Aimee Levitt
By Aimee Levitt
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Fast Forward Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
Newt Minow was not the most famous Chicagoan who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 22—it’s hard to be more famous than Michael Jordan—but he has certainly left his impact on both his city, his country, and, especially, the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama. In the summer of 1988, Minow was a…
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Fast Forward Liberal Jewish Groups Get Surge of Donations After Donald Trump’s Win
Almost immediately after Heidi Feldman, a professor at Georgetown Law, learned that Donald Trump had been elected president, she decided to make a range of donations to organizations that supported civil liberties. “In addition to supporting more general organizations,” she said, “I thought it was important, with the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-black rhetoric, to…
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News In the Ghetto: From Renaissance Venice to Chicago, Post-Trump
Princeton professor Mitchell Duneier came to town to talk about his new book, “Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea,” and sign a few copies. But certain events in the week preceding Duneier’s November 12 presentation, at the Chicago Humanities Festival, have added extra weight to a discussion about the nature…
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News After Cubs Victory, a Wild Weekend of Celebration in Chicago
The celebration was already in progress when the Chicago Cubs arrived back home at Wrigley Field at 6 AM Thursday morning following their historic World Series victory over Cleveland. There was already a crowd to greet them. Or, rather, there was still a crowd to greet them: The fans who had gathered outside the ballpark…
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News As Cubs Won World Series, Folksinger Steve Goodman’s Ashes Danced in Wrigley
As the Cubs walked off Progressive Field Wednesday night, World Series victors for the first time since Al Capone was nine years old, the thousands of fans who had traveled to Cleveland to see them hailed their heroes with “Go, Cubs, Go” — a tune that anyone could carry and whose lyrics everyone knew by…
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News Ken Holtzman—Chicago’s Jewry’s Local Koufax—Is Watching Today’s Cubs From Afar
A certain generation of Midwestern Jewish boys will always have a special attachment to Ken Holtzman. Though his near-contemporary and fellow southpaw Sandy Koufax had the more dazzling career—and pitched his perfect game against the Cubs—it was Holtzman who had the most victories of any Jewish pitcher (174) in Major League Baseball history. Besides, Koufax…
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News Ken Holtzman—Chicago’s Jewry’s Local Koufax—Is Watching Today’s Cubs From Afar
A certain generation of Midwestern Jewish boys will always have a special attachment Ken Holtzman. Though his near-contemporary and fellow southpaw Sandy Koufax had the more dazzling career—and pitched his perfect game against the Cubs—it was Holtzman who had the most victories of any Jewish pitcher (174) in Major League Baseball history. Besides, Koufax was…
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News For the Chicago Cubs, a Biblical Symbol of Unity
After 70 seasons, the Chicago Cubs’ World Series appearance seems almost too improbable to believe; especially given the team’s long tradition of dramatic late-season collapses. But now that the team is actually favored to win the series against the Cleveland Indians—their first-game rout notwithstanding—it’s no surprise that fans are beginning to think of supernatural forces….
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