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Keep rail resurgence going strongFeb 11, 2021 12:00 am - Lost last fall amid the run-up to the election was the 40th anniversary of the Staggers Act, a landmark federal law with an especially strong connection to Chicago, the ...
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Widescreen: This Valentine's Day, cozy up to ... 'The Equalizer'? ('No, not exactly)Feb 10, 2021 10:00 pm - Love is in the air! Let's snuggle and watch a romantic favorite. Hey look, "You've Got Mail" is on HBO Max! Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan! Love in the age of AOL! I saw this mo...
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In a search for something new, turn to the wines of SicilyFeb 10, 2021 5:00 am - A unique feature of our U.S. wine market is our eagerness to experiment. While wine drinkers elsewhere tend to stick with a favorite house wine (probably produced not to...
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Unite the Republican Party, save IllinoisFeb 10, 2021 12:00 am - Illinois is a disaster and I hope to help save it. After the surprise resignation of Tim Schneider as chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, the opportunity to help ...
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Letter from the Editor: Time, time, time - see what's become of meFeb 10, 2021 12:00 am - In the Daily Herald earlier this week, seniors who had been vaccinated for COVID-19 spoke in a cautiously optimistic way about what post-pandemic life might be like. I'v...
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Feder: Radio legend Kevin Matthews turns music mogulFeb 10, 2021 12:00 am - Kevin Matthews, one of Chicago radio's all-time greats, is one of the principals behind a new multimedia platform for music and performance artists, Robert Feder writes....
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Jim O'Donnell: Curious yellow pixies greatly weakened CBS, Super Bowl 55Feb 10, 2021 12:00 am - VIEWERS TUNED INTO Super Bowl 55 with the expectation that The Weeknd was the star of the halftime show. Few realized that in the end, "weakened" would be a fair summary...
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Bears coaches musical chairs appears to be overFeb 10, 2021 12:00 am - Building NFL coaching staffs is nothing if not incestuous, and the Bears are no exception to the rule. Following the 2019 season, Matt Nagy elected to overhaul his offen...
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West Chicago company sows the seeds for a bumper crop of gardenersFeb 09, 2021 4:30 am - Still in the throes of the deadly coronavirus and the pain of pandemic restrictions, we gaze across the bleak, snow-covered tundra of suburbia and imagine what spring mi...
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Rozner: MLB's 2021 is getting off to a wretched startFeb 09, 2021 12:00 am - Spring training is still a week away and already baseball is ill, making its dwindling fan base sick in the process. It's hard to imagine the game being in worse hands t...