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Widescreen: Big-screen grandeur at the Music Box, and another milestone for John WilliamsFeb 07, 2020 5:00 am - The annual 70 mm Film Festival returns Thursday, March 5, to the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave, Chicago, with a two-week lineup of films presented in one of t...
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Could carrying lifesaving drug cost first responders their life insurance?Feb 07, 2020 4:31 am - As the opioid crisis claimed hundreds of victims in the suburbs, and tens of thousands nationwide, cartridges of the overdose-reversing agent naloxone became nearly as e...
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Palestinians should give Trump peace plan a chanceFeb 07, 2020 12:00 am - President Donald Trump's brilliant plan for Mideast peace has triggered a sandstorm of negativity and deflection from the regular naysayers who attack anything the presi...
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Area college players symbolize National Girls and Women in Sports DayFeb 07, 2020 12:00 am - National Girls and Women in Sports Day Wednesday gave area college sports teams reason to celebrate. National Girls and Women in Sports Day began in 1987 to bring nation...
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Feder: Bill Geist named to Illinois Broadcasters' Hall of FameFeb 07, 2020 12:00 am - Bill Geist, who retired in 2018 after 31 years as a correspondent for "CBS Sunday Morning," will be inducted this spring in the Illinois Broadcasters Association Hall of...
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Rozner: Cubs' Epstein not surprised he's gone from hero to target of fans' wrathFeb 07, 2020 12:00 am - It has been quite a while since the Cubs headed for Arizona after such a quiet winter - and on the heels of missing the playoffs. And the man who rescued the franchise f...
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O'Donnell: No place to go but up for revamping AM-1000Feb 07, 2020 12:00 am - TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO, full-time sports talk radio in Chicago began with modest expectations. They long ago were met. Modestly. Now, the brain-numbing niche is generall...
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Frankly, Mundelein's prolific scorer has winning attitudeFeb 07, 2020 12:00 am - With her love of shoes, Morgan Frank couldn't lose. A rare win for Mundelein's top girls basketball player presented itself. Sporting a pair of popular Kyrie Irving “Spo...
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Teaching the game could become a future for Libertyville's WatsonFeb 06, 2020 10:00 pm - Like many boys, Jackson Watson learned how to play sports from his dad. Basketball is dad Steve Watson's specialty. “My dad played basketball in college at Bowling Gree...
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Constable: Sugar Grove library offers waffle-maker, microscope, air compressor - and booksFeb 06, 2020 4:30 am - You can, of course, still swing by the local library to pick up a wonderful book. But patrons of the Sugar Grove Public Library have been visiting its Library of Wonderf...