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Kane County sheriff, jail inmates talk reform and recidivism on new podcastOct 09, 2020 5:30 am - Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain has added another tool to his reform efforts at the Kane County jail: a podcast on which he interviews detainees. "A Sheriff and His Inmates...
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Feder: ProPublica Illinois to double reporting staff, expand coverageOct 09, 2020 1:00 am - ProPublica Illinois, which launched in 2017 as the first local outpost of the award-winning investigative news organization, announced plans for a major expansion Thursd...
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De Niro squanders his movie legacy in juvenile family comedy 'The War With Grandpa'Oct 09, 2020 1:00 am - “The War With Grandpa” - ★ ★ Inconceivable. Yep, that's the word. During the 1970s and 1980s, it would have been inconceivable that Robert De Niro, the most incend...
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IHSA basketball season still up in the air, masks or no masksOct 09, 2020 1:00 am - Mask, or no mask? While that question continues to envelop our country, it is now seeping its way into the high school sports world - specifically basketball, which is n...
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Very veteran WNBA veterans still getting it doneOct 09, 2020 1:00 am - So what do NFL quarterback Tom Brady, NBA forward LeBron James and WNBA guards Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi have in common? Bird, in the wake of winning the fourth champio...
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Constable: Downers Grove Girl Scout wins National Gold Award for creating sex assault databaseOct 08, 2020 5:30 am - A middle school friend's “sexual assault crisis” and the lasting and traumatic effects it had on the girl inspired Therese Malinowski of Downers Grove to make a differen...
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When movie audiences return, will theaters still be there in the suburbs?Oct 08, 2020 5:15 am - The question that haunts me most about our endangered local movie theaters is this: What if by the time audiences finally return, there aren't any theaters to return to?...
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Feder: Stefan Holt rejoins NBC 5 'like he had never left'Oct 08, 2020 1:00 am - In a week of happy homecomings for Chicago television news anchors, Stefan Holt made his comeback to NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 after four years away, Robert Feder writes....
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Remember the riots? They're still happeningOct 08, 2020 1:00 am - It wasn't too long ago that the news was filled with reports of violent protests in Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Washington, D.C., and other cities around the nation. And ...
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Feder: Matt Moog named interim CEO of Chicago Public MediaOct 08, 2020 1:00 am - Chicago Public Media announced today that it has postponed its search for a new chief executive officer until next year and appointed tech entrepreneur Matt Moog interim...