The Yerkes Observatory and the Webb Telescope tie-in. The world’s first look at some stunning new images of deep space from the James Webb telescope has ties to the grand observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin
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Little Gems The Yerkes Observatory. Can they screw up any worse? The clever non-profit...
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Living Here To Live and Die at the Yerkes Mausoleum. What happened? The GSR ‘outed’ the family...
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Our Place This past weekend in Lake Geneva felt and looked like a typical warm spring weekend....
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What happened? Here is the joint statement released on Tuesday of last week:
“The University of Chicago and the Yerkes Future Foundation (YFF) are pleased to announce an agreement in principle for the transfer of ownership of Yerkes Observatory and related property located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin to the Yerkes Future Foundation. Over the next several months, both organizations will be working closely on all aspects of the proposed transfer.
Our Place The Baker House Phantom. They called. The PR department (allegedly) of that place called...
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Our Place The Nord wind. A welcome to David Nord, the new city administrator. His job will not be...
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Letters to the Editor I have analyzed the Charles Yerkes letter that details the gift he...
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Little Gems Wild Thing Beachwear. This great small store is located at 858 Main street, and is one...
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What’s going on over at the Yerkes, and why is the University of Chicago acting like it’s got loads of stuff hidden up in its moth-eaten attic that it doesn’t want the public to see or hear about?
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The earth under the Yerkes moves, like an earthquake, building into a tsunami.
Let’s go all the way back to when Mr. John Johnson donated the land that the Yerkes Observatory sits on. Mr. Johnson gave the property to the University of Chicago, apparently without restriction…
Yerkes barricades itself in for the long siege. What is it that the University of Chicago is trying to prove with the Yerkes Observatory? They shut the thing down and boarded up the building. They blockaded the entrance.
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