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Chicagoans' 'jar shrines' hold trinkets, cheap jewlery -- and

Perched on a folding chair in the coffee room of Unity Church on the Far North Side one recent Sunday afternoon, Marcy Baim carefully picked through the 40-year-old jewelry box stuffed with baubles and trinkets, looking for a few items to put in the empty pickle jar on the table in front of her.

A tiny jeweled elephant and a pair of gold-framed reading glasses. An election monitor's identification card from the Dominican Republic and a photo of a Great Dane. A small glass vial containing a few pieces of white ash.

The items Baim placed in the jar would become a shrine to her mother, Joy Helen Darrow, who died in 1996.

Her creation and 300 other jar shrines created by more than 200 Chicagoans at shrine workshops held throughout the city will become part of the Redmoon Theater's annual Winter Pageant -- a celebration of the physical and spiritual cycles of life.(Continue Reading)

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