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Sound check: Raue honors Aretha, Joe Cocker with 'SoulBliss' concertApr 27, 2022 6:00 am - Crystal Lake soul LaShera Moore and Derrick Procell celebrate the soulful, genre-blending legacies of two musical powerhouses — Aretha Franklin and Joe Cocker — as ...
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Don Mauer rethinks hard-boiled eggs with help from readersApr 27, 2022 6:00 am - Six weeks ago, I thought that writing about peeling a hard-boiled egg was so mundane a topic that I came close to not writing about it. As you may recall, I wrote about ...
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'He is a gift to the community': Libertyville teen's app connects food pantries with volunteersApr 27, 2022 5:15 am - Growing up in Libertyville, Tavish Sharma habitually volunteered with local charities, such as Feed My Starving Children and Northern Illinois Food Bank, because his par...
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Feder: Chicago Reader poised to become nonprofit after co-owner gives up fightApr 27, 2022 1:00 am - The next time some rich guy offers to rescue your newspaper, run the other way. That's one of the lessons from the fiasco that nearly destroyed the Chicago Reader after ...
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Harper, ECC semifinalists for $1 million Aspen Prize for community college excellenceApr 27, 2022 1:00 am - Harper College in Palatine and Elgin Community College are among 25 semifinalists for the 2023 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, officials announced Wednesda...
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No surprise: Toews and Kane believe Hawks can turn things around in a hurryApr 27, 2022 1:00 am - Professional athletes are nothing if not extremely optimistic. No matter how bleak things may appear from the outside, most pros believe they can win the next game, clim...
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Projecting all 6 Bears picks on the mock draft dart boardApr 27, 2022 1:00 am - I am not a fan of mock drafts. They portend a level of knowledge no one, including the very best of the NFL's general managers and personnel experts, can possibly have. ...
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From Johnny Depp to Rece Davis, an incomplete guide to the brawny NFL DraftApr 27, 2022 1:00 am - IF THE IMMORTAL WAYLON JENNINGS was singing about it, he might ask, "Don't you done think this NFL Draft bit's done got out of hand?" Instead, beginning Thursday night o...
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LaVine could miss Game 5 after entering health and safety protocolsApr 26, 2022 11:00 am - With the potential final game of the season looming, one more round of bad luck seems appropriate for the Bulls. The team confirmed Zach LaVine entered health and safety...
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Spotlight: Chekhov's 'Seagull' inaugurates Steppenwolf's new in-the-round theaterApr 26, 2022 6:00 am - A re-imagined classic Steppenwolf Theatre's Jeff Perry returns to the theater he co-founded for fellow ensemble member Yasen Peyankov's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Se...