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Constable: Deerfield's 'The Great Rabbino' promotes wresting and JudaismApr 07, 2022 1:00 am - As a high school senior in Deerfield, Jeremy Fine was an honorable mention all-state basketball player who averaged nearly 23 points a game. As the promoter behind 2econ...
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After more than 20 years, Wilmette native returns to star in Drury Lane's 'The King and I'Apr 06, 2022 11:00 pm - Entering Drury Lane Theatre's rehearsal room earlier this year to begin work on a revival of “The King and I,” Betsy Morgan flashed back to her professional debut at the...
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Get reacquainted with the worthy and worthwhile rutabagaApr 06, 2022 11:00 pm - It all started when a local farmer ran out of sweet potatoes. I was shopping for a class where we were making sweet potato planks topped with a spinach-feta mixture. “He...
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Feder: Striking workers reach tentative deal with WTTWApr 06, 2022 1:00 am - For the full report, click here. ...
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Strome's work without the puck boosts overall game.Apr 06, 2022 1:00 am - Dylan Strome is having a career season offensively. One more goal and the Blackhawks forward will set a career high with 21. But that's not what most impresses coach Der...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The new job numbers: A healthy economy?Apr 06, 2022 1:00 am - The United States added 431,000 new jobs last month, a sign, we are told, of how healthy the economy is. You could have fooled me. I'm not a numbers cruncher. I'm talkin...
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Jim O'Donnell: Betting The Masters? All Illini sentimentality says go with young 'Willie Z'Apr 06, 2022 1:00 am - GENERALLY, BETTING A PGA TOURNAMENT can be as excruciating as being forced to sit through a four-day Nicolas Cage film festival. And then there is the matter of young Wi...
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Violence on three levels: Hollywood, Washington, UkraineApr 06, 2022 1:00 am - Hollywood. Washington. Ukraine. Violence is breaking out all over, in places we thought we'd never see it: on the Academy Awards stage, in the Capitol and a war in Europ...
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'Lion King' returns to Chicago for the fifth timeApr 05, 2022 11:00 pm - Just in time for the holidays, Disney's "The Lion King" returns to Chicago this fall. The nine-week run, which begins Nov. 17, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, marks the...
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Constable: A star is born, as Wheaton native makes astrophysics historyApr 05, 2022 5:30 am - In his adolescent dreams as a student at Wheaton Warrenville South High School, Brian Welch fantasized about a pie-in-the-sky career as a star tight end with the Chicago...