Columns
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Beware of dog: Pet scams surge as demand for 'quarantine puppies' risesDec 04, 2020 4:30 am - Scam artists have no qualms about tugging on our heartstrings, and that includes when we're getting a fluffy kitten or playful “quarantine” puppy to keep us company as w...
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Rozner: Plummeting Bears have easy schedule on their sideDec 04, 2020 12:00 am - By this time in 2014, Virginia McCaskey had already made up her mind about Phil Emery and Marc Trestman. If that's not the case this time around with Ryan Pace and Matt ...
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Hamilton: History will revile COVID-19 deniersDec 04, 2020 12:00 am - When the history of this era is written, special attention should be reserved for the prominent U.S. politicians who dismissed or misrepresented the COVID-19 pandemic fo...
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Feder: Cubs TV announcer Len Kasper named radio voice of White Sox on ESPN 1000Dec 04, 2020 12:00 am - Len Kasper, who's been the TV play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Cubs for 16 years, is the new radio voice of the Chicago White Sox, the team announced Friday. The a...
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DePaul women making playing basketball in masks look easyDec 04, 2020 12:00 am - I went for a run on Sunday in a forest preserve. What would it be like, I thought, if I ran while wearing a COVID face mask? Definitely not easy. Or fun. Getting air dee...
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Sowell: Remembering Walter E. WilliamsDec 04, 2020 12:00 am - Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his newspaper colum...
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'Dear Santa' documentary a heartwarming gift about the power of generosityDec 03, 2020 5:00 am - “Dear Santa” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Dana Nachman's documentary “Dear Santa” is an accomplished journalistic work of nonfiction that profiles altruistic human actions at their true Ch...
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Constable: Childhood fun in nature inspires Geneva writer's poetryDec 03, 2020 4:30 am - Growing up on Chicago's Gold Coast as the son of a prestigious doctor, Rick Holinger of Geneva had his “epiphany” on the edge of the Catskill Mountains while he was a st...
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Williams: Black education doesn't have to be a tragedyDec 03, 2020 12:00 am - Editor's note: Walter E. Williams died Wednesday at age 83. He delivered this, his last column, on Tuesday. Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investiga...
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Feder: Dish Network blackout of Nexstar stations exploits viewersDec 03, 2020 12:00 am - While Dish Network and Nexstar Media Group continue to play hardball on a retransmission agreement, viewers of "Chicago's Very Own" WGN-Channel 9 and WGN America cable n...