Columns
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Constable: In our red-and-blue state, identifying 'pod people' is trickyNov 15, 2016 4:00 am - "At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town," explains Dr. Miles J. Bennell, the chisel-jawed movie characte...
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New mom's fitness regimen is nobody's business but hersNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Q. Three months ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Exactly four days later, while I was still sitting on pillows, my husband's friend came to visit. After congra...
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Lessons from the pastNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Afterthoughts about our new president-elect - and ourselves: Election Day evening, as it slowly, state by state, became obvious that Donald J. Trump was being elected pr...
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Which suburbs' vehicle allowances count toward pensions?Nov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Does your town give its top administrator a vehicle allowance that raises his or her public pension? How much did a two-year Open Meetings Act fight between Grayslake El...
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A triumphant GOP, mired in crisisNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - The Republican Party is everywhere triumphant - House and Senate, executive and legislative, national and state - and yet faces a series of crises. There is a crisis of...
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Rozner: Play by Chicago Cubs' Bryant still top of mindNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Two weeks have now passed since the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Not sure which is more difficult to believe, that it's been a fortnight already or that the North ...
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Getting excited for Semifinal SaturdayNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - There's something special about the semifinals. Any playoff football win is big, but it's different at this point. Teams are so close, yet so far from the title game. Th...
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Scientists agree there's a fourth dimension of space-timeNov 14, 2016 10:00 pm - "What is the fourth dimension?" asked a camper who attended this summer's Wauconda Area Library STEM program. The fourth dimension is a concept that connects to astronom...
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Start small to figure why your life is unhappyNov 14, 2016 10:00 pm - Carolyn Hax is on leave. This column originally ran on June 17, 2012. Q. I have a bit of an open-ended question. When I'm unhappy, I tend to want to change everything - ...
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Twice the fun, and work, as a typical project carNov 14, 2016 5:00 am - With heart pumping, Gary Uhlman rang the doorbell again. He was just a block away from his parent's home and about to find out if he'd be leaving with a 1968 Chevrolet C...