Columns
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Trump goes all silent treatmentAug 12, 2022 1:00 am - Former President Donald Trump has every right to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as he did Wednesday during a civil deposition conducted by ...
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Lincicome: Baseball in a cornfield? Corny. But imagine life without America's national pastimeAug 12, 2022 1:00 am - The hologram of Harry Caray was spooky, but then this whole notion of baseball in a cornfield is creepy, going back to the book and the movie when Shoeless Joe Jackson w...
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Merlin Bird ID app is changing how we go birdingAug 11, 2022 6:00 am - If the party involves technology, I usually arrive late. But I'm there now and having a wonderful time. With my new friend, Merlin. You know those smartphone apps that t...
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Widescreen: 'Prey' is one of the summer's greatest entertainment success storiesAug 11, 2022 6:00 am - "Prey," the exciting, surprisingly beautiful prequel to the 1987 monster mash "Predator," debuted on Hulu last weekend to the biggest audience in the streaming platform'...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: How will future McCulloughs see our time?Aug 11, 2022 1:00 am - The death this week of historian David McCullough has rekindled a line of thinking that I've dwelt on a lot recently. It follows from this question: "How will historians...
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Guest columnist Greg Pagliuzza: Although imperfect, climate bill is crucial for America's futureAug 11, 2022 1:00 am - God made carbon. Carbon is good. It is essential for life as we know it, including ourselves. Yet, we suffer when too much of it lands in our atmosphere as it is now. It...
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Wheaton actor/director/educator returns to the stage in Copley Theatre's 'Fun Home'Aug 10, 2022 11:00 pm - Late last year, theater artist and former BoHo Theatre artistic director Stephen Schellhardt stepped away from the theater that had been his artistic home for six years....
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Loving super-nutritious broccoli is easy when it's dressed just rightAug 10, 2022 6:00 am - This is a best of Lean and lovin' it column, first published on June 19, 2018. Don Mauer is taking some time off. Who loves broccoli? Hmm, not that many hands went up. B...
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Sound check: Jason Aldean in Tinley Park; The Venue's Americana Music FestAug 10, 2022 6:00 am - Americana under the Aurora stars The Venue wraps up its summer music season with the three-day Americana Music Festival this weekend. Friday, Chicago Farmer & the Fieldn...
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Summer zucchini seems to be everywhere; here are tasty ways to use itAug 10, 2022 6:00 am - If you have friends, family or neighbors who garden, it's about this time of year that they are all trying to pawn off their harvest of zucchini for whoever will take it...