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Midday News Links: Know How to Play A Carillon?

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 21, 2012 6:40PM

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  • The University of Chicago is looking for someone who can play the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon. Good cardio health is a must: candidates will have to climb stairs and play the carillon for a half-hour straight. [U of C]
  • Shepherd's Temple Baptist Church, which was once Anshe Kenesseth Israel synagogue (home to the largest Jewish congregation outside of New York), is now being demolished. (Check out the fourth photo in today's "Around Town" gallery.) [Lee Bey/WBEZ]
  • Two people were shot by an off-duty police officer in Lawndale last night. [Tribune]
  • If OK Go did start an online dating service, it may look something like this. [Collegehumor.com]
  • The caretaker for an 85-year-old woman in Irving Park is accused of stealing $11,000 from her. [Tribune]
  • CBOE market-regulation chief Linda Gerdes was fired this month amid an SEC investigation. [Crain's]