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Get a feel for the Fox at Mid-American Canoe & Kayak RaceMay 09, 2017 11:00 pm - The Fox River is a lifetime friend. Similarly, I've enjoyed the same long-term relationship with the Mid-American Canoe & Kayak Race. We go way back … to boyhood days in...
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Music notes: Tour brings Bush, The Kickback to Chicago's RivieraMay 09, 2017 6:00 am - 'Everything Zen' One of the biggest bands of the mid-'90s, Bush had a tight hold on the airwaves (and MTV) from 1994 on. But all good things must come to an end, and aft...
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Constable: Still time to find talent, pleasure once pressure is goneMay 09, 2017 5:30 am - Running has never run in my family. Outside of a mandatory 1-mile run during annual tryouts for the high school football team, I've enjoyed a lifetime of confining my ru...
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Local qualifiers embark on the road to the U.S. Open and Erin HillsMay 09, 2017 1:01 am - The first tee shot of 117th U.S. Open at Wisconsin's Erin Hills course is five weeks away, but the battle to get there got into full swing this week with one notable sur...
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Loss of moral leadership is root of Venezuela's painMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - For those of us correspondents who covered it for many years, it's hard today to remember when Venezuela was the democratic hope of Latin America. From the time the grea...
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Rozner: Chicago Bears' QBs will find much in commonMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - Only the Chicago Bears would sign a free-agent quarterback and send him to their draft party to represent the team, and then take a quarterback high in the draft and han...
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Owner of Elgin, Aurora radio stations buying WCGO AM 1590 in EvanstonMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - Robservations on the media beat: The owner of radio stations in Elgin and Aurora has just made a deal to buy WCGO AM 1590 in Evanston. William Pollack's Memphis-based Po...
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'Fifth Element' back on the big screen for its 20th anniversaryMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - May 9, 1997: I was working for Suncoast Motion Picture Company at Mount Prospect's previous, dearly departed incarnation of Randhurst. Those were the days of the Picnic ...
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Why do we fear change?May 09, 2017 1:00 am - We live in a world that is constantly changing and it is our obligation to keep up with it. Change, unfortunately, is a phenomenon most of us are reluctant to embrace an...
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For Trump, it's all about winningMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - Actors Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump are like twins separated at birth. Both became rich and famous - by hook in one case and by whatever in the other - each to his own...