Columns
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Why peppers are so hot - and why we eat them anywayNov 06, 2018 5:00 am - "Why do peppers burn your mouth?" asked a young Arlington Heights Memorial Library patron. Chili peppers produce capsaicin. When eaten it blooms from bite into burn. Tho...
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Prospect's Marching Knights place fifth in regional competitionNov 06, 2018 5:00 am - The haunting melody of the French ballad “La Vie en Rose,” written in a cafe along the Champs-Elysées in Paris more than 70 years ago, hardly sounds like the stuff of a...
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Sound check: Michael Glabicki brings roots rock to Hey NonnyNov 06, 2018 5:00 am - Roots rock with Michael Glabicki Rusted Root (“Send Me On My Way”) may be on a hiatus, but the band's frontman Michael Glabicki and guitarist Dirk Miller are on tou...
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Pritzker, Rauner raised $255 million. Here's what they could have spent that money on.Nov 06, 2018 4:30 am - Election Day is finally here. That means no more vile and insulting television commercials, no more unrelenting political robocalls, and no more unsightly clutter of cam...
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Divorced friends don't want to hear complaints about her husbandNov 06, 2018 1:00 am - Q. I have a close, small group of friends whom I have known for decades, and two of them are divorced, both more than five years ago. We have always shared things that b...
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Defense getting the job done as Batavia readies for quarterfinalsNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - When your high school football team has won all 11 of its games this season - 16 consecutive wins dating back to October of 2017 - chances are good some big-time players...
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Cake walk: Nearly half of Illinois House candidates face no opponentNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - By Austin Berg Guest columnist There are 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives. But before a single vote is cast on Election Day, nearly half of those seats...
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Rozner: Quenneville's Blackhawks era shall not be forgottenNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - The Blackhawks are heartless, gutless and clueless. Those were among the words used to describe Hawks management 10 years and three weeks ago, when head coach Denis Sava...
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Deciphering playoff trendsNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - Make no mistake about it...DuPage County took a pretty good hit on Saturday. Of the 11 football teams that entered the second round, only five made it through to the qua...
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Feder: Sun-Times brings back TV listingsNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - Citing phone calls and emails from readers, the Sun-Times has restored the evening TV grid to its pages, effective today, Robert Feder writes. The move follows the retur...