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The 2020 census: Small Republican gains in a nation hunkered downMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - The COVID-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia at nearly one-third of a billion - 331,449,281 - ...
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Illini win sixth-straight Big Ten golf championshipMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - Mike Small couldn't compete in last week's PGA Professionals Championship in Florida - which offers a spot in the field for the PGA Championship in two weeks at Kiawah i...
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Charles Leno may have deserved better but it was time to goMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - If the Bears were going to cut Kyle Fuller to begin the cleanup of their stifling salary cap issues — which they did to save approximately $11 million — then they had ab...
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FDA's anti-smoking proposals head toward slippery slope of regulationsMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - If it doesn't look like avocado toast, you can't have it. That's the message I get loud and clear from Uncle Sam when I read story after story about the Food and Drug Ad...
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Feder: Weigel expands memorable entertainment menu with 'MeTV Plus'May 03, 2021 1:00 am - Weigel Broadcasting is about to launch a new 24/7 digital network to extend the brand and expand the audience of MeTV, its "Memorable Entertainment Television" franchise...
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Rozner: Home run derby to decide a game? Baseball is becoming a three-ring circusMay 03, 2021 1:00 am - It doesn't seem like that long ago, maybe a few years, that I was joking about this very thing on the radio. It was that someday - if he had his way - baseball commissio...
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There are no shortcuts to becoming a competent inspectorMay 02, 2021 7:31 am - Q: I'd like to become a home inspector and would like to know the cheapest way to learn how to do this. What do you recommend? A: If you are serious about learning the c...
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Book highlights how Aurora literacy center helps immigrant womenMay 02, 2021 5:30 am - A new book by Chicago-based author and freelance journalist Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk tells stories of five Latina immigrant women who changed their lives after learning ...
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Grammar Moses: Five-letter words that start with FMay 02, 2021 5:30 am - Shame on those of you who thought with a headline like that I was going to break the Numero Uno rule at this newspaper and use the dreaded four-letter F-word. Which, of ...
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Facts Matter: Biden overstated travel with China presidentMay 02, 2021 5:30 am - In his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, President Joe Biden "stretched the truth" when he went off script and ad-libbed, according to The Washin...