Friday, March 14, 2025

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entertainment-and-culture
  • by david hall
Koalas debut next week at Brookfield Zoo Chicago

Brumby and Willum, a pair of 2-year-old male koalas, will be viewable to the public at 2 p.m. Tuesday — the first time koalas will inhabit Brookfield Zoo Chicago.

columnists
  • by david hall
Gavel falls silent, but verdict is in on Leinenweber — 'Life smiled on us when we got him as a judge'

U.S. District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber, who died Tuesday, taught a one-man master class in life. A man of reason, a man in full, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather. A golfer, a raconteur, an intellectual who loved people, a teller of tall — but true — tales.

entertainment-and-culture
  • by david hall
Where to commemorate Juneteenth in Chicago: 'A celebration of freedom'

The June 19 federal and state holiday honors the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

entertainment-and-culture
  • by david hall
Comic book series set in Chicago and 'love letter' to the city launches on Kickstarter

With words by John Dudley and art by Scott Gray, "Big Shoulders" explores the journeys of several characters in Chicago who have big aspirations. The "urban fantasy" will feature aliens, dragons and immortal beings — but also plenty of Chicago history.