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How long until we have a healing change of heart on raceJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - Lord, how long? George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with both his hands securely cuffed behind his back, is murdered by four police officers when one applied life-t...
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Feder: Steve Cushing celebrates 40 years of 'Blues Before Sunrise'Jun 04, 2020 1:00 am - It's been 40 years since Steve Cushing launched "Blues Before Sunrise," the five-hour weekly public-radio showcase for vintage blues, R&B and gospel recordings spanning ...
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Trump's above the Twitter lawJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - In January 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump bragged that his supporters were so loyal that he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I would...
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Bears linebacker Trevathan: 'Let's not forget about corona'Jun 04, 2020 12:00 am - While most of us have been focused on the tragic death of George Floyd over the past 10 days, it is easy to forget that it has really had nothing to do with the radical ...
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A soup that makes you work for those sublime resultsJun 03, 2020 6:00 am - As I was standing at my kitchen counter grating two pounds of tomatoes, I started wondering if this was going to be worth it. Sitting on my deck a few hours later, tasti...
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O'Donnell: Cavalry arriving at Arlington? Emergency Racing Board meeting FridayJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - ARE THOSE SKELETONS rattling at Northwest Highway and Wilke a renewed possibility of some sort of live thoroughbred racing at Arlington Park this summer? Or is it merely...
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Feder: TV news crews become targets on the streetJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - The hazards of journalism became all too real this week for TV news crews in Chicago, Robert Feder writes. Ken Bedford, a photographer for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, was ...
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Just take your feet off their necksJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - Almost 200 years ago, Sarah Grimké, an anti-slavery and feminist activist said: "I ask no favors ... I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is ...
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What leadership meansJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - History can be cruel. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was unquestionably America's most prominent prophet and practitioner of nonviolence, was followed ...
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In a word, dishonorJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - The actions of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the tragic death of George Floyd last week have been met with righteous outrage throughout the country. Police...