
Chinese Laborer, 1885
The final program of the Music Institute of Chicago’s excellent series “From all Sides: Paving the Way to America’s Cultural Identity takes place on Sunday, January 24.
This chapter concentrates on the Chinese role in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and how Eastern tradition influenced culture on the West Coast.

If you can’t find something to do this weekend, you’re really not trying.
US Olympic Curling Trials, (photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
Men’s International Bonspiel: Chicago Curling Club: January 14-17,
555 Dundee Road, Northbrook
A bonspiel is a curling tournament, traditionally held outdoors on a frozen freshwater loch. The word comes from the Scots language and
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