Columns
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Neither heat, rain, cold nor drought can stop local sweet corn cropJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - In this dickens of a summer, the worst of times has given us a tale of too much sour weather for sweet corn at Wiltse's Farm Produce in Maple Park: Too wet. Too cold. To...
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O'Donnell: Bzdelik to Pelicans; Arkush back for 32nd season of "Pro Football Weekly"Jul 19, 2019 1:00 am - SIGNING WILL BE SUCH sweet payback for Jeff Bzdelik, the Prospect High grad (Class of '71) who disconnected as associate head coach of the Houston Rockets in May. Bzdeli...
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Entrepreneur finds niche in selling refurbished Apple itemsJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Scott Pauga - like many young adults starting their careers - left college deep in debt, but he was determined to find a way out. As a young entrepreneur, he started out...
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Feder: WBBM Newsradio starts beaming from BloomingdaleJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Listeners aren't likely to tell the difference, but all-news WBBM 780-AM began broadcasting Thursday from a new radio tower just off Army Trail Road in Bloomingdale, Rob...
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Lottery Week celebrates contributions to IllinoisJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - In its first year of existence 45 years ago, the Illinois Lottery created its first millionaire. Her name was Irene Halley, and since then we've made 1,895 additional mi...
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'The Art of Self-Defense' paints comic portrait of American machismoJul 18, 2019 6:00 am - "The Art of Self-Defense" - ★ ★ ★ Be prepared for a savage indictment of American masculinity on a horrifyingly hilarious level. "I want to be what intimidates me," Case...
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The newspaper as a magical looking glass into historyJul 18, 2019 1:00 am - Stacked safely away in my attic are some keepsakes I rarely look at but could never part with. There is the Nov. 3, 2016, edition of the Daily Herald and several other n...
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The next steps for our communityJul 18, 2019 1:00 am - It has been a long, difficult 16 months since the city of Elgin experienced its first officer-involved fatal shooting in more than 20 years. On March 12, 2018, the Elgin...
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Feder: 'Timing just feels right' for radio entrepreneur Sam AlexJul 18, 2019 1:00 am - Sam Alex is living proof that radio dreams still come true, Robert Feder writes. Sixteen years after he started as an intern for a Chicago radio station, the northwest s...
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Piano man David Kellen back at the keyboard in GenevaJul 17, 2019 11:00 pm - For most of his life, David Kellen could count on his time at the piano keyboard as a stabilizing force, and surely his purpose in life. It was his ultimate go-to happy ...