Columns
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Feder: Julie Mann resigns as managing editor of WBBM NewsradioDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - Julie Mann, the first-rate broadcast journalist who has led the newsroom of WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM as managing editor for more than a decade, is leaving after 25 year...
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Feder: WTTW's Geoffrey Baer lifts viewers 'Beyond Chicago From the Air'Dec 01, 2021 12:00 am - When Geoffrey Baer was promoted to vice president of original content production for television at WTTW-Channel 11 in 2019, fans may have wondered whether the veteran pr...
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Former White Sox Cy Young winner LaMarr Hoyt dies at 66Dec 01, 2021 12:00 am - LaMarr Hoyt, who pitched for the White Sox from 1979 to 1984 and won the American League Cy Young Award in 1983, died Monday in Columbia, S.C., after a lengthy illness. ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Double guaranteed - someone will coach The Fighting Irish next seasonDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - MAYBE THE BIG FOOTBALL INTELLIGENCE - the cosmic force that calls all of the shots on and around gridirons everywhere - has a sense of humor. If it does, Matt Nagy will ...
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Leaving politics behind for a life of pieDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - Donald Trump has not been reinstated as president; dark forces continue to conceal Hillary's emails; it seems all those school shootings really happened; and no dead mem...
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From just me to #MeToo to not you - Part IDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - In 1974, when I walked out of an alley in Boston's Back Bay, it was pretty much "just me." Of course, millions of women were raped (we didn't have a word for sexual hara...
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Defying gravity ... again: 'Wicked' will return to ChicagoNov 30, 2021 5:00 am - “Wicked,” the blockbuster musical whose initial Chicago run grossed more than $200 million, breaking box office records, will return to Chicago next fall, Broadway in Ch...
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Constable: Grayslake native leaps to 'Frogger' gloryNov 30, 2021 4:30 am - Not many careers prepare you for surfing on the back of a slippery plastic hippo, flying through the air on a giant parrot, leaping from moving fake alligators to spinni...
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Kyle Rittenhouse's offense: insufficiently respecting riotersNov 30, 2021 12:00 am - Why the hatred of Kyle Rittenhouse? Why was there such widespread dishonest news coverage of the case against him that his acquittal by the Kenosha, Wisconsin, jury came...
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Some things to remember about blame, credit for gasoline pricesNov 30, 2021 12:00 am - I'm the first to admit that I should have paid closer attention to Samuelson when I took Econ260, but one thing that I do remember is that high prices are an antidote fo...