kern seems to doing a good job as editor. I understand that two people that came over to the Trib from the S.T. brought their vision to the fold as well. Thank you all and every one who stayed with the paper through the incredible
"stuff". I enjoy reading it, albeit electronically. Life is good.

Tim