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Film adaptation of 'The Goldfinch' a disjointed, impassionate coming-of-age dramaSep 12, 2019 6:00 am - "The Goldfinch" - ★ ★ Donna Tartt took 11 years to write her 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Goldfinch." John Crowley's film adaptation feels almost as long. May...
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Constable: Scooters? Schaumburg collector says Whizzers are 'like being pushed by an angel'Sep 12, 2019 5:00 am - A study released this week by a transportation data and analytics company promotes scooters and electric bicycles as an economical way to ease traffic congestion and pol...
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Through Mark Sanford's looking glassSep 12, 2019 1:00 am - CHARLESTON, S.C. - Once upon a time, Mark Sanford might have been a contender, but there's too much water under the bridges that stretch from this city of steeples to hi...
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Maine South's Skoronski - humble in life, fierce on the fieldSep 12, 2019 1:00 am - There has to be a Lombardi connection. "You know what ... there probably is," Peter Skoronski said, as if something clicked right then and there. "I never even thought a...
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Trump and his GOP challengersSep 12, 2019 1:00 am - Mark Sanford, the former representative and governor of South Carolina, has now joined former representative Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld in cha...
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History of weight loss and sustainable programs that kept it offSep 11, 2019 6:00 am - It's not a brand-new cookbook, it was published in 2018, but it's still a dandy one. Late last year, after using some of Primal Kitchen's products (then owned by Mark Si...
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O'Donnell: Pedigreed Karmazin preparing to take his shot with moribund AM-1000Sep 11, 2019 1:00 am - CRAIG KARMAZIN is 44 years old, indisputably pedigreed to the highest level of radio achievement in North America and a fellow of no small ambition. That's why recent ne...
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A productive summer for Naperville North's ManikondaSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - This summer it wasn't so much a vacation for Bhaavya Manikonda, in one sense. The Naperville North junior, defending state badminton champion and runner-up as a freshman...
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Villa lets his pride in West Chicago shine throughSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - Contrary to published reports, you can go home again. In fact, except for three years playing soccer at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Jose Villa never left ...
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Cary-Grove's Olson, WCC's Schlemmer earn impressive coaching honorsSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - When you coach a sport long enough, like Tammy Olson has at Cary-Grove, you realize the best things are not big wins or even championships. The best things are the relat...