Columns
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Lester: Wheaton Cold War bunker to be razed this monthJun 08, 2017 5:12 am - As U.S. relations with Russia are once again front-page news, DuPage County officials tell me they're preparing to demolish a Wheaton Cold War bunker in the coming days....
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How Thom McNamee celebrated twin Tim - after his 1987 death - in the fast laneJun 08, 2017 5:00 am - First of two parts Nobody was living larger than identical twins Tim and Thom McNamee of Carpentersville in the 1980s. Tim was a top attorney. Thom was an internati...
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Wishing for a Trump TwitterectomyJun 08, 2017 1:00 am - "If only he would stop tweeting." Those words came from a friend of mine named "Jack," quite possibly President Trump's biggest fan. A former secret service agent, Jack ...
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Feder: TV news vet Wall may be headed to ABC 7 as chief political reporterJun 08, 2017 1:00 am - Veteran Chicago newsman Craig Wall, who signed off in April after 19 years as a general assignment reporter at WFLD Channel 32, soon will be joining ABC Channel 7 as chi...
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Time to govern, RepublicansJun 08, 2017 1:00 am - On Nov. 9, 2016, in the stunned afterglow of Republicans taking the White House and holding both chambers of Congress, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor put it pl...
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What's so great about fishing? Readers respondJun 07, 2017 11:00 pm - Readers respond to Dave's question about the joys of casting a line
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Imrem: Warriors beat Da Bulls? No wayJun 07, 2017 5:01 pm - So, an ESPN sampling of Las Vegas bookmakers predicted that the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors would beat the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls in a fantasy basketball game. An epide...
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Jackson: Why it's so difficult to crack down on poachersJun 07, 2017 10:05 am - The reluctance in our society that allows poachers to thrive and stops people from calling the conservation officers or state police is difficult to accept and comprehen...
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After years of poor beefsteak yield, cherry tomato crop overflowsJun 07, 2017 6:00 am - Plump, sun-warmed, bright red or golden, sweet and delicious, right-from-the-garden tomatoes scream s-u-m-m-e-r. There's no way that out-of-season, greenhouse-grown toma...
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Illinois owes billions to suburban non-profits, companies, government agenciesJun 07, 2017 5:00 am - One result of the Illinois legislature's repeated failure to pass a budget is a big backlog of unpaid bills to companies and nonprofits that do business with the state o...