Columns
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Neighbors in the news: LCDOT promotes two employees to assistant engineersNov 22, 2022 5:00 am - • The Lake County Division of Transportation has promoted Kevin Carrier and Jon Nelson to serve as assistant county engineers. Together, Carrier and Nelson will help lea...
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'Devotion' a handsomely produced, anti-white savior dramaNov 22, 2022 5:00 am - “Devotion” - ★ ★ ★ Ever since I began writing about Hollywood's white savior syndrome in 1986, I have seen only one movie that rejected the genre's implicit white suprem...
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The Constitution Article I: Rules for the Legislative BranchNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - This is the fifth in a series of essays about the Constitution of the United States. After identifying the reasons for and powers of the Legislative Branch of our federa...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: A topic more important than the presidentNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - Out there in Nebraska, where the air is clean and pure, up there in Minnesota, where they have those gosh darn cute accents, federal investigators found 30 teenagers wor...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: The GOP's challenge now: Make America Good AgainNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - "I don't own this job. Anybody who wants to run for it can feel free to do so," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday. "I'm not in any way offended by ...
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Legislation seeks to ensure halal, kosher foods available in hospitals, schoolsNov 21, 2022 4:30 am - By Madhu Krishnamurthy As suburban families prepare to come together this week for Thanksgiving meals, among the meat options they might find at the grocer are halal and...
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Major fixes on the Kennedy, 'smart corridors' on routes 64 and 56 heading our wayNov 21, 2022 4:30 am - By Marni Pyke With the interminable Jane Byrne Interchange reconstruction terminating this year, the Illinois Department of Transportation is shifting gears to several p...
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It's (holiday) show time: Suburban, city theaters rebound from the pandemic with a plethora of seasonal offeringsNov 20, 2022 6:30 am - If Christmas 2021 saw Chicago-area theaters beginning to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, Christmas 2022 suggests it's about complete, with many companies producing a...
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Fireplace flaws should have been reportedNov 20, 2022 5:00 am - Q: We have an old deteriorated fireplace in a 1914 home. There are holes in the mortar, smoke stains on the mantle, numerous cracks in the exterior stucco, and the chimn...
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O'Donnell: Kmet heads the November “In” crowd but why don't Bears shut Fields down?Nov 20, 2022 4:00 am - CLOWNS TO THE LEFT, turkeys to the right, stuck in the middle of a frosty November weekend with the latest monthly installment of Ins and Outs: • In — Cole Kmet — Way in...