Columns
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Good News Sunday: Local restaurants host fundraisers for survivors of Maui wildfiresAug 27, 2023 6:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Although more than 4,000 miles away, the...
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Jim O'Donnell: Bellinger, Hoyer and Notre Dame to the Big Ten - the Ins and Outs of AugustAug 27, 2023 5:30 am - COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S ALREADY IN THE AIR and the NFL less than two weeks away: Isn't that why the Gregorian calendar has a September? Hot stuffs, cool punts, even if it's o...
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Lincicome: Sell the White Sox? How about stay and get betterAug 27, 2023 5:30 am - OK, so the White Sox have turned the page. Chances are the next page will be just as blank as the last page. The Sox have more blank pages than Wally's diary. Still, so...
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State and national athletic governing bodies agree: Hazing not tolerated on any level, especially in high schoolAug 27, 2023 1:00 am - When Northwestern University fired Pat Fitzgerald as its head football coach amid myriad allegations of hazing incidents within the program, the university served notice...
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Enough park land for every resident? Which suburban districts meet the national standardAug 26, 2023 1:00 am - With just 138 acres of property, the Park Ridge Park District's footprint is one of the smallest in the suburbs. The district serves nearly 40,000 people, though, which ...
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Facts Matter: Tropical Storm Hilary didn't flood Dodger StadiumAug 26, 2023 1:00 am - Tropical Storm Hilary hit downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 20, making it the wettest recorded August day in the California city, with 2.48 inches of rainfall, the National W...
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Beware: At just $19 a month, or 63 cents a day, those charitable pitches really add upAug 25, 2023 11:00 pm - By Susan Anderson-Khleif There is a new pitch afoot. It's in your email, it's in TV commercials. It's relentless. What is it? It is a broad array of organizations asking...
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Unit owners must keep condo association activeAug 25, 2023 6:00 am - Q: Our (self-managed Illinois) condominium association is comprised of eight units. Our declaration requires three to be board members. What would happen if we were unab...
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'Flat-out lied': Ex-Gurnee man imprisoned 29 years on bad conviction sues police, prosecutorsAug 25, 2023 5:00 am - Herman Williams spent almost three decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted of his former wife's 1993 murder. Now the former Gurnee resident and Gulf War veter...
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Politicians make a mockery out of 'emergency' spendingAug 25, 2023 1:00 am - Remember how, mere months ago, the debt-ceiling deal struck between Democrats and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown was touted as "an historic first step toward...