Columns
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What is the Counsell difference for the Cubs?Apr 13, 2024 11:48 am - I have a lot of questions. I don’t have many answers.
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How much nontax revenue is covering suburban park district costs?Apr 13, 2024 5:30 am - Because competition for property tax dollars in Illinois is stiff, local government agencies often have to look for other revenue to cover annual operational costs. For p...
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Slow start a concern, but Hendricks usually figures things outApr 12, 2024 7:53 pm - Should the Cubs be concerned about Kyle Hendricks’ rough start? Maybe, but he’s fought through tough stretches before.
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Aaron home run still brings back wonderful memoriesApr 12, 2024 6:00 am - Fifty years later, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run still brings back wonderful family memories.
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‘Nothing else like it in the area’: How local film buff got involved with, now leads AfterImage Film Festival in St. CharlesApr 12, 2024 4:30 am - Andrew Carlin of St. Charles shares how he got involved with – and now leads -- the AfterImage Film Festival in St. Charles, which opened Thursday and runs through Sunday, April 14.
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Trump's trial in New York could shatter his mirror politicsApr 12, 2024 4:00 am - Mirror politics is accusing your opponents of doing the very thing you yourself have done. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump insists President Joe Biden stole the 2020 ...
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America's fiscal ethos: From Alexander Hamilton's day to our ownApr 12, 2024 4:00 am - Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a la...
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What we celebrate when we celebrate K9 Dax’s police careerApr 11, 2024 4:00 pm - K9 Dax is getting quite the public send-off as he moves into retirement as the Lake County Sheriff’s Department’s crime fighting police dog. Dax was celebrated at a cerem...
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The craven sideshows that are taking over U.S. foreign policyApr 11, 2024 11:49 am - On Jan. 10, the Senate passed a bipartisan package of foreign assistance for Ukraine, for both Israel and for Palestinians, and for Taiwan. Since then, there has been a s...
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Vernon Hills hockey coach in the Female Coaches SpotlightApr 11, 2024 6:00 am - Lead supervisor and head coach of the Little Blackhawks program at Glacier and all introductory hockey initiatives there, Charice Paoli in March was included among 85 female hockey coaches worldwide in the NHLCA program’s Female Coaches Spotlight.