Chicago Tribune
Michael Patrick Thornton performs a monologue from 'Title and Deed'
- Title
- Michael Patrick Thornton performs a monologue from 'Title and Deed'
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Michael Patrick Thornton performs a monologue from Lookingglass Theatre's production of "Title and Deed."
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- Medical marijuana brings hope for Michaela
- Runtime
- 4:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Adam and Kristy Frederick's daughter, Michaela, 3, suffered about 50 epileptic seizures a day. After moving to Denver and having her treated her with cannabis oil, her life improved dramatically. (Anthony Souffle, Chicago Tribune)
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- The haircut that divided a nation and shook a newsroom to its core
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- After a national debate about Chicago Tribune columnist Heidi Stevens' hair, the Tribune investigative team dove into the situation head first to recover the story behind the story.
To read more Heidi Stevens, visit http://chicagotribune.com/balancingact
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- So Chicago: Guide dogs earn their keep – and a measure of love
- Runtime
- 4:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- For blind Chicagoans Maureen Reid and Greg Polman, their dogs Promise and Reuben provide guidance—and a bit of friendship. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)
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- Title
- How to shoot a gun if you're a Kid
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- GAT Guns in East Dundee, Ill., teaches kids how to safely handle and shoot guns. The classes started because parents wanted to bring their kids in to shoot, manager Randy Potter said. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune) For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/video, subscribe to this channel, or follow us @TribVideo.
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- The future of collaborative robots on display at Automate 2015
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Blue Sky reporter John Carpenter visits the Automate 2015 trade show, where collaborative robots showed how they can play basketball, serve drinks and help people with spinal injuries walk again.
For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/bluesky
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- So Chicago: A breath of salty air
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Although the city's Galos Caves salt cave draws some skeptics, others find relaxation, health benefits and quality time. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)
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- Blue Sky Innovation: How raising $8 million gave this company's 'steak' some 'sizzle'
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Jon Schepke, CEO of SIM Partners, a digital marketing products and services company, discusses bootstrapping, growth, holistic Internet marketing, culture and the effects of fundraising.
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- The extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Joel Greenberg talks about the astonishing extinction of the passenger pigeon, which went from a population of billions to zero in less than 50 years. He wrote the book "A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction." (Chuck Berman, Chicago Tribune)
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- Bon(e) Appetit: Beetles clean Field Museum's skeletons
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- At Chicago's Field Museum, officials have a somewhat novel way to clean the institution's skeletons - they use flesh-eating beetles to do the job. (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune) For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/video, subscribe to this channel, or follow us @TribVideo.
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- Harpmaking at Lyon & Healy
- Runtime
- 3:23
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Tribune visits Lyon & Healy, which has been making musical instruments in Chicago for almost 150 years. They're best-known for the harps that they make. (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune) For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/video, subscribe to this channel, or follow us @TribVideo.
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- Behind the scenes with Manual Cinema
- Runtime
- 3:34
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A rehearsal session at Manual Cinema, a small puppet theater which uses cinematic language to help tell theatrical stories. (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune) For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/video, subscribe to this channel, or follow us @TribVideo.
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- The short life and violent death of Glenn Houston Jr.
- Runtime
- 6:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Glenn Houston Jr. was shot and killed on East 79th Street in Chicago in the afternoon of December 23, 2014, after two previous attempts on his life. He was 23 years old when his short, troubled life ended. (Chicago Tribune/Terrence Antonio James)
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- Violist prodigy Sofiya Kyrylyuk's big dreams
- Runtime
- 3:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Sofiya Kyrylyuk, a 15-year-old violist, shares her love of the viola ahead of competing in the Johansen International Competition in Washington D.C. (Stacey Wescott, Chicago Tribune)
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- International tourists key to Chicago's future
- Runtime
- 5:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Chicago Tribune looks at the city's uphill battle to attract more foreign tourists to the area. In 2013, Chicago was ranked ninth as a U.S. destination for international travelers. Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants Chicago to be in the top five by 2020.
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- Blue Sky Innovation: Kevin Willer of Chicago Ventures
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Chicago Ventures partner Kevin Willer describes the best ways to approach entrepreneurship, and how he and his organization look to employ those tactics.
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- Blue Sky Innovation: 'Many people rejected me. Everything works out for a reason,' says Jimmy Odom
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- WeDeliver founder and CEO Jimmy Odom tells us how he started his service in the face of doubters. The company serves small businesses from florists to printers that need to make some deliveries but don't need full-time delivery operations.
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- Blue Sky Innovation: Tour the 3D Printing Experience
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Julie Friedman Steele shows off the 3D Printing Experience. For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/video, subscribe to this channel, or follow us @TribVideo.
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- Stella Fayman of Matchist.com
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Matchist.com co-founder and CEO Stella Fayman describes the networks that helped her business succeed, and why she couldn't make it without her mentors.
- Title
- Conceal and carry fashion
- Runtime
- 3:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Three Chicago area women have teamed up to design stylish clothing and accessories for people who have moved on from bulky vests and body armour. The new conceal & carry laws have opened up a whole new area of self-defense fashion. Photographed in the north side home of Marilyn Smolenski.
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- CPR helped a son save his father
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Harry Bell, 17, with his parents, Eric and Brigette Bell. Harry learned CPR as a freshman during health class at Fenwick High School in Oak Park. Harry and his mother administered CPR to Eric after he suffered a heart attack on January 13th. Proposed legislation could make it mandatory for high school students to learn CPR. (Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune)
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- 'You Walk With Me' from 'The Full Monty' performed
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- George Toles and Greg Foster perform "You Walk With Me" from "The Full Monty" with musical accompaniment from Kory Danielson and Mike Matlock. Filmed on location at DePaul Cinespace Studios.
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- 'First Wives' Linda Bloodworth-Thomason talks to Chris Jones
- Runtime
- 6:45
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of the television series “Designing Women” and book writer of the new musical comedy “First Wives Club,” chatted with theater critic Chris Jones last week about the new show, currently running in Chicago.
For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/theaterloop
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- Evan Rachel Wood & Michael Thomas Grant discuss 'Dear John Hughes'
- Runtime
- 8:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- 'Dear John Hughes' stars Evan Rachel Wood and Michael Thomas Grant chat with Tribune theater critic Chris Jones.
For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/theaterloop
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- How FarmedHere uses aquaponics to serve customers locally produced food
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Mark Thomann, CEO of FarmedHere, a 90,000-square-foot facility in Bedford Park, discusses local food, indoor organic farming, fish as fertilizer, the organization's pledge to its customers and the importance of an alternative to traditional farming.
For more video, visit http://blueskyinnovation.com
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- Blue Sky at work: Trying to cut it as a member of GrubHub's 'Slice'
- Runtime
- 3:12
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Blue Sky reporter Amina Elahi tries her hand as a crew member of Slice, a GrubHub restaurant-simulation program that puts employees in the roles of restaurant workers and diners. "It was tougher than expected," she says. Check out the video.
For more video, visit http://blueskyinnovation.com
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- So Chicago: Piano (tuning) man
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- While working alone on a dark stage, piano technician Bill Schwartz plays a series of beautiful arpeggios. But the piano isn’t his instrument– his ear is. As one in a corps group of Chicago technicians, he makes sure that the notes are perfect when a great musician sits down at a bench in one of Chicago’s finest concert venues. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)
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- SXSW: Cool people, a 'buffet of ideas' and the magic of the unknown
- Runtime
- 3:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- SXSW is far from the days of being edgy and new. But Chicagoans Harper Reed, Jimmy Chamberlain and Dan X. O'Neil say it's no less essential when you're launching a digital product or looking to recruit tech-savvy hires.
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- 'Dunsinane' - A scene performed by Darrell D'Silva and Siobhan Redmond
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Darrell D'Silva and Siobhan Redmond perform a scene from "Dunsinane" playing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater through March 22.
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- White family embraces celebrated black ancestor
- Runtime
- 5:05
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Celebrated Chicago photographer King Ganaway, an African-American, died in 1944 in anonymity. Now his white descendants are reclaiming him and trying to recover his lost work. Read the print story here: http://t.co/RKKjlDEL3r (John Owens/Chicago Tribune)
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- Axelrod: How a moustache bet turned into $1.2M for epilepsy research
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- David Axelrod recalls the bet he made with Joe Scarborough in which he would shave his moustache if they raised over $1 million for epilepsy research.
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- Axelrod reveals the biggest influences in his life
- Runtime
- 4:33
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Political strategist and author David Axelrod remembers seeing John F. Kennedy just 10 days before the 1960 election, citing that as an inspiration to get into politics.
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- Axelrod recalls feisty relationship with Jane Byrne
- Runtime
- 3:37
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- When he was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, political strategist and author David Axelrod did not win over the respects of then Mayor Jane Byrne.
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- Axelrod: "Chuy is not Harold Washington, and Rahm is not Jane Byrne"
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Political strategist and author David Axelrod weighs in on the current mayoral race while in discussion with Chicago Tribune editorial board member Clarence Page.
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- Axelrod: Netanyahu speech "a bunch of apocalyptic language"
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Political strategist and author David Axelrod comments on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to congress while in discussion with Chicago Tribune editorial board member Clarence Page.
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- 'Extraordinary' ice caves draw a crowd in Bayfield, Wis.
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- People flock to see the ice caves on Lake Superior in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore near Bayfield, Wis. (Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune)
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- So Chicago: "I'm Will, the door captain."
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Since 1996, Will Spain has packed guests in cabs, charmed travelers and mastered the art of saying hellos and goodbyes at the Hyatt Regency Chicago hotel. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)
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- Austin Cook performs a medley of Sondheim classics
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- From Porchlight Music Theatre's production of "Sondheim on Sondheim," pianist Austin Cook performs a medley of Sondheim classics.
For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/theaterloop
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- Who is Oscar? Meet the Academy Award and the Chicago manufacturer that creates him
- Runtime
- 3:42
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips and Tribune video producer Brian Ernst visit R.S. Owens & Co. to see the film industry's most coveted award, the Oscar. See how it's made and how he got his famous name.
For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com
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- B.J. Novak's favorite 'The Office' character and episode is...
- Runtime
- 3:32
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The "Newsroom" and "Inglorious Basterds" star reflects on being a writer and actor on the acclaimed NBC series. It's hard to beat Michael Scott, but watch to see who else steals B.J.'s heart. For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com
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- The Office's B.J. Novak explains why hipsters are the best
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Other than the beards, B.J. Novak fully supports what hipsters believe in. Who doesn't love coffee, bourbon and music? For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com
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- Meet Keough, B.J. Novak's fictional Twitter sister
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- "The Office" and "The Newsroom" star explains writing in the voice of his fictional teenage sister on social media. For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com
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- Chicago Auto Show sneak peek: GoPro, Google Glass, CarPlay sightings
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Blue Sky reporter John Carpenter provides a preview on technology at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. For more video, visit http://blueskyinnovation.com
- Title
- Lucas Segovia teaches you the 'West Side Story' Mambo
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Drury Lane Theatre's production of "West Side Story" stars Joffrey Ballet dancer, Lucas Segovia, as Bernardo. Watch him teach Tribune reporter Jenniffer Weigel how to mambo.
For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/theaterloop
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- Does my high school crush like me back? Lincoln Park teen builds an app for that
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- At an age when many students are concerned with standardized tests and driver's licenses, Sam Lurye is running a mobile app company, Social Synergy Media.
For more video, visit http://chicagotribune.com/bluesky
- Title
- So Chicago: Wolf whistle
- Runtime
- 3:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- We placed cameras in Brookfield Zoo’s Regenstein Wolf Woods exhibit where zoo officials hope the two newest residents, Flint and Zana, will pair up and start a family. The zoo participates in the Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program, an international effort that's helping to increase the wild population of this endangered subspecies. If Flint and Zana successfully mate, their offspring may join more than 80 wolves reintroduced to recovery zones in the Southwest. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)
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- The Goodman Theatre's 'Rapture, Blister, Burn'
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Jennifer Coombs & Mark L. Montgomery perform a scene from the Goodman's production of "Rapture, Blister, Burn."
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- Title
- Lovely, loathsome snow
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Tribune photographers capture Chicagoans coping with snow the day after the fifth-largest winter storm in the city's history. (Zbigniew Bzdak, Brian Cassella, Nancy Stone and Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)
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- Then and Now: The Michigan Avenue bridge
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Then and now: We paired a 90-year-old photo of the bi-level Michigan Avenue bridge (formally the DuSable Bridge) with a modern-day image.
A barrier now separates the lower span's sidewalk from the road, but aside from that, the view of this spot today is pretty much the same.
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- So Chicago: Deep tunnel, marvelous site
- Runtime
- 3:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- With the capacity to hold 7.9 billion gallons of water, the Thornton Composite Reservoir will create the largest basin of its kind in the world when it comes online. Workers talk about their passion and longtime investment in this massive engineering effort to keep Chicagoland from reverting to its swampland roots. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)
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