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Sound check: Lisle '90s-Palooza takes you back in timeAug 15, 2017 6:00 am - Back to the '90s Dig out your flannel and head down to BaseCamp Pub for its inaugural '90s-Palooza, a daylong festival celebrating the music, dance and fashion we grew u...
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Some extraordinary white wines to see off summerAug 15, 2017 6:00 am - If you're anything like me, you've chilled, iced, slushied and spritzed plenty of white wines this summer. But with several weeks (we hope) of hot weather left, the pala...
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Constable: Is this the last pay phone in suburbs?Aug 15, 2017 5:00 am - A generation ago, you could spot these things all across the suburbs. In the 1970s, it seemed as if their population was growing. Then everything changed. I couldn't rem...
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Rozner: NFL, Goodell take shocking stand against ElliottAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - Every nine seconds in the United States, a woman is assaulted or beaten in a case of domestic violence. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on...
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Trump's worst economic ideaAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts President Trump has made countless ignorant and inaccurate statements during his first six months in office. No, his inaugural cro...
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Feel-good ideas that need a hardheaded examinationAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though, it's largely ignoring othe...
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Feder: Kathy Hart missing from WTMX radiothon, changes agents againAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - "Eric & Kathy's Kids," the 18th annual radiothon to benefit Lurie Children's Hospital, has started without Kathy Hart, who's been MIA since April from the WTMX FM 101.9....
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Go ahead, express concern for newly bald neighborAug 14, 2017 11:00 pm - Q. The other day I noticed my neighbor, who previously had long hair, is now bald. My assumption is she is dealing with some sort of health issue, likely cancer (why els...
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How Highland Park native went from 'movie-crazy kid' to 'Menashe' producerAug 14, 2017 5:38 am - While studying movies at Highland Park High School, Alex Lipschultz realized his taste in cinema already veered more toward the eccentric and less toward the mainstream....
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Though culture has changed, higher education still the same process of discoveryAug 14, 2017 1:00 am - It's that time again. All over the United States, a fresh crop of high school seniors are heading off to some college campus to pursue a "higher" education. Here on our...