Chicago - Official Visitors Guide - (Page 3) Dear Friends: Welcome to Chicago. I am pleased to invite you to experience the exciting events and activities that make our city a great place to live and visit year-round. Chicago’s theater scene is in full swing, from best musical Tony Award-winner Jersey Boys at the LaSalle Bank Theatre to the American debut of Fragments, January 28–February 10, at Chicago Shakespeare Theater to Shining City featuring director Robert Falls’ heralded Broadway staging at the Goodman Theatre, January 12–February 17. Enjoy dance season at Harris Theater at Millennium Park including Luna Negra’s fusion of contemporary and Latin dance, and Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s American tap dance. Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University presents Chicago debuts such as Complexions Contemporary Ballet, November 10–11, and State Ballet of Georgia, March 5–9. Catch Muntu Dance Theatre’s Fall Concert Series at DuSable Museum of African American History in December. Mordine & Company Dance Theater premieres Quest at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, March 13–15. At Symphony Center, Mitsuko Uchida conducts and plays Mozart with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in February, while the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra makes its Chicago debut, April 11, and the Ahmad Jamal Trio joins the Chicago Jazz Orchestra in concert, April 18. Chicago Opera Theater opens its 2008 season with Don Giovanni at Harris Theater. Celebrate the Festival of Maps at several venues including the Chicago History Museum’s Mapping Chicago: The Past and the Possible, the Newberry Library’s Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West, November 3–February 16, and the Chicago Cultural Center’s Here There Everywhere, January 19–April 6. Sample seasonal offerings including the Haunted Village at Pumpkin Plaza through October 31 at the Daley Plaza, the National Museum of Mexican Art’s Day of the Dead exhibition through December 16, ice skating at Millennium Park’s McCormick Tribune Ice Rink starting November 15 (weather permitting), Santa’s House at Daley Plaza Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve, and the Holiday Sports Festival at McCormick Place, December 28–30. Best wishes for an exciting and memorable visit to Chicago. Sincerely, Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago Sculptor Henry Moore’s Man Enters the Cosmos is located on the Sundial Terrace just outside the Adler Planetarium. The Adler’s Webster Institute has the largest collection of astronomical and early modern scientific instruments in the Western Hemisphere with more than 2,000 instruments. The planetarium features rarely seen astronomical artifacts and charts from its collection in the exhibit Mapping the Universe, Nov. 9–Jan. 27, 2008. Photography: ©Weaver Multimedia Group/Denise Chambers, ©CCTB (inset) you’re here! We’re glad pg For a personalized tour contact the Chicago Greeter Program: 312-744-8000, www.chicagogreeter.com ¶ 3 http://www.chicagogreeter.com
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