Columns
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Transparency in lending practices protects small businessesMar 28, 2026 1:43 pm - Consumers are protected against predatory lending in Illinois. Small businesses are not.
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O’Donnell: Can’t Caleb Williams and advisers do better than old-mill ‘Iceman’?Mar 28, 2026 10:00 am - Columnist Jim O’Donnell writes about Bears quarterback Caleb Williams’ efforts to market himself.
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Lincicome: Opening Day lures the opening question out into the openMar 28, 2026 10:00 am - Columnist Bernie Lincicome writes about the start of the 2026 baseball season.
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Raw milk proponents push for fewer restrictions on Illinois sales despite state health warningsMar 28, 2026 9:50 am - With the ascension of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to U.S. Health and Human Services secretary and allies in the Make America Healthy Again movement, raw milk advocates have che...
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Trump needs a short warMar 27, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: How many times has President Trump said that the war in Iran, now entering its fourth week, will be brief? Many.
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The physical and emotional toll of warMar 27, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson: With the recent wars that we have had, which include conflicts with Afghanistan and Iraq, I have found myself thinking more about what military families are going through.
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Pandora, Chicken Little and messages for today’s worldMar 27, 2026 4:00 am - Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias conducted a press conference Wednesday that is frightening enough on its own. Its broader implications are an even greater c...
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Focus on the joy, not the nonsense, of football recruitingMar 26, 2026 6:40 pm - While dismissing the nonsense swirling around them, we should focus on the great local football recruiting stories of Hersey’s Jake Nawrot and others.
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Tips for filling out your FAFSA forms to avoid mistakesMar 26, 2026 2:09 pm - When you hear that the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2023 made it easier to apply for federal financial aid for college, you may think, “This will be easy!” True, the act reduced the number of questions, but people still find the form so complex and overwhelming that the process seems designed to confuse them.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools earns poor marks for NFL draft closureMar 26, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Salena Zito: