Columns
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Jim O'Donnell: Penny-pinching of the Bears pales against the urgency of Harbaugh and the ChargersFeb 01, 2024 6:00 am - IF JIM HARBAUGH HAD ZERO INTEREST in the Chicago Bears, why should the village of Arlington Heights and adjacent communities be any different? Harbaugh will be introd...
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Aging gracefully: Former NFL player LaCosse beginning second career back home in NapervilleFeb 01, 2024 6:00 am - Matt LaCosse does not like down time. “I don’t sit around well,” he said. Soon after the Naperville North graduate retired from the New England Patriots in July 2022, en...
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Finally, Biden admits there’s a crisis at the borderJan 31, 2024 6:26 pm - What do you call it when somewhere between 6 million and 8 million people enter the United States illegally in the course of three years? Many people would call it a cris...
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Corrupt enterprise: A poisoned, poisonous UN agency in Gaza faces the musicJan 31, 2024 11:49 am - It is Albert Einstein who is credited with observing that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results." If that is so, it is finally comin...
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A painful finish for suburbanite Streelman at Farmers Insurance OpenJan 31, 2024 6:00 am - Wheaton’s Kevin Streelman has been the Chicago area’s most successful PGA Tour player since joining the circuit in 2008. He has $26.7 milllion in career winnings to show ...
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Why have things gone so wrong for the Blackhawks?Jan 30, 2024 2:53 pm - John Dietz takes a look at why things have unraveled so badly for the Blackhawks this season.
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Mideast Sisyphus: The diplomatic hill Blinken, Burns must climbJan 30, 2024 11:55 am - Pity Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and CIA Director Bill Burns. They have been plunged into the caldron that is the Middle East and now face the Sisyphean task of tr...
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Ooh, that smellJan 30, 2024 11:54 am - My wife, who worked at a desk 13 feet away from me in the newsroom, noticed it first. "The parking lot of the Walmart reeks of weed," she said. "I mean all the time. In t...
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New research shows what a Child Tax Credit would mean for Illinois’ families and economyJan 30, 2024 8:27 am - Last month, I noted that Illinois recently has experienced positive economic developments but we are falling behind on the issue of child poverty, which has more than dou...
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Suburban charity calls on churches this Lenten season to help fund clinic farms in UgandaJan 29, 2024 5:29 pm - About 10 years ago, Our Lady of the Wayside parish in Arlington Heights sent Deacon Don Grossnickle on a mission to Uganda. Grossnickle’s fundraising to establish a farm that would support a surgery clinic there received generous community support. Grossnickle and his foundation are now calling on suburban churches to help raise enough money to open 10 more clinic farms in 2024.