Columns
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The Donald Trump ‘Revenge Tour’ is underwayMay 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Donald Trump's post-election revenge tour: starving enemies of security, ransacking the free press, and weaponizing lawsuits to "make their lives miserable.
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Cubs vs. White Sox: More evenly matched than the records show?May 15, 2025 5:51 pm - The first city series game of 2025 will feature an interesting pitching matchup: the Cubs’ Cade Horton making his Wrigley Field debut against White Sox rookie sensation Shane Smith.
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What’s in a nickname? Not much, apparentlyMay 15, 2025 5:40 pm - You’d think with 84 high schools in the Daily Herald coverage area, there’d be more interesting mascots.
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Silvy: If the Bears have four left tackles, does that mean they don’t have any?May 15, 2025 6:00 am - The Bears’ plan this year is to find a left tackle from four players, with none being ideal.
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Keeping the degrees of separation close to the new popeMay 15, 2025 4:00 am - Some statisticians claim that each of us is no more than six degrees of separation from any other person on the planet. With that as a rough measure, Chicagoans were che...
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‘JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028. Mark my words'May 15, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: Indiana Republican Senator Jim Banks predicts Vice President JD Vance will be the 2028 GOP presidential nominee and win the general election by diminishing China's influence, becoming a pro-worker party and replacing wokeism with patriotism.
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Counterweight: A new pope heralds a blessed contrastMay 15, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: New American Pope signals hope and change after era of presidential "depravity." Can humble faith defeat greed and lies?
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Sarley: How to master setting the hook while topwater fishingMay 14, 2025 7:01 pm - Let me start my follow-up story on topwater fishing with an apology. Eagle-eyed reader Craig Chisholm caught my error in recommending a lure called the Pop-R manufacture...
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‘That piece of paper opened up a door to the future’: Suburban students win Evans ScholarshipsMay 14, 2025 4:58 pm - Lake Zurich High School’s Allan Lavrov and Dundee-Crown’s Sophie Morawski were two of the 130 Illinois high school seniors selected to receive 2025 Evans Scholarships from the Western Golf Association.
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Leveraging local: How to build a brand that belongsMay 14, 2025 10:04 am - In a retail and service world filled with Amazon, Costco, Target, Walmart and other massive, multinational companies, there still remains a surprising amount of space for local business.