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If you were looking for some new books to cuddle up with for the oncoming winter, the Chicago Book Festival is here to help. There's an events booklet available at libraries and bookstores and a PDF online. Much of the information is on readings in the city that happen anyway, but we are excited about the extra discussions for this fall's One Book, One Chicago, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which we haven't read since high...

We're jetting off this weekend to see some family away from our dear Chicago, but if we were here, this is where you'd find us.

Chicagoist loves parenting in Chicago; we’re happy for now to give up the sprawling lawns of suburbia to enjoy all the city has to offer in the summer months. Recently, we discovered a new favorite: “Niki in the Garden,” an exhibition of sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle at the Garfield Park Conservatory.

Just yesterday, we told you that the cicadas were terrorizing the suburbs. Funny that, because some people haven't seen a one. We're in that camp, and lord-a-mighty, we are so happy. We were talking about these babies way back in April, and they were actually making it sort of okay when the temperatures would dip back down into winter mode, because we thought it would delay the onslaught of the plague.

Anyone expecting to get their usual dose of local music videos via JBTV was sorely disappointed, as the show was pre-empted on WJYS Channel 62 for one of the many ministries broadcast on the station (though it did air on its sister station WEDE Channel 34). Then today we saw this on JBTV’s MySpace blog:

, and once we remembered, we fell in love with the idea all over again. Kit Williams hid a rabbit jewel worth $5,000.00 in Britain that was eventually found by Ken Thomas in 1982 (he has since been accused of cheating to find the hare).

Starting today and running through Saturday, Eyes Wide Open is on display at the Peace Museum (100 North Central Park Ave.). The exhibit was unveiled by the museum in January with 504 pairs of boots symbolizing the lost lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Each week the exhibit moves to a new city and more boots are added to represent more soldiers who haved died. Next to the boots is a wall of rememberence with with the names of more than 11,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion.