Columns
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Focus on premiums all that's needed to fix workers compensationJun 01, 2018 1:00 am - Guest columnist Steve Schneider of the American Insurance Association recently suggested "three real" steps that Illinois should take on workers' compensation. It might ...
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Husband tells white lie to avoid mom on Mother's DayMay 31, 2018 11:00 pm - Q. My husband asked me how I want to celebrate Mother's Day with our baby, and I suggested the three of us go to brunch Saturday so we could leave Sunday open to celebra...
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Constable: Can Cubs get back in first in June? Maybe it doesn't matterMay 31, 2018 5:35 am - Winning the past two series against the San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates, the Chicago Cubs are ending May on a nice run. But they still sit in second place on...
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Feder: Anchor David Roe leaving WBBM NewsradioMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - David Roe, the warm and authoritative voice in the night at Entercom all-news WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM, is calling it a day, Robert Feder writes. Roe, 66, is retiring F...
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Trump-Russia: The bank-shot investigationMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - On May 22, a man named Evgeny Freidman, the owner of more than 800 taxi licenses in New York City, pleaded guilty to "failure to remit to the New York State Department o...
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Slusher: Another lesson of Barr scandal - written word needs extra careMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - By Jim Slusher I have spent my career devoted to the written word, so far be it from me to disparage it. But as Roseanne Barr found this week - and as sites like Twitter...
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Retiring parks directors leave behind a legacyMay 30, 2018 11:00 pm - Retiring parks directors leave their marks for the public to enjoy
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Frenetic revenge thriller 'Upgrade' takes STEM to a whole new levelMay 30, 2018 12:00 pm - “Upgrade” - ★ ★ ★ The most disturbing take-away from Leigh Whannell's cyberpunked exploitation action thriller “Upgrade” might be that technology won't have to wage war ...
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Jackson: Top-water fishing lures rate a closer lookMay 30, 2018 10:05 am - Say what you will, but it's my firm belief that teasing a fish to strike a top-water lure is worth the price of admission - if there is an admission cost. I've been usin...
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Sound check: Depeche Mode brings dark dance rock to ChicagoMay 30, 2018 6:00 am - Words like violence ... The English rockers of Depeche Mode brought their new-wave dance rock to the States in the mid-'80s, giving American teens a new way to chan...