Columns
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State wants to enlist truck drivers to fight human traffickingJul 28, 2017 5:30 am - The nation was horrified this week at the news that 10 people died and dozens more were injured in a sweltering truck trailer in San Antonio. The driver said he didn't k...
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North: Mayor was right to limit Cubs night gamesJul 28, 2017 5:19 am - I'm not a big fan of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and I do like Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Crane Kenney, but I'm with the mayor on his refusal to allow...
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Moment of reckoningJul 28, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump has reached a "moment of reckoning," says Sen. Lindsey Graham, the outspoken Republican from South Carolina. And he is correct. The issue is a program cr...
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Schaumburg's CellTrak gets $11M shot to boost home health care softwareJul 28, 2017 1:00 am - Schaumburg firm gets a cash boost for its home health care software
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Amita on target with $250 million in new projects through 2021Jul 28, 2017 1:00 am - Arlington Heights-based Amita Health's plan to expand three suburban hospitals and build four new medical facilities could cost up to $250 million and will be completed ...
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Venezuelan chaos has roots in CubaJul 28, 2017 1:00 am - Something is not quite right about this summer's stories from Venezuela, that immensely resource-rich but impoverished Latin American nation seemingly headed toward civi...
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Jackson: Here's how you can crack the fishing career codeJul 27, 2017 10:05 am - My decades of involvement within the outdoor industry has presented me with situations where I am often asked about how I got into this business. I also am asked about h...
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Aren't we done with slow motion visuals yet?Jul 27, 2017 6:00 am - Slow-mo action device a passing fad cliché? During the late 1960s and early '70s, almost every movie seemed to include the same transitional shot: a single flower, grass...
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Special session tab could have been higher without suburban lawmaker's billJul 27, 2017 5:30 am - An already expensive four-day legislative special session underway in Springfield could have cost taxpayers $56,740 more if it hadn't been for the efforts of a suburban ...
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Homage to a great editorJul 27, 2017 1:00 am - Behind every great column is a great editor - a truism never more so than when Alan Shearer puts highlighter (not red pen) to copy. Shearer, who has run The Washington P...