Columns
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Feder: Marissa Bailey joins Erin Kennedy as Channel 2 morning news anchorJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - Marissa Bailey, weekend morning news anchor at WBBM - Channel 2 since 2012, has been promoted to Monday-through-Friday morning co-anchor alongside Erin Kennedy. Bailey r...
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The OS in the Dell: Volo's AtomAMPD strikes key partnershipJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - As Rick Blaine once noted to Capt. Louis Renault, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. AtomAMPD, the Volo-based software company that developed the...
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Waiting for married man to get divorcedJun 08, 2017 11:00 pm - Q. While separated from our spouses, a very good friend supported me and I supported him. We fell in love. Four years later, I'm mostly content and divorced and he's sti...
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'It Comes at Night' filmmaker on how he tapped into 2017's political zeitgeistJun 08, 2017 6:00 am - How filmmaker created political zeitgeist Native Texas filmmaker Trey Edward Schults scored a critical hit with his dark 2016 indie family drama “Krisha.” His seco...
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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