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Did Cook County's failed soda tax cause sales taxes to fizzle, too?Jan 17, 2018 4:30 am - Cook County's short-lived penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages not only failed to bring in as much revenue as projected, but it might also have cost the county mil...
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This year's Naperville North Hall class? Petersen has seen them allJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - The latest class to be inducted into the Naperville North Athletic Hall of Fame includes a man who began his career before there was a Naperville North. Bill Petersen st...
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Feder: WTTW salutes retiring 'Chicago icon' Joel WeismanJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - An all-star lineup of Joel Weisman's A-list guests over the years will headline an hourlong special tribute to the retiring host of "Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review,...
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Paul Manafort has a point in his case against MuellerJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - It's not a popular thing to defend Paul Manafort, the international influence peddler who ran Donald Trump's presidential campaign for a short time in 2016. Just search ...
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Trump is at war with the central ideal of the RepublicJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - Sometimes it is necessary to begin with the obvious. The claim that America needs more Norwegian migrants and fewer Africans from "sh-thole countries" is racist. It is n...
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The Book Shop now open Saturdays in BataviaJan 16, 2018 10:00 pm - If the number of people going in and out of The Book Shop in Batavia on a recent Saturday is any indication, James Stickling and his wife Lizzy Evensen are onto somethin...
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Fremd teacher earns U of C Outstanding Educator AwardJan 16, 2018 10:00 pm - Martin Zacharia, an advance placement history teacher at William Fremd High School, received the University of Chicago's Outstanding Educator Award. The award recognizes...
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Why you should binge-watch all 331 episodes of 'ER' on HuluJan 16, 2018 3:00 pm - I woke up Sunday morning, fired up my PlayStation 4 and nearly hit the ceiling when I saw the homepage of the Hulu app. "ER" had, at last, come to a streaming platform. ...
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Sound check: Story of the Year, Davlin play Bottom LoungeJan 16, 2018 10:00 am - St. Louis' Story comes to Chicago St. Louis-based Story of the Year has written a long-awaited (Has it really been seven years?) new emo-peppered pop-punk chapter with D...
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Constable: Orbit roller-skaters chill inside while it's icy outsideJan 16, 2018 4:00 am - On a snowy Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, drivers behind the wheel are slipping, sliding and trying to avoid running into each other on the side streets. The ones who a...