Columns
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Uncle Andy: Old Hickory and me in historyOct 27, 2022 1:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm So I gave a talk on President Andrew Jackson, counting the ways he harshly steered the country wrong, wrong and wrong again. The Trail of Tears. Closing...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Leaders, lettuce and crisis in BritainOct 27, 2022 1:00 am - Rishi Sunak has been elected leader of the Conservative Party and become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom comprising England, Scotland, Wales and Northern I...
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Elk Grove driver charged with reckless homicide in death of Septemberfest workerOct 27, 2022 1:00 am - The driver who authorities say was behind the wheel of the car that struck a 58-year-old security worker at Schaumburg's Septemberfest last month, causing fatal injuries...
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Spotlight: TimeLine Theatre revives Alice Childress' landmark 1955 drama 'Trouble in Mind'Oct 26, 2022 11:00 pm - Jeeves returns First Folio Theatre commences its final season with a remount of "Jeeves Intervenes," which in 2008 was its first production of a Margaret Raether comedy ...
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Fright nights: Where to find haunted houses in the suburbsOct 26, 2022 11:00 pm - With Halloween only a few days away, the scare season is in full swing. That's especially true at the area's haunted houses. Here's a list of some places dialing up the ...
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Wicked concert weekend: There's plenty of music going around for HalloweenOct 26, 2022 2:00 pm - The spookiest of holidays looms, but with the tricks and treats falling on a Monday, many venues in the suburbs and Chicago are opting for a weekend of wacky tributes an...
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Try pumpkin raisin cookies for a Halloween treatOct 26, 2022 6:00 am - Editor's note: This column was first published on Oct. 25, 2011. Halloween's zipping down fall's highway and will be here before we know it. I'm a lousy pumpkin car...
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Sound check: Mike Doughty plays Evanston's SPACE, 'Troubadours' at Des Plaines TheatreOct 26, 2022 6:00 am - Mike Doughty solo Mike Doughty, founder of '90s alternative rock band Soul Coughing and more recently Ghost of Vroom, has also been making the rounds as a solo ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Are the Bears and Arlington Heights on a road to nowhere?Oct 26, 2022 1:00 am - AS WORLD WAR I wound down, the former German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg was asked how such a catastrophic event could have happened. His reply: “Ah, if onl...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: 7 Years in prison for a crime she did not commitOct 26, 2022 1:00 am - The year was 1995. Kristine Bunch was a 22-year-old single mother, wrongly arrested and charged and ultimately sentenced to 60 years in prison. For an accident. The smok...