Chicago Public Library Cultural Center draws visitors with marble walls and a mosaic dome
Reopened after renovation, the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center at Randolph and Michigan features a mosaic dome, marble interiors, a Renaissance style room for children, mosaic floors and brass lighting. Free 11 am and 1 pm Thursday tours from the fourth floor Washington Street vestibule, led by Friends of the Chicago Library, plus free concerts films lectures and exhibits. Coat check and tours showcase Carl Sandburg exhibit in GAR Hall. Call 269 2922 for tour details and 269 2837 for center information.
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Chicago
Chicago Public Library
Randolph
Michigan
Cultural Center
Washington Street
Friends of the Chicago Library
GAR
Grand Army of the Republic
Carl Sandburg
Randolph Street
Huff Luncheon Supports Linda Huff for Metropolitan Sanitary District
The Proviso Township Regular Republican Women's Organization hosts a luncheon to back Linda Huff, GOP candidate for metropolitan sanitary district commissioner. Event at Golden Autumn, 416 Mannheim Road, Bellwood, at 12 30 p.m. Saturday March 11. Tickets four dollars fifty cents. Call 366 1645 or 343 1323 for reservations. Lucile DaCosta serves as president.
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Linda Huff
GOP
Metropolitan Sanitary District
Golden Autumn
Mannheim Road
Bellwood
Lucile DaCosta
Friendship Club to Meet for Lenten Services and Sale
The Friendship Club will hold a Lenten service at Feb 2 30 p.m. on Thursday the 23rd in the church, followed by a white elephant sale and refreshments in the school cafeteria. Members should bring usable items. cards for ill members Susan Mitchell and Jim Lyons are welcome. Westwin will play a rock concert Feb 24 at Howard Mohr Community Center from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. admission $1.
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St. Bernardine Friendship Club
Susan Mitchell
West Suburban Hospital
Jim Lyons
Bridgeview Nursing Home
Eagles Auxiliary Plans Card Party and District Meeting
Final plans for the March card party will be made by Eagles Auxiliary members at 7 45 p.m. Thursday Feb 23 at the clubhouse Stella Moorehouse asks all officers with the card party set for 1 p.m. Sunday March 12 at Howard Mohr Community Center Tickets at 150 each are from any officer and at the door The district meeting will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday March 5 at the Berwyn Auxiliary.
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Eagles
Stella Moorehouse
Howard Mohr
Berwyn
Passover and Communion Service at St John Lutheran
Members of St John Lutheran Church will join a combined Passover and Holy Communion observance at 7 p.m. Sunday March 5 in the Parish Hall. Attendees will sing read pray and share a tasting meal of the Passover Seder with grape juice coffee and tea and small portions of ceremonial foods. Also note Forest Park Public Library offers travel books at 7555 Jackson Blvd to help plan vacations with city country guides and sights.
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St. John Lutheran Church
Forest Park Public
Newstand owner fights village over license and sale
Grega, a Chicago transplant who bought an edge-of-town newsstand for 8000, claims the village may revoke its license this year and shut him down. He says he might sue to recover his investment, while village officials hint they could help him regain funds if the stand was bought under false pretenses.
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Grega
DesPlaines Avenue
Dan Sjostrom
Lambke
Chicago
Chicago Avenue
Australia
Czechoslovakia
Dixon plans tougher cycle test in Illinois licensing
Illinois Secretary of State Alan Dixon aims to place a trained motorcycle examiner in each of the 122 driver licensing facilities by July 1, with no new payrolls. Examiners will be drawn from on staff riders as motorcycle riding rises, and tests will be expanded to weed out unqualified riders for safety.
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Illinois
Alan J. Dixon
Dixon
United States
Michigan
Illinois State University
Normal
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UU World of Forest Park
By Lyn Anderson
Huff
Friendship Club
Westwin
Hollister Ostomy
IS Lee
North Ave
Oak Park, IL
Alliance
Newstand
Pillsbury
Marto
FSLIC
Alliance Savings
W. Fullerton Ave
W. Higgins
Colonial Savings Division
Oak Lawn
Palos Hills
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