Karen Walsh, seated at center, celebrates her 50th birthday party at the Baton Show Lounge, which, in its 48th year, is a mainstay for birthday and bachelorette parties in Chicago's River North. |||| Rites of Passage define our lives. They signify the progress of time as well as our citizenship in a tribe, in a culture — in life itself. Chicago commemorates these moments in ways that reflect its diversity, but through difference, we find commonality. We are all connected through these formal and informal ceremonies that remind us how much family, love and time shape us.
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