Columns
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Sound check: The War on X-Mas goes big and goes home (your home, that is)Dec 09, 2020 5:00 am - The War rages on There's lots of chatter about the war on Christmas out there, but Chicago music fans know where the real War on X-Mas is. This year, Chicago punk b...
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Some gift ideas for this most unusual gift-giving seasonDec 09, 2020 5:00 am - Gift-giving this season will be a little different. My first thoughts on gifts that I could give weren't for presents, but for helping people to eat and survive during t...
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Feder: ABC 7's Terrell Brown hosts 'Living While Black'Dec 09, 2020 12:00 am - Terrell Brown, morning news anchor at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, spent days inside the South Shore home of Tierra and Jermaine Muhammad, where they raised five children in...
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Hub Arkush: 6 people the Bears should pursue if they fire Ryan PaceDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - Should the Bears retain general manager Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy? If change is coming, the focus has to be on Pace. As long as he is not involved in the decisi...
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Elgin native Johnson headed to IBCA Hall of FameDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - When he was in seventh grade, Scott Johnson's love of basketball was born as he watched Elgin High games at the "snake pit," the Maroons' home prior to Chesbrough Field ...
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Andy Masur well-prepared to tackle next opportunity after season with White SoxDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - Major-league baseball can be a brutal business. Most players are astute enough to know it's best to rent housing in their home cities. One bad season — actually even one...
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Let's treat voting like the precious right it isDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - With just a handful of votes still uncounted, we now know that the U.S. had its highest voter turnout in more than a century at 66.7 percent of eligible voters in spite ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Pat Fitzgerald is much too happy to coach the BearsDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - PAT FITZGERALD HAS one glaring blind spot. It's called "excessive loyalty." Amid the upheaval and maneuvering of 2020, that should be downright refreshing. But once in a...
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Pelosi's costly Trump obsessionDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - One of the more appalling moments in the recent history of the House of Representatives occurred recently in the Capitol Visitor Center. Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her we...
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In 'put up or shut up' game, Illini come throughDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - Brad Underwood found a lot to like about No. 6 Illinois' 83-68 win at No. 10 Duke Tuesday in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, and one of his favorite plays didn't show up in t...