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Ideologues create avenue for Democrats to lose all 50 statesFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - How to lose 50 states: Easy. Nominate Bernie Sanders. I've been through my share of blowouts. I was a kid when George McGovern won Massachusetts - and nowhere else. I w...
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O'Donnell: NBA, MLB and NFL all going down a rough midwinter chuteFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - WHEN ONE OF THE MOST PATHETIC WEEKENDS in the new-mill history of sports is hitting America in the schnozz, what is there to do but call it what it is? And that would be...
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Ethics reform rates high on Illinoisans' wish listFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - Filmmakers John Davies and Brian Kallies last year held screenings across the state of their documentary on Illinois corruption, titled "Lincoln is Crying." Abraham Lin...
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Rozner: Why Joe Maddon is trying to revise Cubs history just a bitFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - You can like the Cubs' decision to move on from Joe Maddon. Or not. You can agree with their call to end the relationship after five years. Or not. You can understand wa...
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UConn women loss not exactly doom and gloomFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - There was a tweet ESPNW put out this week about how the Connecticut women's basketball team had lost 2 games in the past 32 days. (Gasp!) The tweet noted that three year...
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Feder: Crain's Chicago Business teams up with WBEZ on 'Reset with Jenn White'Feb 14, 2020 12:00 am - It didn't take long for Crain's Chicago Business to land a new radio partner after getting the heave-ho from news/talk WGN 720-AM, Robert Feder reports. Starting this Mo...
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Will Ferrell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus can't save frosty drama 'Downhill'Feb 13, 2020 5:00 am - “Downhill” - ★ ★ “Downhill” - what a perfectly self-incriminating title for a comic domestic drama that wants to mash up “National Lampoon's Vacation” with Noah Baumbac...
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Entrepreneurship: The real team sportFeb 13, 2020 12:00 am - In a recent episode of "SportsCenter," discussing the life and legacy of Kobe Bryant, sportscaster Stephen A. Smith related a story about Bryant's post-NBA career aspira...
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At 100, League still has work to do to expand votingFeb 13, 2020 12:00 am - 2020 is a special year when we commemorate 100 years of women's suffrage in the United States. Passage of the 19th Amendment was a major milestone along the path for equ...
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Feder: New documentary follows Mike Adamle's epic struggleFeb 13, 2020 12:00 am - Kim Adamle does most of the talking in the first half of a new documentary about her husband's struggles with the symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. But it's ...