Columns
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A holiday ham turns into one sensational soupJan 11, 2023 5:00 am - We decided a ham would be perfect for our end-of-the-season holiday meal, so I headed out to a supermarket whose email ads claimed they had organic hams. When I showed u...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: New Year's light on lies clears the airJan 11, 2023 12:00 am - They thought they'd fool the grown-ups and get away with it all. George Santos and Sam Bankman-Fried are arrivistes in their 30s. A coincidence? I think not. Yet it's no...
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Jim O'Donnell: Amid the softballs, Ryan Poles faced nary a query about the lost impact of Roquan SmithJan 11, 2023 12:00 am - IF BEARS MANAGEMENT EVER HAS TO fill out a loan application to complete the purchase of the Arlington Park land, there's one asset that should be high up on any list. Th...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Trump's last days of PompeiiJan 11, 2023 12:00 am - The base believes President Donald Trump won in 2020 in part because the base thinks that Trump believes he won in 2020. The House Jan. 6 report, produced by an overwhel...
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Ziehm: Northbrook golfer Hardy signs deal as PGA Tour ambassador for Swag GolfJan 10, 2023 12:00 am - Northbrook's Nick Hardy will be a more colorful player when he begins the 2023 portion of his second season on the PGA Tour at this week's Sony Open in Hawaii. It's the ...
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Expressway shootings dropped by nearly 40% in 2022. Here's why and where they occurred.Jan 09, 2023 4:30 am - After an eruption of violence in 2021, expressway shootings dropped by nearly 40% in 2022, Illinois State Police data shows. Reports of highway gunplay, almost all in Ch...
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Naperville group commemorates U.S. quarter bearing likeness of first Chinese American movie starJan 09, 2023 4:30 am - A Naperville group will celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rabbit on Jan. 28 while also commemorating the release of a U.S. quarter bearing the likeness of the late Chine...
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'A testament to my parents': Murders created enduring bond between Brown's owners' daughtersJan 08, 2023 5:30 am - For the first time in 30 years, Lynn and Richard Ehlenfeldt's daughters will spend Jan. 8 together. Not since police discovered the bodies of their parents and five of ...
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Brown's Chicken murders 30 years later: Seven murders and finally justiceJan 08, 2023 5:30 am - On Friday, Jan. 8, 1993, two killers armed with a handgun, their pockets filled with bullets, walked into a Palatine Brown's Chicken & Pasta around closing time. They ha...
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Lincicome: Football is a violent sport. And that's the way we like itJan 08, 2023 5:30 am - There is no sport without pain, theirs not ours, though I have seen the parking lot at Lambeau Field turn unfriendly for visitors. And risk. Without risk, sports is danc...