Columns
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Fright nights: Where to find haunted houses in the suburbsOct 26, 2022 11:00 pm - With Halloween only a few days away, the scare season is in full swing. That's especially true at the area's haunted houses. Here's a list of some places dialing up the ...
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Wicked concert weekend: There's plenty of music going around for HalloweenOct 26, 2022 2:00 pm - The spookiest of holidays looms, but with the tricks and treats falling on a Monday, many venues in the suburbs and Chicago are opting for a weekend of wacky tributes an...
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Try pumpkin raisin cookies for a Halloween treatOct 26, 2022 6:00 am - Editor's note: This column was first published on Oct. 25, 2011. Halloween's zipping down fall's highway and will be here before we know it. I'm a lousy pumpkin car...
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Sound check: Mike Doughty plays Evanston's SPACE, 'Troubadours' at Des Plaines TheatreOct 26, 2022 6:00 am - Mike Doughty solo Mike Doughty, founder of '90s alternative rock band Soul Coughing and more recently Ghost of Vroom, has also been making the rounds as a solo ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Are the Bears and Arlington Heights on a road to nowhere?Oct 26, 2022 1:00 am - AS WORLD WAR I wound down, the former German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg was asked how such a catastrophic event could have happened. His reply: “Ah, if onl...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: 7 Years in prison for a crime she did not commitOct 26, 2022 1:00 am - The year was 1995. Kristine Bunch was a 22-year-old single mother, wrongly arrested and charged and ultimately sentenced to 60 years in prison. For an accident. The smok...
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Guest columnist Ralph Martire: Bailey's statement on public education defies credibilityOct 26, 2022 1:00 am - During a recent interview, Darren Bailey, the Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, maintained the state ought to cut spending on public education. That positio...
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Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Fact checking, sanity needed in discussion of IRS hiringOct 25, 2022 1:00 am - One of the provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act passed in August provides for increased funding of roughly $80 billion over a decade for the Internal Revenue Servic...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Closed schools join with closed mindsOct 25, 2022 1:00 am - By Debra J. Saunders COVID school closures hurt American kids. American parents have seen it: The longer schools were closed and replaced with remote learning, the more...
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Guest columnist Chuck Sullivan: Amendment provides necessary assurance on union rightsOct 24, 2022 11:00 pm - When emergency strikes, every second matters. We all want the peace of mind that comes with knowing when we face the worst moments of our lives - a raging fire at our ho...