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Anxiety over mortality can cloud health-care decisionsSep 06, 2017 11:00 pm - We all like having options. We want to make our own decisions. We appreciate the idea of choosing from among a number of well-defined alternatives. Most of the time. W...
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Imrem: Trubisky will be Bears starter before too longSep 06, 2017 5:00 pm - The chants already are ringing in ears in and around Chicago. They'll resound through Soldier Field on Sunday. They'll fill family rooms and sports bars. They'll echo in...
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Vulnerability colors Fletcher Rockwell's newest album, FitzGerald's showSep 06, 2017 11:30 am - After nearly a decade kicking around Chicago and the suburbs, Midwestern-flavored Fletcher Rockwell has earned a reputation for punchy, Americana music and fun, lively s...
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Put surplus green beans to work in this simple, yet tasty, saladSep 06, 2017 6:00 am - And then that moment arrives when the green beans are piled so high at the markets, and being sold at such a low price, that you feel like you'd be a fool not to pick up...
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Homemade's the way to go if playing with your food appealsSep 06, 2017 6:00 am - My mother always told me not to play with my food. Of course, that doesn't mean I listened - or still do, even now. I am old enough to know better, but I can't eat an Or...
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How the state is taking local sales tax moneySep 06, 2017 5:30 am - Many suburbs will find their coffers a little light this month. That's because towns with local sales taxes are getting 2 percent less from the state than they're used t...
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The worst is yet to comeSep 06, 2017 1:00 am - It has become axiomatic that when Donald Trump says or does something over the top or below the belt, beware the unseen. His cunning use of distraction turns red herring...
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Feder: 'Saturday Night Live: The Experience' coming to ChicagoSep 06, 2017 1:00 am - An immersive multimedia exhibition taking visitors behind the scenes of "Saturday Night Live" is coming to Chicago. It will include Steve Martin's King Tut headdress, Ed...
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Furniture dealership finds a fit with ergonomicsSep 06, 2017 1:00 am - Jeff Meltzer matches bodies with furniture. The Skokie business owner started doing this more than 25 years ago, before ergonomics was really talked about. Meltzer is t...
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The golfer in the familySep 06, 2017 1:00 am - The latest athletic achievement in the Bukovsky family has nothing to do with football, softball or wrestling. Katie Bukovsky, a Montini sophomore golfer, notched the fa...