Columns
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Widescreen: Andrew Lloyd Webber's free videos became my pandemic soundtrackMay 08, 2020 6:00 am - "Night time sharpens / Heightens each sensation" - "The Music of the Night," from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" • • • "School days, school days / Dear...
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You can't go to Swedish Days, but you can read 'The Swedish Days Swindle'May 08, 2020 5:57 am - Having the Swedish Days festival in Geneva canceled because of coronavirus was a tough blow to area residents who look forward to that major summer event. The Fox Valley...
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After three years, who are we now?May 08, 2020 1:00 am - A week after Donald Trump was elected president, writer and scholar Sarah Kendzior, who had predicted in 2015 that he would win, wrote a public letter to the American pu...
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U.S. women's national soccer playersv ows to continue fight for equal pay despite setbackMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - The mess that is U.S. Soccer continues. The 28 women of the highly successful U.S. national team have been pounding the drum in a gender discrimination lawsuit against U...
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Feder: Independent media outlets launch joint fundraiserMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - At a time when reliable local news has never been more important, many Chicago area publications and websites are fighting for survival amid drastic declines in revenue,...
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We must protect our elections against coronavirusMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - By Mike Quigley and Nita M. Lowey Guest columnists If you had asked us a year ago to identify threats to the 2020 election, we would have said Russian interference and s...
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O'Donnell: 'Secret Sox' - Sunday's 'Last Dance' episodes have it allMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - WITH ITS END NIGHT of May 17 approaching, ESPN's "The Last Dance" finally goes full throttle Sunday night. In Episodes 7 and 8, the Michael Jordan imaging venture uses s...
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Constable: Mother's Day brunches give way to COVID-19 loneliness, confusionMay 07, 2020 5:00 am - I've written dozens of Mother's Day columns during my newspaper career. This will be my first Mother's Day without my mom. Lois Constable died in November at age 92. I r...
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Where is everyone going?May 07, 2020 1:00 am - I live in Los Angeles County, where new coronavirus cases are showing up as fast as anywhere in the country. We're on lockdown. We were the first state to be told to sta...
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Rozner: Dave Otto remembers role in Jordan's baseball careerMay 07, 2020 1:00 am - Dave Otto has an absurd knack for finding the camera. It's not just that he's 6-foot-7, though that doesn't hurt. It's that he always seems to make his way onto the tele...