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Schools will benefit from vote for 'fairness'Oct 25, 2020 1:00 am - As a teacher who works in a well-funded suburban district in Illinois, I always joke with my CPS teacher friends that they should join the dark side and "come to the sub...
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Arkush: Bears, Rams each face toughest challenge yetOct 25, 2020 1:00 am - This will be the toughest test of the season to date for both teams when the Bears visit the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night. While the 5-1 Bears have played both the 4...
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Flat tax vote will shape the state's future - and not for the betterOct 25, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois voters will cast the most important vote of their lifetime on Nov. 3, one that will determine whether our state can make a full economic recovery following the ...
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Conversion condominium may have been an apartmentOct 24, 2020 7:00 am - Q: I am looking to purchase my first condominium unit. My real estate agent referred to one of the properties I am looking at as a new "conversion condominium." What doe...
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The long run of isolation requires 'social cheerfulness'Oct 24, 2020 6:00 am - I write about long-term grief. But now we are also faced with long-term "stay at home." It crept up on us. We are already at the seventh-month mark of relative isolation...
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How Stevenson grad landed her dream job in ESPN's NBA Bubble coverageOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - To pass the time in the NBA Bubble over the summer and fall, Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat started his own coffee shop. "He ran it out of his hotel room and he named it...
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Constable: Suburban teacher on ballot as third-party VP candidateOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - In the 2016 presidential election, Amar Patel of Lombard was so turned off by the prospect of choosing between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that he voted for himself...
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Kanye ahead? Only in mock dataOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - Rapper and presidential candidate Kanye West recently touted poll numbers out of Kentucky, which showed him leading Donald Trump and Joe Biden in that state's race. "GET...
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Twenty-five years after Fox River Grove crash, the healing continuesOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - There are days in life we all remember. Oct. 27, 1995, is on my list. That was the night, in my first year at the Daily Herald, I was assigned to cover Cary-Grove at Cry...
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Baseball Way Back: Idea of LaRussa return raises memories of past revivalsOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - I used to tell friends I will remain young as long as Harold Baines is still playing. I enjoyed quite an extended youth as a result. Now I'm ready to say I won't be old ...