Columns
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Baseball Way Back: Part 2 of our chat with Roe Skidmore, the player who might have suceeded Ernie BanksJun 17, 2023 1:00 am - Part 2 of 2 Roe Skidmore didn't need 3,000 hits to grab a share of baseball immortality. All he needed was one. Skidmore belongs to a rare group of players who own a per...
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Which suburbs have more people collecting police pensions than officers on the job?Jun 17, 2023 1:00 am - If all 353 suburban and downstate police departments were combined into one unit, there now would be more people collecting police pensions than sworn officers actually ...
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Facts matter: Trump indictment was real, not part of a conspiracyJun 17, 2023 1:00 am - A recent Facebook post claimed the indictment of former President Donald Trump, in the case of keeping and hiding top-secret documents, was all just a show. The post sho...
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Money from clubhouse rentals should lower assessmentsJun 16, 2023 6:00 am - Q: Our common interest community association includes a large clubhouse. The declaration permits the association to lease the clubhouse to third parties for events. Woul...
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Spotlight: Steppenwolf co-founder directs world premiere of relationship drama 'Another Marriage'Jun 16, 2023 6:00 am - Steppenwolf premiere Steppenwolf Theatre co-founder Terry Kinney returns to Chicago to helm the premiere of “Another Marriage” by fellow ensemble member and first-time p...
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Did misogyny, inept police work and more let a suburban killer evade justice?Jun 16, 2023 5:30 am - When Chris Loudon became a Lisle police detective, the job came with an assignment: Try to solve three cold cases. One was the rape of an elderly woman in the early 1990...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Trump's top-secret trophiesJun 16, 2023 1:00 am - Like most Republicans I know, I just want former President Donald Trump to go away. Maybe get off social media and stick to golf and dinners at his upscale properties. B...
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Guest columnist Roy Eappen: America should follow other countries on trans treatments for childrenJun 16, 2023 1:00 am - What do other countries know that America doesn't? This question needs to be asked - and answered - in Chicago this week, specifically in regards to transgender treatmen...
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Widescreen: Vivien Leigh, Pete Davidson and the weirdest double feature everJun 15, 2023 6:00 am - As someone who professes to be a film lover, I am embarrassed to admit I had never seen the 1951 Tennessee Williams classic “A Streetcar Named Desire” until this past Tu...
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Western Springs home cook brings local flavor to PBS' 'The Great American Recipe' challengeJun 15, 2023 6:00 am - Season two of “The Great American Recipe” premieres Monday, June 19, on PBS, and Ted Pappas, a semiretired architect from Western Springs, is one of the cooks chosen to ...