Columns
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Urban-rural chasm defines new Western political splitDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - For Steve Bannon, the way to create an enduring populist majority is to combine forces on the left and right. That's why he was in Italy earlier this year, where parties...
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Michael Gerson: We need a revival of humanismDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson FLORENCE - A tourist in Florentine museums is like a skipping stone above unfathomable depths. Here a Botticelli. There a Donatello. A single room at t...
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Parent's job is to equip for disappointment, not discourageDec 17, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. I have 14-year-old daughter in her first year of high school. Recently, she told me she wants to try out for the drill team in the spring. She had some off-and-on da...
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Shedding light on the importance of darkness to natureDec 17, 2018 5:00 am - "Boy, it's dark!" I mutter at 4:30 p.m. when I leave the nature center. My husband winks as he reminds me that this happens every December and that I say exactly the sam...
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Family bond strong as Paynes team up at StreamwoodDec 17, 2018 12:01 am - When Kent Payne took over as Streamwood's boys basketball coach earlier this year, one of the first things he did was assemble a varsity assistant coaching staff. He did...
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Insurers should be focus of latest workers' comp debateDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - In 2011, at the urging of the state's leading business organizations, bipartisan majorities of Illinois lawmakers approved a workers' compensation overhaul aimed at redu...
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Feder: New WLS lineup moves Big John Howell to late afternoonsDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - By this time next week, you may not recognize WLS 890-AM, Robert Feder writes. Gone from the Cumulus Media news/talk station will be the morning show hosted by Big John ...
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Rozner: Does Blackhawks' Crawford have an NHL future?Dec 17, 2018 12:00 am - Corey Crawford is going to get a lot of free advice in the days and weeks to come. And it's worth precisely what it costs. While we wait to see if he returns to the Blac...
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Meet the downy woodpecker - designed for drilling holesDec 16, 2018 10:00 pm - If it weren't for owls, I'd be a woodpecker guy. Like owls, woodpeckers have some amazing adaptations. The downy woodpecker, our country's smallest woodpecker, can be fo...
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The newspaper legacy the Paddocks leave: Fearing God, telling the truth, making moneyDec 16, 2018 6:30 am - On Dec. 15, 1898, Hosea C. Paddock bought the Palatine Enterprise for $175 and started his newspaper business in the rural hamlets that would grow to become the modern N...