Leonard Ratcliff leads Kat Hayven though the International Fox Trot and down the sidewalk near the Spirit of Music Garden, as scores of dancers in the background learn the East Coast Swing, Sunday evening during the last night of Summer Dance in Grant Park.

Summer Dance ends this year's program with a big swing in Grant Park

Last dance

09/01/2010 10:00 PM

The dance day started Sunday in Grant Park with a couple of hundred people working out the steps for East Coast Swing as instructors from the Fred Astaire Dance Studio demonstrated from the stage.
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Aldermen ask CPS for magnet school access

Expanded Jackson program touted as solution to neighborhood complaints

09/01/2010 10:00 PM

Responding to community wishes, two Chicago aldermen last week recommended that Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman expand the Andrew Jackson Language Academy to address claims of a poor choice in neighborhood schools by some residents in areas of the 2nd and 25th wards.
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Swim. Bike. Run.

09/01/2010 10:00 PM

Thousands battled 90 degree temperatures to compete in the Chicago Triathlon along the shores of Lake Michigan on Sunday. A wave of swimmers dot the shore as they complete the two mile swim.
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Chicago entrepreneur makes a go in the online coupon business

Small-scale success

09/01/2010 10:00 PM

It’s hard to image that a desire for inexpensive sushi and hairdos would drive a small business to success by topping electronic coupon searches in the South Loop. But one neighborhood entrepreneur is linking urban dwellers with the deals they seek.
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