Columns
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Arkush: GM Ryan Poles puts Bears in fantastic position after Friday's blockbuster deal with PanthersMar 10, 2023 12:00 am - With Friday's trade, Bears general manager Ryan Poles elevated himself to a new league. He's now a serious player at the NFL's highest level, and anyone who believes the...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Anatomy of the Chicago mayor's electionMar 10, 2023 12:00 am - Big city elections provide clues about trends in national politics, the composition and attitudes of Democratic constituency groups, and voters' responses to emerging ma...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Welcome to the age of political capitalismMar 10, 2023 12:00 am - Welcome to our regime of political capitalism, where merit matters but political connections matter even more. In an unalloyed capitalist system, money flows to those wh...
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Widescreen: HBO's 'Last of Us' shunned actual gameplay to become the best video game adaptation everMar 09, 2023 5:00 am - Sunday's season finale of “The Last of Us,” at 8 p.m. on HBO, doesn't need to air for me to call the series the best dramatic adaptation of a video game ever. The shocki...
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Suburban theater artists discover joy of puppetry in Music Theater Works' revival of 'Avenue Q'Mar 09, 2023 5:00 am - Comedy is bread and butter to theater artist Melissa Crabtree, whose resume includes roles in such tuners as "A Christmas Story," "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to t...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Suffrage march tied to our timesMar 09, 2023 12:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm "Votes for Women!" was a showdown between Alice Paul, 28, versus Woodrow Wilson, 56, which opened with a colorful Washington parade on March 3, 1913, wi...
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Guest columnists Brian Urbaszewski and Susan Mudd: Electric school buses are healthiest choice for kids' lungs, our communities and the planetMar 09, 2023 12:00 am - In a Feb. 6 Daily Herald Letter to the Editor, Tucker Perkins, president of the industry lobby group Propane Education & Research Council, called for a planet-friendly a...
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Neighbors in the news: Highland Park foundation welcomes two new membersMar 08, 2023 10:00 pm - • The Highland Park Community Foundation (HPCF) has welcomed Caroline Mead as a new board member and Eric Zoberman as senior director. Mead was raised in the suburbs of...
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Who will win? Film critic Dann Gire makes his Oscars picks, from sure bets to up-for-grabsMar 08, 2023 2:00 pm - Predicting this year's Academy Awards winners might appear to be as easy as blasting womp rats on Tatooine with a T-16 Skyhopper. So who will win big on Sunday night? I ...
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An ingredient substitution shines in a great recipeMar 08, 2023 5:00 am - Milk Street magazine showcased a recipe for broccoli raab and Italian sausage in its March/April 2023 issue that looked enticing, and I decided to try it. I already had ...