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Lincicome: The Cubs will celebrate again, and this season tooSep 27, 2025 10:00 am - Having rehearsed their celebration already, the Cubs have the photos and the stained laundry to prove that whatever happens next, the season wasn’t half bad, although it was only half good when you look at where the Cubs were once and where they are now. As Rick may have told Ilsa, they will always have Pittsburgh.
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Schwarz: Taking an opportunity to praise Joe Mansueto and the Chicago FireSep 26, 2025 11:49 am - After more than a decade of failures, the Chicago Fire is doing something deserving of praise, and a lot of it, writes sports editor Orrin Schwarz.
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A great unknown: Bears are intriguing, scary after 3 weeksSep 26, 2025 11:36 am - Now, in 2025, anything is possible as the 1-2 Bears prepare for a game with the Raiders in Las Vegas with a bye week on the horizon. Not everything, but anything.
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From midwife to turncoat: Britain and the Jewish StateSep 26, 2025 4:00 am - Way back during the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain had a reputation in Europe as “perfidious Albion.” The Cambridge English Dictionary defines “perfidious” as “unable t...
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Trump targets U.N. — like shooting fish in a barrelSep 26, 2025 4:00 am - WASHINGTON — The escalator stopped working as President Donald Trump and the first lady entered the United Nations on Tuesday. Then, as Trump began to deliver his speech ...
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How father, son with autism bonded through riding roller coastersSep 26, 2025 2:30 am - Tom Callsen and son Thomas, who has autism, have ridden 471 different roller coasters across the United States over the past 20 years, finding joy in the physical thrill and bonding experience.
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Benedictine ends Aurora’s long conference win streakSep 25, 2025 6:09 pm - Benedictine scored 3 fourth-quarter touchdowns and survived a long lightning delay to end Aurora’s 46-game conference win streak last Saturday.
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Is it ever reasonable to criticize high school athletes?Sep 25, 2025 5:40 pm - With the landscape of high school athletics changing -- and the finances -- has it become reasonable to criticize the athletes earning money?
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This is not funnySep 25, 2025 4:00 pm - “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, “this” being the suspension ...
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Silvy: Bears’ bounceback game boils down to Johnson’s coachingSep 25, 2025 6:00 am - We knew Bears coach Ben Johnson had the creative playbook, but many wondered if he would hold the team accountable without Dan Campbell at his side and if he could command the locker room. We also knew that the words would be hollow if the Bears didn’t take them to heart.