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Holiday sports content you won’t find anywhere elseDec 24, 2023 6:00 am - Without apology to YouTube nor with any endorsement of other internet mind wasters, I searched various posts and uploads for seasonal sports content and found an impressi...
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Jim O'Donnell: Memories of a holiday salute from Bob Frisk still raise the spiritDec 24, 2023 6:00 am - IT'S FUNNY HOW THE CHRISTMAS CAROUSEL can come around again. Even in anniversaries that suggest “50” — especially when recalling a magical moment. Outside The Dunton ...
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Boy’s slaying, police dog killed, Juneteenth tragedy: The year in suburban crime newsDec 22, 2023 5:15 am - A little boy is killed just for being Palestinian. A man dies at a party celebrating freedom. And hundreds of people attend a funeral for a police dog fatally shot in a s...
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Silvy: Never let continuity get in the way of getting better. Eberflus has to goDec 21, 2023 9:00 am - So much for that playoff dream. For a week the optimism was flowing. For three quarters on Sunday, the Bears fueled the postseason fire like a burning yule log. We were t...
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How Christmas dinner traditions have evolvedDec 21, 2023 6:24 am - Turns out, a Dutch chemist named Johannes van Houten could very well be my all-time hero. Back in 1828, he invented a way to make chocolate into a solid bar, a form we’ve...
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Jim O'Donnell: The truth could set Justin Fields freeDec 21, 2023 6:00 am - IN A PERFECT SPORTS MEDIA WORLD, Justin Fields would shed his muzzle, step up to the microphones at Halas Hall and let loose an unabridged summary of his three season...
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At 40 years old, the Dundee-Crown Charger-Komaromy Classic is still his babyDec 21, 2023 6:00 am - Retired Chargers coach Joe Komaromy comes from Florida home to run holiday tournament
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The intellectual elite’s institutional rotDec 20, 2023 8:17 am - Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist a...
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Good News Sunday: Dentist volunteers offer free care to patientsDec 20, 2023 6:55 am - Barrington High student working to bring peer juries to suburban schools
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Immunity disorder: The man who would be king comes out and says soDec 20, 2023 2:00 am - BY JEFF ROBBINS Syndicated columnist "There's a recklessness in the air in America" was the elegant yet apt way ABC News journalist Terry Moran put it on Friday evening. ...