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Sound check: Spend two nights with Smoking PopesMay 08, 2018 6:00 am - YouTube The Northwest suburban-born band The Smoking Popes makes two appearances at the Bottom Lounge for the Live From the Rock Room Fest, celebrating the past. Friday ...
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Why Highwood's Flavin wants to delay his pro golf dreamMay 08, 2018 1:01 am - The best golfer in Illinois last season has made his decision. Patrick Flavin won't turn pro - at least for a while. Last year Flavin became the first player in 37 years...
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Feder: Chicago Jewish Star closesMay 08, 2018 1:00 am - It's over and out for the Chicago Jewish Star after 27 years of publication, Robert Feder writes. Billed as Chicago's oldest independent Jewish newspaper, the Skokie-bas...
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Rozner: Chicago Cubs won't go anywhere if they don't improve pitching, defenseMay 08, 2018 1:00 am - At least for a day, the hysteria over the Cubs' offense dissipated. That's what happens when a team produces 14 runs on 15 hits and 5 walks against the Marlins' Jarlin G...
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Paul Ryan's failed exorcismMay 08, 2018 1:00 am - Given the cornucopia of issues Americans have to select from each day, the recent firing and rehiring of the House of Representatives' chaplain may not have bestirred ma...
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A look at our changing bird populationMay 07, 2018 11:00 pm - The basement archive of a military museum seems an odd place to find a 41-year-old bird checklist. Then again, this is Cantigny. We like history. We save stuff. Thanks...
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Dump boyfriend who doesn't believe mom was abusiveMay 07, 2018 11:00 pm - Q. I was raised in a single-parent, unhappy home, and my mother was abusive. I grew up hearing I was stupid, worthless, and it sticks with me. As an adult, I tried to ma...
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Automakers go the extra mile (or fathom)May 07, 2018 6:00 am - Classic Recreations, an Oklahoma-based coachbuilder, just got the green light and is now officially licensed by Ford to build three modern, turnkey, classic Mustangs: th...
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What to do about Millennial workersMay 07, 2018 5:00 am - The first of the Millennials, that generation so many of us bristle about when the subject arises, celebrate birthday number 37 this year. That's clearly adulthood. Thou...
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The three real steps Illinois should take on workers' compMay 07, 2018 1:00 am - Now that Illinois' contentious primaries are over, state lawmakers have an opportunity to get back to business and tackle the litany of financial woes affecting the stat...