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A major consideration in job valueOct 24, 2019 1:00 am - A headline doesn't have to be on Page 1 to catch your eye. Here's one from Page 16 on Sunday that got mine: "Top economists say the world still needs English majors." Ph...
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Waubonsie Valley's Murphy just kept workingOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - Trust him. The man knows what he's doing. Maybe we'll see it one last time. Urgent shouts to "Hurry up! C'mon, get going!" rain down from the Kerner Stadium grandstand a...
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Feder: Where's the stamp for Walter Cronkite?Oct 23, 2019 1:00 am - On Tuesday the U.S. Postal Service announced that it would honor the late journalist Gwen Ifill with a Forever postage stamp in 2020. As the 43rd stamp in the Postal Ser...
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Rozner: No surprise David Ross is the next Cubs manager. Is he ready for the job?Oct 23, 2019 1:00 am - When Ryan Dempster famously said of Mike Quade, “He's one of us,” it was a frightening thought. A manager isn't supposed to be friends with the players. He's the players...
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U.S. in moral declineOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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O'Donnell: Jay Mariotti is monitoring changing tides of Chicago sports talkOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - JAY MARIOTTI HAS BEEN LOATHED, Jay Mariotti has been respected. There has been no more polarizing individual on the Chicago sports media terrain in the past half century...
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Impeachment comes down to a question of consequencesOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - The impeachment of President Donald Trump has reached an early point of absurdity. Just about everyone in Washington believes that a quid pro quo - in which Trump used ...
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Arkush: Is this 3-3 Bears team really that different than last year's 3-3 team?Oct 23, 2019 12:00 am - The most surprising thing in Bears head coach Matt Nagy's press conference the day after an embarrassing loss to the New Orleans Saints was that, over the entire 24 minu...
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Geneva civil rights advocate receives prestigious Barth AwardOct 22, 2019 11:00 pm - If just being a good guy would help land the top volunteer award from TriCity Family Services, Loy Williams of Geneva would win without doing much of anything else. But ...
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Barrington author's book recalls Depression-era childhood in ChicagoOct 22, 2019 6:00 am - Bernice Lafoe of Barrington will turn 90 in January, and life continues to be an adventure for her. Consider her most recent weekend gig, when she was the guest author a...