All Stories from August 25, 2013 (Change date)
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On the road: Revving up Harley-Davidson anniversaryAug 25, 2013 5:21 am - Chicago Jazz hands In its 35th year of pulsating grooves and musical strolls, the city’s longest running lakefront music festival doesn‘t disappoint with saxophonist/com...
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Artist plants discoveries in gardensAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - Meet Mother Nature, a 5-foot-tall ceramic figure in greens and purples that peers at a screen of tiles of plants Lynn Rushing also created for her Barrington Hills garde...
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ID cards needed for voters, tooAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - I read in the Daily Herald that the Rivers Casino is Des Plaines is to host “The Price Is Right” tryouts. Naturally there are age requirements, and one needs a valid ide...
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Why should Congress get a better deal?Aug 25, 2013 5:00 am - On Aug. 7, I went to see Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth at the Streamwood Community Health Center for her “Congress at Your Corner.” She had eight people with her. I aske...
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A carpe diem approach to Social SecurityAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - A carpe diem view of Social Security I refute an article recently published in The Wall Street Journal stating that people should not take Social Security at the ag...
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Voices opposing immigration law muted this AugustAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - RICHMOND, Va. — It was the kickoff of a “Stop Amnesty Tour” organized by the Tea Party Patriots and other groups. But the crowd was so sparse that immigrant advocates we...
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Conflicting definitions of murderAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - A man named Castro from the Cleveland area was recently convicted of murder of an unborn child plus numerous other crimes. Other unborn children have been killed by gunf...
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With VMAs afoot, Kendrick Lamar takes center stageAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It's been almost a year since Kendrick Lamar released his major label debut, yet the rapper remains very much the focus of the music world as top star...
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How our reporter got rocker to change his tune on Beatles storyAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — Yes, the Lake Geneva dateline is a bit beside the point, but I was so excited about a story Josh Stockinger wrote in Friday's editions I felt compell...
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A parent letting goAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - Eventually, the cosmologists assure us, our sun and all suns will consume their fuel, violently explode and then become cold and dark. Matter itself will evaporate into ...