All Stories from August 31, 2020 (Change date)
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Coronavirus is powerful incentive for people to lose weightAug 31, 2020 6:00 am - Stephen O'Rahilly, a prominent expert on obesity and other metabolic disorders — who struggles with his own weight — lost about 20 pounds in the six months before becomi...
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Can you get virus via cigarette smoke?Aug 31, 2020 6:00 am - The primary way the novel coronavirus spreads, according to health experts, is through close contact with people who are infected. What if you're close enough to smell s...
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How remote PE classes will work this fallAug 31, 2020 5:30 am - Getting elementary-age students to focus in gym class from the other side of a computer screen can be exhausting, says Andrea Rodino, a virtual physical education teache...
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Metra dealing with a summer of discontentAug 31, 2020 5:30 am - As Metra strives to recapture riders wary of commuting during a pandemic, the railroad faces COVID-19 fallout on other fronts - no money, picketing workers, Illinois Sen...
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Tiny offices provide peace and quiet for stay-at-home workers, remote learnersAug 31, 2020 5:30 am - It took a few months, but a Lake Forest family recently came to a hard realization about pandemic living. "Our house seemed big when we used to leave it and go places," ...
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The ideas that still must be tackledAug 31, 2020 1:00 am - As a die-hard Bears fan, Brian Urlacher's statement was tough to read. I wish Urlacher was clever enough to realize that the passing of Brett Favre's father's death and...
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Voters were ignoredAug 31, 2020 1:00 am - Response to the Aug. 20 letter "DuPage referendums far from 'pointless'": During the Aug. 11 DuPage County Board meeting the board chose to add three questions of their ...
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Health insurance changes for foster children to take effect TuesdayAug 31, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The state is moving ahead with its plan to shift an estimated 18,000 children from the child welfare system into a health care coverage plan despite warnin...
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Baxter gets FDA authorization for dialysis therapyAug 31, 2020 1:00 am - DEERFIELD - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the De Novo application for Baxter International Theranova, a novel dialysis membrane. Theranova was design...
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Snoop Dogg, Twista reschedule Aurora concertAug 31, 2020 1:00 am - Snoop Dogg and Twista have rescheduled their postponed concert at RiverEdge Park in Aurora to July 18, 2021. The rap stars were to have shared a concert bill on July 19 ...