Columns
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'Mike Wallace' documentary a timely, telling portrait of TV journalistAug 01, 2019 6:00 am - "Mike Wallace is Here" - ½ Avi Belkin's tight and hard-hitting journalistic profile "Mike Wallace is Here" begins with a classic square-off between the irascib...
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Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham trade insults, punches in wildly inconsistent 'Hobbs & Shaw'Aug 01, 2019 5:00 am - “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” - ★ ½ I've never seen a movie title “present” another movie title before. How exactly does that work? Nonetheless, “Fast & Furiou...
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End is near for much of Democratic fieldAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - Twenty Democratic presidential candidates debated Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It will be the last time voters will see some of them on a debate stage. The Democratic N...
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Feder: Justice Department approves Nexstar deal for Tribune MediaAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department has approved the $6.4 billion acquisition of Chicago-based Tribune Media by Nexstar Media Group, Robert Feder writes. Th...
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Stay tuned: Federal probes may show how right Rauner wasAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - Bruce Rauner wasn't a very good governor, but he was mostly right on policy issues. Rauner, who's been virtually silent since leaving office in January, wanted to amend ...
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Friendship teacher chosen to attend C-SPAN conferenceJul 31, 2019 11:00 pm - • Dave Benes, a social studies teacher at Friendship Junior High School, Des Plaines, attended the 2019 C-SPAN Educators' Conference July 22-23, in Washington, D.C., whe...
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'ThrowBack' owner confident new sports bar will be a hit in St. CharlesJul 31, 2019 11:00 pm - Jason Agoston thought he had a pretty good idea when he had 2,000 free appetizer cards made to promote his new ThrowBack Sports Bar in St. Charles. He planned to hand th...
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Sound check: Childish Gambino, Arkells, Revivalists top list of Lollapalooza plansJul 31, 2019 9:00 am - It's been nine years since my last visit to Chicago's Lollapalooza. In that time, a few things have changed. The fest's footprint is larger. An extra day? Yes, please! A...
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Being a racist is easy todayJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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Feder: How Barry Rozner got Peggy Kusinski to open upJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - If you didn't read Barry Rozner's column in the Daily Herald Tuesday, don't miss it, Robert Feder writes. His extraordinarily sensitive and insightful report on the rea...