Columns
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Copley Theatre's 'Hand to God' is a wrenching, riotous examination of the war withinJun 03, 2022 8:00 am - “Hand to God” - ★ ★ ★ Rarely has the war within been portrayed as wrenchingly and as riotously as it is in director Trent Stork's fiendishly funny revival of “Hand to Go...
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Why some people have chairs named after them at Stockholm's restaurant in GenevaJun 03, 2022 6:00 am - Charley James would undoubtedly approve of where his “chair” is situated at Stockholm's Restaurant & Brewery in downtown Geneva. One of the chairs right up against the b...
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How Lake County plans to deploy 'interrupters' to fight surge in gun violenceJun 03, 2022 5:30 am - When a gunman approached two men outside a Waukegan restaurant Sunday and shot both in the head, killing one and gravely injuring the other in apparent retaliation for a...
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Guest columnist state Sen. Laura Ellman: Law will help reduce opioid overdose deathsJun 03, 2022 1:00 am - In 2018 at the young age of 25, Alex Green, a Naperville community member, lost his life from an overdose due to fentanyl. He was with others at the time of his overdose...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Will Russia's invasion of Ukraine spark the next World War?Jun 03, 2022 1:00 am - For years, Jonas Ohman, who founded the Blue/Yellow NGO after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, believed the West considered Ukraine as "a nuisance." He believed he underst...
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Feder: Sun-Times hires Jennifer Kho as executive editorJun 03, 2022 1:00 am - Jennifer Kho, a Los Angeles-based digital media consultant and former managing editor of HuffPost and Guardian US, was named executive editor of the Sun-Times Thursday. ...
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Learn how to make homemade gyros in virtual cooking class SaturdayJun 02, 2022 11:00 pm - I still remember my first gyros. I was in high school and had walked with a friend to a nearby fast-food restaurant for lunch. Once inside, I discovered a bustling resta...
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'Crimes of the Future': Cronenberg's disturbing, cutting-edge tale of organ donors dulled by passive characters, slow paceJun 02, 2022 6:00 am - “Crimes of the Future” - ★ ★ ½ “Crimes of the Future” represents a cinematic distillation of everything we've come to expect - and fear - from the works of visionary ho...
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Sound check: Marcy Playground, Cracker play Alt-Rock Rager in AuroraJun 02, 2022 6:00 am - Alt-Rock Rager Alternative rock rules as The Piazza brings some long-running stalwarts and Chicago-area favorites together in Aurora for the Alt-Rock Rager this we...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: When celebrity squabbles make the front pageJun 02, 2022 1:00 am - If you're lucky to live long enough, you will come to a time when much of the rest of the population finds you quaintly amusing for being so out of touch with what reall...