Columns
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Suburban case helps end state's gun ban near parksFeb 09, 2018 4:30 am - A suburban case involving a man who threw a gun onto a recreational trail while evading police is at the center of an Illinois Supreme Court decision declaring a key sta...
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South Korea - the world's most successful countryFeb 09, 2018 12:00 am - As the world's attention turns briefly away from Donald Trump and toward the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, it's worth focusing not just on the sports but on this year'...
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Rozner: Northwestern's Phillips leaves room in heart for NIU shooting victimsFeb 09, 2018 12:00 am - No one ever anticipates the worst day of their life. The shock is staggering, in an instant the evolution surreal. Jim Phillips remembers that moment 10 years later as i...
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A difficult year for romanceFeb 09, 2018 12:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer We have to face it, bravely and forthrightly, like serious men and women who recognize a sobering sexual crisis when they see it. There is no use f...
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Feder: Chicago Reader editor forced out (after returning from honeymoon)Feb 09, 2018 12:00 am - Jake Malooley has been forced out as editor of the Chicago Reader as new executive editor Mark Konkol moves to put his imprint on the alternative weekly. Malooley learne...
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Feder: Sun-Times cuts columnist Bill ZweckerFeb 09, 2018 12:00 am - Bill Zwecker, one of Chicago's premier celebrity columnists and entertainment reporters for decades, is the latest marquee personality to be forced out at the Sun-Times,...
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Wife feels pressure to repair husband's relationship with sistersFeb 08, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. My husband is not close with his sisters, who do not live locally. They text sometimes, but don't see one another more than once a year, and almost always when we tra...
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For Grant's tough cookie Harrity, this career choice was easyFeb 08, 2018 12:00 am - The dream wasn't to be a ballerina. Or a lawyer. Or a teacher. Or a singer. Or a nurse. Or a hair stylist. Or an actress. Or any of the other types of grown-ups that he...
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Republicans and those 'attacks' on the FBIFeb 08, 2018 12:00 am - The news is filled with reports that Republicans in Washington are "attacking" the FBI over the Trump-Russia investigation. The Washington Post recently compiled a colle...
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Slusher: Remember this about the news: It changesFeb 08, 2018 12:00 am - Some random thoughts on timely news-related topics: It is surely of questionable value to assign much credit or blame to a political figure based on ephemeral economic c...