Columns
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Protecting Medicaid: A lifeline for many IllinoisansJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Anna Moeller: President Trump's budget bill will severely cut Medicaid, risking coverage for 330,000 state residents and closure of rural hospitals.
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Sculpture exhibit now year-round at Mount St. Mary Park in St. CharlesJul 18, 2025 3:00 am - The Sculpture in the Park exhibit at Mount St. Mary Park in St. Charles has transitioned to a year-round display, featuring new and permanent sculptures each year.
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Illinois health director praises coordinated effort to stop measles outbreakJul 17, 2025 3:27 pm - Illinois declares measles outbreak over after 10 cases in April-May. State credits local health departments' preventive measures and urges residents to stay up-to-date on MMR vaccine.
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Countdown to prep football: Seven new coaches on the sidelineJul 17, 2025 12:00 pm - Our countdown to high school football continues this week with seven new area coaches on the sideline this season.
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Pritzker warns 330,000 Illinoisans could lose Medicaid under Trump’s budget planJul 17, 2025 9:02 am - Despite a last-minute plea to Illinois’ Republican congressional delegation from Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, all three members voted in favor of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill...
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Who won the 2025 Chicago sports media survey?Jul 17, 2025 6:00 am - It had been three years since we did a Chicago sports media survey and the voters were ready. More than double the number of respondents turned up at the polls than in 2022 (5,191 in total, though most questions received around 4,500 votes).
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Looking sensibly at the State Department cutsJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: According to State Department documents, the total number of department employees has grown significantly over the years. After the addition of 22,874 employees, can a cut of 1,350 be “devastating"?
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A lesson on what journalism really does in a democracyJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: If you think that the lesson of Sage Gilliland’s exposé at Prospect High School is that good journalism helps bend that famous “arc of the moral universe” toward justice, I have something a little different to suggest.
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Rough summer league for Bulls, but Essengue improvement offers hopeJul 16, 2025 7:54 pm - Through four games of Bulls summer league, they have seen what matters most -- quick improvement from first-round pick Noa Essengue.
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12 hours of running: Man completes 54-mile Des Plaines River Trail in a single pushJul 16, 2025 2:50 pm - Scott Drews spent last summer chasing a personal challenge. After months of training, he ran the entire 54.5-mile Des Plaines River Trail — start to finish — in a single day.