Media
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O'Donnell: Fourth-and-folly — Who's going to watch all of these summer games?Jul 03, 2020 1:00 am - WHERE WOULD AMERICA BE without summer's whiff of spectacle? Fireworks. Pennant races. NFL training camps. Where would American TV be without the profitable lure of fresh...
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O'Donnell: Determined Thomas trying to keep hope alive at AM-1000Jul 01, 2020 1:00 am - THERE ONCE WAS A TIME when sports talk radio in Chicago was fresh. That would have been when Bill Clinton was in the White House, "The Lion King" was about to happen and...
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O'Donnell: Georgeff never called any rocketing doctors over ArlingtonJun 26, 2020 1:00 am - NO FIREWORKS AT ARLINGTON PARK next weekend reminds of a great holiday-themed local TV racing tale: Gerry Gallitano was a fair-to-middlin' jockey on the Chicago-Florida ...
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Feder: Colleagues to honor Pam Zekman with virtual tributesJun 26, 2020 1:00 am - Pam Zekman, the legendary investigative reporter who lost her job last month after 39 years at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, will be honored by her colleagues with virtual t...
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COVID-19 pandemic leads Elgin couple to close store, look for new magazine ownerJun 25, 2020 5:00 am - Mary and Jeffrey Pierce have been prominent players in Elgin's business and cultural scene, between her eclectic downtown boutique and his vibrant monthly magazine about...
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Feder: Bruce DuMont celebrates 'phenomenal' 40 years for 'Beyond the Beltway'Jun 25, 2020 1:00 am - On June 26, 1980, Bruce DuMont launched a new kind of political talk show on Chicago radio. "Inside Politics," as it was called, began as a 13-week experiment on Chicago...
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O'Donnell: Arlington 2020 more about melancholy than horse race meetJun 24, 2020 1:00 am - WILLIE NELSON ONCE SANG, "Love is like a dying ember." Maybe the Redheaded Stranger could summon up some fresh melancholia for the boned round of swill to be known as "A...
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Feder: WGN Radio's Ji Suk Yi moving to 'News Nation'Jun 24, 2020 1:00 am - "News Nation," the national news startup at WGN America, has tapped Chicago media personality Ji Suk Yi as the face and voice of breaking news cut-ins in the morning for...
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O'Donnell: Jeannie Morris grateful for aftermath of Brian Piccolo's short seasonJun 19, 2020 1:00 am - JEANNIE MORRIS WAS trying to link into a Zoom conference this week and her computer wasn't cooperating. It was frustrating - even though her background knowledge of the ...
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Glenview Herald and Northbrook Herald debut todayJun 18, 2020 4:00 am - At a time when news organizations everywhere are dealing with drastic cutbacks, Daily Herald Media Group has launched two new weekly publications. The employee-owned com...