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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...
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What Evidence-Based Funding is teaching us about school performanceNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - For generations, Illinois had a school funding formula that was so flawed it created one of the most inequitable and inadequate education funding systems in America. It ...
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No doubt about it: Wisconsin-bound Njongmeta shows he's Big Ten materialNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - The kid told Maema Njongmeta he would never play football for the University of Michigan. He might have even sneered. The comment hurt Njongmeta, who, while athletic, wa...
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Prospect alum Pettenuzzo shines at Illinois WesleyanNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - Prospect graduate Rosie Pettenuzzo had quite an end to her final regular season on the soccer field for Illinois Wesleyan. The senior defender had her team's only goal t...
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Family disapproves of plan to adopt while singleNov 05, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. I'm a single, independent woman in my late 20s. For various reasons, I'm pretty sure marriage is not in my future, and I feel happy the way I am. Therein lies the rub...
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How to make '19 better than '18Nov 05, 2018 1:00 am - For retailers, the days between today and the start of the New Year typically are extremely important to the year's sales and profits. Others may look at the time as an ...