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Lester: Potential coup unfolding at Arlington ParkApr 14, 2016 5:10 am - A controversy is brewing between Arlington Park officials and the association that's long represented horse owners and trainers who race at the track. Despite months of...
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Constable: 'Goat be with you' designer hoping this is year for salesApr 14, 2016 5:00 am - Limping along since 1908 without a World Series championship, Chicago Cubs players never have been that marketable. I remember balding third-baseman Steve Ontiveros, who...
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Reel life: Why don't black heroes matter in movies?Apr 14, 2016 5:00 am - Did you know that if writer/actor/director Don Cheadle hadn't fabricated a white colead for his new Miles Davis biopic "Miles Ahead" no movie studio would back it? "Unti...
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Baseball: Grayslake Central's Nozicka gets noticed, for the right reasonsApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - "A good catcher goes unnoticed." For Sam Nozicka, those are words to live by. "I think you hear that a lot in baseball," said Nozicka, Grayslake Central's four-year vars...
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Shoes start to fall in Panama Papers scandalApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - It's too wonderful. It's too delicious. It's too Graham Greene! It's Edward Snowden without Uncle Sam, it's the Pentagon Papers without a war in Asia, and it's every con...
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The questions I never askedApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - I am reading a book about death. It is Katie Roiphe's "The Violet Hour" and it is about how some people, all of them famous, faced death or thought about it. I turned to...
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Facing the daunting task of dealing with changeApr 13, 2016 11:00 pm - I love change. I hate changing Change can be exciting, stimulating, satisfying, joyful; it adds spice to my life. Changing can be tedious, unnerving, overwhelming, pa...
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Hanover Park man honored for tutoring programApr 13, 2016 11:00 pm - Israel Vargas, director of Community Outreach at Roosevelt University, was honored as Education Leader of the Year by Minds Matter Chicago, a nonprofit that runs a tutor...
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Imrem: NHL's most exciting time of yearApr 13, 2016 7:01 pm - As the NHL playoffs commence, it's easy to take for granted that you'll always be able to take for granted that the Blackhawks will be contending for Stanley Cup champio...
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Jackson: Sorting through the challenge of casting reelsApr 13, 2016 10:05 am - I spent two full days last week going through my reel drawers. I found spinning and casting reels I haven't used in more than 20 years. Some are still in good shape with...