Columns
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Schools reporting a seamless transition in lacrosse's first seasonMay 02, 2018 1:00 am - It appears lacrosse plays nicely with the other spring sports. The Illinois High School Association's sanctioning of the girls and boys lacrosse state series this spring...
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78-year-old has run 500 marathons - and countingMay 01, 2018 11:00 pm - For Bill Rex, it made all of the sense in the world. He simply felt better after running. So he kept doing it. Whether you would call him Geneva's version of Forrest Gum...
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Sound check: Jimmy Eat World makes a Chicago returnMay 01, 2018 6:00 am - Jimmy Eat Riv When Jimmy Eat World dropped 2001's best-selling album “Bleed American,” it was a breakthrough moment for the band. The singles it spawned (“Bleed American...
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Constable: Beloved trees branch into a collection of storiesMay 01, 2018 5:12 am - In 30 years of writing columns for this newspaper, I'm probably responsible for sending a small forest to the paper mill. The cruel irony is that I love trees. And I lov...
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Ziehm: Busy Billiter looks to defend IPGA Match Play title at Kemper LakesMay 01, 2018 1:01 am - Now things get serious. The 67th playing of the Illinois PGA Match Play Championship begins a busy five months of tournament play for the Chicago area's best golfers. Th...
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America needs a restoration of rhetoricMay 01, 2018 1:00 am - On a Saturday night in April, the rhetoric of our historical era reached a culminating, symbolic moment. In Washington, D.C. - at the White House Correspondents' Associ...
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If you preach about the poor, you don't have a prayer in WashingtonMay 01, 2018 1:00 am - Praying for the poor is now apparently a firing offense in the corridors of power. House Speaker Paul Ryan did not give a reason when his chief of staff this month told ...
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Feder: Fox 32's late news on a roll in the ratingsMay 01, 2018 1:00 am - WFLD-Channel 32 has begun the May sweep as close as ever to WGN-Channel 9 in key adult demographics at 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, Robert Feder writes. In April, the F...
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Springtime means its skunk season in the suburbsApr 30, 2018 11:00 pm - Skunks! No American mammal is better known and less popular than the striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis). That said, there are some folks that find skunks to be quite cute...
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Offer loving advice to son in crumbling marriageApr 30, 2018 11:00 pm - Q. I am very concerned about my adult son and his relationship with his second wife. Bear with me, I know he's an adult! But: His first marriage failed, more to do with ...