Columns
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Wheaton actor/director/educator returns to the stage in Copley Theatre's 'Fun Home'Aug 10, 2022 11:00 pm - Late last year, theater artist and former BoHo Theatre artistic director Stephen Schellhardt stepped away from the theater that had been his artistic home for six years....
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Loving super-nutritious broccoli is easy when it's dressed just rightAug 10, 2022 6:00 am - This is a best of Lean and lovin' it column, first published on June 19, 2018. Don Mauer is taking some time off. Who loves broccoli? Hmm, not that many hands went up. B...
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Sound check: Jason Aldean in Tinley Park; The Venue's Americana Music FestAug 10, 2022 6:00 am - Americana under the Aurora stars The Venue wraps up its summer music season with the three-day Americana Music Festival this weekend. Friday, Chicago Farmer & the Fieldn...
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Summer zucchini seems to be everywhere; here are tasty ways to use itAug 10, 2022 6:00 am - If you have friends, family or neighbors who garden, it's about this time of year that they are all trying to pawn off their harvest of zucchini for whoever will take it...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Finland and Sweden further strengthen NATOAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - On Aug. 3, the United States Senate overwhelmingly approved Finland and Sweden joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The vote was 95 to 1, far more than the tw...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Finland and Sweden further strengthen NATOAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - On Aug. 3, the United States Senate overwhelmingly approved Finland and Sweden joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The vote was 95 to 1, far more than the tw...
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Hub Arkush: The price of poker potentially just went way up for Roquan SmithAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - There are a number of good reasons that 98 to 99% of NFL players are represented by professional agents in negotiating their contracts. There's really only one good reas...
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Columnist Lee Hamilton: The Jan. 6 committee reminds us of what congress can doAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - Watching the hearings held by the Jan. 6 committee as it delves into the events at the Capitol last year and what lay behind them, I've been struck by what you might thi...
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Jim O'Donnell: Weak Cubs-Reds game could turn Fox/MLB cornfield dream into a nightmareAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT bad baseball is that it's easily recognizable as bad baseball. A Casey Stengel or a Bob Uecker might milk baselines of laughter out of it. Inst...
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Hub Arkush: Roquan Smith drops 'dirty bomb' on Bears' rookie GMAug 09, 2022 1:00 am - Roquan Smith is not one of the usual suspects when it comes to 25-year-old NFL superstars. He clearly qualifies for the superstar tag with two Second Team All-Pro nods a...