Columns
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Taking a final look back at unique 2020 golf seasonOct 16, 2020 1:00 am - For all the frustrations of the recently completed fall golf season, one addition could be a game-changer for the sport. Golf teams began using the iWanamaker app this f...
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Constable: Prizes add to palette of artist, disability advocateOct 15, 2020 5:30 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com There are many ways to describe 39-year-old Reveca Torres of Prospect Heights, an artist whose work and life are taking inte...
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Forget all those defensive studs, Bears MVP is a special teamerOct 15, 2020 1:00 am - I submit that through five weeks of this 2020 season Cordarrelle Patterson is the Bears Most Valuable Player. He is in fact, a three-time first-team All Pro and three-ti...
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Vernon Hills baseball coach Czarnecki ready to step down after 19 seasonsOct 15, 2020 1:00 am - In some ways, the decision couldn't have been easier. In others, it couldn't have been more difficult. After 19 seasons, Jay Czarnecki stepped down recently as the head ...
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Feder: NBC 5 hires reporter Vi Nguyen from CBS 2Oct 15, 2020 1:00 am - Vi Nguyen, who's been a per diem reporter for CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 since 2018, has been hired full-time as a multimedia journalist and general assignment reporter fo...
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Turn that inexpensive cut of beef into Sunday night dinnerOct 14, 2020 6:00 am - One of my very favorite low-and-slow meats is a chuck roast, a seven-bone roast, to be exact. A seven-bone chuck roast doesn't have seven bones, just one shaped like a 7...
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The results of this Thai-style soup are worth all the effortOct 14, 2020 6:00 am - Right next to taffy apples and pumpkin spice lattes, butternut squash soup is one of my favorite fall foods. But I have to admit this dish gives me pause. There's always...
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Peterson: Nobel honored many Americans, Trump only noticed he wasn't one of themOct 14, 2020 1:00 am - Nobel Week has come and gone, and even in this pandemic year some things remained the same. Americans have been particularly well represented. Of the 12 individuals hono...
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O'Donnell: Aikman knew that yellow pixies - not the Bears - beat Tampa BayOct 14, 2020 1:00 am - TROY AIKMAN WAS working very hard to hold his tongue last Thursday night. And he almost succeeded. The Hall of Famer is far too facile an NFL broadcaster to go overboard...
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Dion: What it's like to be stuck in the middleOct 14, 2020 1:00 am - By Marc Munroe Dion Tonight, the wind is blowing hard where I live. I like that because it makes my office seem cozy. I don't like that because it scares the life out of...