Columns
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Syndicated columnist Elwood Watson: A police interaction with a young, black girl with a happy endingFeb 08, 2023 12:00 am - Last month, the Yale School of Public Health held a ceremony to celebrate Bobbi Wilson, a 9-year-old Black kid from Caldwell, New Jersey, whose efforts to eradicate spot...
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O'Donnell: Cubs, Bears, Sox - where didn't Andy McKenna leave his mark?Feb 08, 2023 12:00 am - IN THE IMMEDIATE MOMENTS after Harry Caray called his inaugural game at Wrigley Field as a Cubs play-by-play man, he wanted to see only one man. And it wasn't Milo Hamil...
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What's more dangerous, a gang member or an activist?Feb 08, 2023 12:00 am - Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts are an unlikely pair. Both grew up in Denver, but Rubinstein is a journalist and Roberts is an ex-gang-member-turned-activist who ...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Things have changed, but still ...Feb 07, 2023 12:00 am - I remember when cops on duty used to wear those bulgy-looking shoes that were, in fact, ordinary dress shoes. They wore them for ceremonial occasions, too, and they wore...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: We don't need racial quotas to showcase America's diversityFeb 07, 2023 12:00 am - The ordinarily fluent and unperturbed Justice Elena Kagan seemed, judging from the transcript, to be sputtering a bit in the oral argument of the Supreme Court's case ch...
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Drury Lane's 'A Chorus Line' a singular sensation indeedFeb 06, 2023 4:00 pm - “A Chorus Line” - ★ ★ ★ ★ If you passed by Drury Lane Theatre during last week's opening of “A Chorus Line” and didn't know better, you might have mistaken periodic roar...
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Aurora crowns inaugural Mr. and Miss Black teen pageant winnersFeb 06, 2023 4:00 am - Eight Black teens from Aurora made history Saturday as contestants in the city's inaugural Mr. and Miss Black Aurora Pageant. Peter Eta, a senior at Waubonsie Valley Hig...
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Debuts, hot hybrids and electric trucks: What to look for at this year's Chicago Auto ShowFeb 06, 2023 4:00 am - Two halls, seven indoor test tracks, more than 175 production and debut vehicles. Plus, a chance to run like a kid around McCormick Place. After two years in low gear, t...
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Home's water has become discoloredFeb 05, 2023 5:00 am - Q: We have a well for the water supply to our vacation home. Until recently, the water quality was perfect, but the water has suddenly become discolored. A neighbor advi...
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Good News Sunday: Wauconda firefighters brave icy conditions to rescue doe from Fox RiverFeb 05, 2023 5:00 am - Good News Sunday: Wauconda firefighters brave icy conditions to rescue doe from Fox River