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About 10,000 people attended the inaugural Asian Festival, said Dr. Yung-Chen Lu, one of the founders of the Asian Festival. People come not only from Central Ohio to visit, but guests come from across the Midwest come to experience the Asian Festival. The Asian Festival will be open from 10a.m. The 2008 Asian Festival [...]

The park includes the original sculpture of Cloud Gate - locally known as The Bean - which, when faced, reflects a curved image of the Chicago skyline. Moreover, no visit to Chicago is complete without a stopover at Navy Pier, a 3,000-foot pier which houses restaurants, shops, museums, exhibitions and a 150-foot tall Ferris wheel. [...]

The list includes cities served by Air Midwest under the federal government’s Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes flights on routes that would otherwise be unprofitable. Mesa chief executive officer Jonathan Ornstein says Air Midwest has been unprofitable for several years, even with the subsidies. The cities losing service include Farmington. For more information on [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]

Because this is one of many all-too-similar drownings in the upper Midwest, all dismissed (in the opinion of many) way too lightly. In fact, it is one of far more than 40 similar drownings nationwide, stretching from New York to Montana. The death of Chris Jenkins in the Twin Cities brought suspicions to a head [...]

I have been married for the last 31 years. We have two adult children. Son graduated from Willamette University in Salem,Oregon, and is in graduate school in history in the Midwest working as a teaching & reserch assistant. She graduated from college in Southern Califonia. I am a municipal court judge and attorney. My wife [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]

Midwest earthquake. Google alone came through with news results on a
general search. Not bad — news search results right at the top. Nice explanation, but no news results despite
Microsoft’s upgrade of news searching this week. Earlier this week, I
heard
on Twitter from GrammarGirl that there might have been an earthquake near Reno. Getting specific also gave [...]

My boss asked if we experienced the earth quake last night. After getting some specifics, I said “yes”. I specifically remember Mitch sitting up in bed…something was rattling, but it wasn’t the blinds (by the open window). This news explains it. At first I thought Cindy had deposited $.25 into our bed but when the [...]

So I was awake when I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise. That took me about a microsecond after realizing that it was an earthquake. Then I felt some actual movement or swaying in the house. Earthquakes must have a very low frequency a long distance away. There was a vibrato [...]

5.4 earthquake rattles St. 5.4 earthquake rattles St. (AP) A 5.4 earthquake in Illinois has rocked people awake as far away as Indiana and Ohio, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a large temblor in the Midwest. Red box shows location of earthquake. Was centered six miles from West Salem in southern Illinois and was [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]

Grad school brought her to the Midwest and she’s stayed ever since. While living in Minnesota, she was inspired by the progressive politics of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and attended his “Camp Wellstone” (where she got to shake his hand!) political training school. A move to Iowa in 2003 got her firmly hooked on [...]