All Stories from May 23, 2020 (Change date)
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Addison couple weds on front steps of their homeMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - The low hum of a leaf blower faded into the background as wedding music filled an Addison neighborhood Saturday. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, Sal Scianna and Monik...
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Rethink the numbersMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - Every day the newspaper plasters the state's total number of COVID-19 cases across the front page. Every day that number becomes more meaningless. As we focus on reopeni...
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Illinois reports 2,352 new COVID-19 cases, 75 more deaths SaturdayMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - The Illinois Department of Public Health Saturday announced 2,352 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the state and 75 additional deaths from the disease. As of Saturday,...
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Baseball Way Back: Hawk could have brought a pennant to South Side in 1967May 23, 2020 1:00 am - For parts of four decades, I grew accustomed to hearing the voice over my television exclaiming "He gone!" and "You can put it on the board, yes!" This time, that famili...
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Pandemic forces Barrington High School entrepreneurship students to adjust on the flyMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - Some Barrington High School entrepreneurship students have learned how to deal with business curveballs that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of an affair in...
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High school sports dynasties: Girls No. 2, Rosary swimmingMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - With the popularity of the recent Last Dance docuseries, a popular topic has been which of the Chicago Bulls' two three-peats were better. It shows just how dominating t...
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'I was seeing things scurrying across the floor': Suburban COVID-19 survivors' storiesMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - Drew Murrie couldn't recognize his family in the pictures nurses put up in his hospital room. The Vernon Hills father had no idea those people were his wife and their th...
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Not our Pearl Harbor momentMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - In early April, we were warned by the Surgeon General that the week or two ahead was going to be "our Pearl Harbor moment." At the time I cringed, as it is always danger...
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Incomplete facts can hide the truthMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - It isn't always about what is written but what is missing from an article or announcement that can slant the reader's view. A case in point is the announcement of the ne...
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Constable: Two young men died fighting in Vietnam, and their high school class has never forgottenMay 23, 2020 1:00 am - This story has been updated to reflect that Louis Conti was a star football player and later head coach at Cornell University. Burt Constable The parade is cancele...