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New Blu-ray box, HBO Max's Looney library celebrate Bugs Bunny's 80th anniversarySep 26, 2020 6:00 am - Do you know the name of the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, or the year it premiered? Do you remember the last time you saw a vintage Bugs Bunny cartoon on television? Or the ...
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Constable: How Lisle native managed to run 7 marathons in one weekSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - Having run his first marathon in April 2018, Lisle native Peter Krzywosz cranked out a second 26.2-mile effort seven months later. Then, he posted his personal best time...
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What Hanover Park learned from equity town hallsSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - Hanover Park village leaders are developing action items to deliver services more equitably after a series of virtual town halls that wrapped up last week. Residents' fe...
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Grammar Moses: Is 'aqua-based cremation' really cremation?Sep 26, 2020 1:00 am - The story pitch went a little something like this: "A new business is seeking permission from the village board to open an aqua-based crematorium. As proposed, human and...
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Bears face toughest test to date in AtlantaSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - The Bears are one of 11 undefeated teams in the NFL and the Atlanta Falcons are one of 10 winless teams, yet the Falcons are 3-point favorites over the Bears in Atlanta ...
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Baseball Way Back: A black day for the White SoxSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - If you picked up a newspaper 100 years ago, Monday, Sept. 27, 1920, and turned to the sports page, you would have read that the White Sox were a half-game within first-p...
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Biden didn't use teleprompter during Telemundo interviewSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - The president's son, Eric Trump, on Wednesday retweeted a video that makes it appear Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is reading from prepared notes during an...
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Shopping in your own closetsSep 25, 2020 11:00 pm - I was talking with my sister and telling her how I found many useful (and lost) kitchen implements in a kitchen cupboard I had decided to clean out. It was too stuffed t...
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What type of insurance is needed to cover a mortgage?Sep 25, 2020 7:01 am - Q: Our mortgage company recently sent us an offer for us to buy credit life insurance. They claim if one of us dies, the insurance company will pay off the balance of ou...
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Report: Early support for stressed parents can cut crime down the lineSep 25, 2020 5:30 am - If we want to keep people out of jail, we need to pay more attention to them when they are in the cradle. That includes making sure young parents get the support they ne...