The "Chicago Outdoor Film Festival" has started in Butler Field at Grant Park. The City of Chicago web site and more information can be found at www.chicagooutdoorfilmfestival.us

Double Indemnity - July 24 @ 8:50pm
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck

Written on the Wind - July 31 @ 8:42pm
Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack

The Awful Truth - August 7 @ 8:34pm
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant

Butch Cassidy and...

Eric Frost

The Children's Museum has scheduled meetings at many of the buildings in the neighborhood to present plans for the Children's Museum along the south side of East Randolph at the site of the present Daley Fieldhouse. The first meeting was held last night at North Harbor Tower (175 N. Harbor Dr.) and additional meetings are scheduled as follows. More meeting times at other buildings to be posted later.

360 Randolph, Wednesday, July 18 @ 6 pm

195 Harbor, Thursday, July...

Eric Frost

The group BlogHer is putting on BlogHer Conference '07 next weekend at Navy Pier.* BlogHer '07 sessions will begin on the morning of Friday, July 27 and go all day on Friday and Saturday, July 28. There will be cocktail receptions at the Navy Pier following both days.

When: July 27th - 29th, 2007
Where: Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Theme: "A World of Difference"

http://blogher.org/node/17751

BlogHer's mission is to create opportunities for women...

Eric Frost

Alderman Brendan Reilly will be featured at a SOAR Town Hall meeting

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 7 p.m.
Courtyard Marriott, 165 E. Ontario

Ward 42's new Alderman, Brendan Reilly, will be featured at a SOAR community forum at the Courtyard Marriott on East Ontario.

He will provide a community update, discuss his goals and priorities, explain the process by which he will determine citizen support for new projects, and take questions from the audience....

Eric Frost

Reilly's comments at a Friends fo the Park meeting last month regarding the plans to move the Children's Museum to the north end of Grant Park -

From ArchitectureChicago PLUS - "On the proposed move of the Chicago Children's Museum to a new building in Grant Park -
Reilly: That’s been a bit of a political football. . . . That’s something that will be thoroughly vetted, building by building, in the [New Eastside]. I find it curious that there are certain organizations out there,...

Eric Frost