Friday 9
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The Chicago Park District’s chrysanthemum collection–the largest municipally owned assortment in the country–will be put to the task of saluting the Soviet landscape design today in PUF: A Salute to the USSR at the Lincoln and Garfield park conservatories. (“PUF” is for “peace, understanding, and friendship.”) Two landscape designers from Kiev were commissioned to do something with the two conservatories; you can get tours of the resulting gardens, hear Russian music, and see displays of Russian art and architecture daily. The Garfield Park Conservatory is at 300 N. Central Park; Lincoln Park’s is at 2400 N. Stockton. Both are open 10 to 6 Saturday through Thursday, 9 to 9 Friday. It’s free; call 294-2493 for more information.
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It’s election wrap-up time again, and not a moment too soon. The Sun-Times’s Carol Ashkinaze, the Chicago Reporter’s Laura Washington, City and State’s Ellen Schubart, and out-of-towner David Broder of the Washington Post are gathering at lunchtime today to Wednesday-morning-quarterback the elections. The Metropolitan Planning Council and the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs of Roosevelt University are sponsoring the forum, to be held at the university’s O’Malley Theater, 431 S. Wabash, on the seventh floor. Registration is at 11:15; the session begins at 11:30 and lasts until 1. Feel free to bring a box lunch. It’s $5, free to Roosevelt students and faculty and to MPC members. Call 922-5616 for details.
