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Today In Culture, Tuesday, July 23, 2024: RIP Dominick Di Meo | PravdaFest In August | “Titanique” At Porchlight Music Theatre
Get Chicago & Midwest culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. Artist Dominick Di Meo (1927-2024) has passed, Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery relays. “An extensive period of Di Meo’s youth was spent in a polio ward, which left him with an aura of fierce angst and a fatalistic humor that he carried into his life as an artist.” Di Meo studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he met much of his artistic peers, including Leon Golub, Ted Halkin and Evelyn Statsinger. Di Meo helped Golub organize the independent Exhibition Momentum shows; he also worked on the Phalanx group exhibitions at the ID and participated in early meetings with John Miller that ultimately led to the foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Arriving in New York in 1968, Di Meo set up a loft space studio in Soho, where he worked until only a few years ago. Di Meo exhibited in the 1967 Whitney Annual and showed new work in a solo slot at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in 1982. Di Meo was featured in “Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago” (Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2016), the first museum survey of the group of artists with whom he was first associated.
CG Life Focuses on Continued Growth with Appointment of Industry Veteran Jay Carter as Executive Vice President, Business Development
CHICAGO & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 23, 2024-- CG Life, a leading integrated agency that blends strategy, creative, marketing, digital, and communications with science, has welcomed industry veteran Jay Carter as the agency’s Executive Vice President, Business Development. Emerging out of retirement to join the CG Life team, Carter’s focus will be on the continued growth of CG Life across all facets of the agency, including the advancement of its legacy life science business and its strategic expansion as agency-of-record among biopharma companies. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240723046945/en/ Jay Carter, Executive Vice President, Business Development, CG Life (Photo: Business Wire)
Feinberg Ranks Among Top Medical Schools in the Nation
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has again been recognized among the best medical schools in the nation, ranking in tier one of research-oriented institutions, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, released today. The rankings feature a new methodology, with medical schools being placed into one of four tiers.
OMI Industries Adds to 1300 Series
OMI Industries (OMI), Palatine, Illinois, has added a new series of products to its industrial asphalt mix. The latest 1300 series is designed to provide manufacturers and contractors with an improved response to strong odors associated with operations. Over the last five years, the Ecosorb 1300 series has undergone extensive...
Council Bytes: “Bold ideas” for Envision Evanston, other recaps from July 22
The city’s Envision Evanston 2045 initiative moved to a more concrete phase Monday evening as staff presented a number of “bold ideas” proposed for the forthcoming zoning code and comprehensive plan to the City Council, as the clock ticks for the current council to complete the project by the end of the current term.
Chicago Yarn Crawl stopping at Evanston Stitchworks
One of the hobbies that surged in popularity during the pandemic is knitting. Amalia Malos, owner of Evanston Stitchworks, 906 Sherman Ave., confirms Evanston has a lot of knitters and crocheters. “Evanston is a great place for fiber,” Malos said. 2024 Chicago Yarn Crawl. The 16th annual Chicago Yarn...
Books On Wheels brings the world to homebound residents
Evanston resident Al Bjornson, 84, greets the circulation librarian at the Evanston Public Library with a smile and friendly conversation as he retrieves a stack of library materials to deliver to the local retirement community. Bjornson is one of 10 volunteers for the Books on Wheels program at the library....
Woman sentenced to 24 months for exporting defense articles to Russia
LOS ANGELES, California — An Illinois woman was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for conspiring to unlawfully export defense articles to Russia without a license, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Elena Shifrin, 62, of Mundelein, Illinois, received her sentence from United States District Judge...
Buffalo Grove house fire leaves 1 person dead
A person died after a house fire in north suburban Buffalo Grove on Monday morning.The Buffalo Grove Fire Department responded to the 600 block of Woodhollow Lane around 10:22 a.m. for a report of a fire in the garage attached to a house, officials said.Firefighters found heavy flames in the garage that were spreading to the two-story house. They learned one occupant was unaccounted for. They found the person in the building dead at the scene.Officials did not identify the person as the Lake County Coroner's Office needed to examine the body.Firefighters brought the fire under control in about 30 minutes.The Buffalo Grove Fire Department and Illinois State Fire Marshal are conducting an investigation into the fire.
MSP: One dead in seven-vehicle crash on Northland Drive in Plainfield Township
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — One person is dead after a seven-vehicle crash that occurred Monday afternoon in Plainfield Township, according to Michigan State Police. It happened around 3:30 p.m. in the area of Northland Drive NE and Plainfield Avenue NE, according to police. One vehicle sideswiped multiple vehicles that...
3 shot, 1 fatally, in Lawndale, Chicago police say
One person is dead and two more were injured in a shooting in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood Monday afternoon, police said.The shooting happened near Cermak and Karlov on the West Side. Police said three men were near a home's backyard when someone pulled out a gun and opened fire.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchIt was not immediately known whether any of the three who were struck had fired shots.Police said a 37-year-old man was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene.A 34-year-old man was struck in the leg, and a 26-year-old man was struck in the chest and armpit area, police said. Both were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital and were initially reported to be in good condition.No one is currently in custody, police said. An investigation is ongoing.INTERACTIVE CRIME TRACKER: Track crime and safety in your neighborhood
Activists and police look beyond Trump’s coronation in Milwaukee to the Democratic convention in Chicago
Activists who marched outside the Republican National Convention are trumpeting their efforts, despite crowd estimates falling short. Milwaukee police are praising their cooperation with other agencies in convention security, even as Ohio officers face scrutiny for shooting and killing a man while in the city. Some activists and attendees said...
Pre-Trial Release Denied for suspect charged with drug-induced homicide of Naperville man
A Chicago man was denied pre-trial release on Friday, July 19, after being accused of supplying a fatal dose of Fentanyl and Alprazolam to a man from Naperville in February 2023, according to a news release from the DuPage County State’s Attorney and the Naperville Police Department. Christopher Hobson,...
Festival To Celebrate Famous Illinois Movie Is Back
Illinois cinema fans are excited to celebrate one of the most famous movies ever filmed in our state. One of my favorite movies of all time was filmed right here in Illinois. It's the "Blues Brothers." My dad introduced it to me when I was younger and we watched it all the time. So much so, that my mom recorded over a copy we had on a VHS tape.
Babies “R” Us is making a comeback, with 11 new stores in Illinois
Attention children (and parents) of the 1990s: Babies "R" Us, the beloved retailer you may remember from your younger years will soon return to the Chicago area in a new way. Babies "R" Us, which went out of business in 2018, will soon open 200 stores across the country, each inside of Kohl's Department stores, a press release said.
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