Columns
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Lake County Preservation Foundation president champions the cause of the forestsJan 08, 2021 5:00 am - Growing up on the west side of Lake Forest, Nels Leutwiler has vivid memories of frequent childhood visits to Captain Daniel Wright Woods Forest Preserve in Mettawa. Lat...
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'We know how bad it is out there': How Wheeling police are helping people in needJan 08, 2021 4:30 am - We could all use some good news right about now. Thankfully, Wheeling police were there Thursday to give us some. More than a dozen officers helped pack up and deliver h...
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Feder: MeTV rises and shines with 'Toon In With Me'Jan 08, 2021 12:00 am - History will note that Bill Leff took his first pie in the face on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Undoubtedly there are more to come, Robert Feder writes. "Toon In With Me...
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Trump cost his party the Senate and the country even moreJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - What do you say of a man who openly seeks to subvert the Constitution and incites his supporters to take over the Capitol of the United States? He's not a president. He ...
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The 'Soulcraft' we need from lawmakers in House, SenateJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - In 1983, the conservative writer George Will wrote a slim volume entitled "Statecraft as Soulcraft" in which he argued that he did not see a problem of "big" government ...
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Brilliant 'Herself' delicately balances optimism with brutal realities of domestic abuseJan 07, 2021 5:00 am - “Herself” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Phyllida Lloyd's domestic drama “Herself” believes in the essential goodness of the common person, and the inevitable triumph of honesty and generosi...
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Constable: Attack from our own evokes gut punch of Sept. 11Jan 07, 2021 4:30 am - “We are no longer the America we were,” began the column I wrote on Sept. 11, 2001. The legendary Studs Terkel concurred during a telephone interview that morning as we ...
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Big 2nd half pushes No. 12 Illinois past NorthwesternJan 07, 2021 12:00 am - Illinois played the first half in Evanston on Thursday like it had never seen a zone. Northwestern's 3-2 zone baffled the Illini, and the Wildcats built a 43-28 halftime...
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Bears are underdogs, but are the Saints that much better?Jan 07, 2021 12:00 am - Can the Bears beat the New Orleans Saints Sunday? Absolutely. That was proved Week 8 at Soldier Field when the Bears played them to a standstill before falling in overti...
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Feder: Podcast delivers postmortem on Chicago's Edgewater HospitalJan 07, 2021 12:00 am - Among the dozen or so employees who lost their jobs in mass layoffs at Hubbard Radio Chicago last spring in the wake of the pandemic, few could claim the talent or the t...