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Chicago-area Muslim group launches anti-bullying initiativeNov 08, 2021 4:30 am - A recent surge in bullying targeting suburban Muslim students has prompted the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization to launch a major anti-bull...
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Policymakers should adopt an economic strategy focused on local businesses and communitiesNov 08, 2021 1:00 am - Politicians often focus on luring large companies into their communities by providing huge tax breaks and other incentives. Indeed, Illinois policymakers have spent imme...
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Arkush: Bears beat themselves with penalties vs. SteelersNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - There was so much wrong with the Chicago Bears in their 29-27 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers Monday night it was almost impossible to watch, until it wasn't. On the ope...
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Budget controls, consolidations can improve college affordabilityNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Many people believe America's higher education model is broken. They point, with justification, to the high cost of tuition, the resulting large loan balances students g...
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Feder: Jennifer Lyons to keynote Chicago JournalistsNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Jennifer Lyons, president and general manager of CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 and formerly one of Chicago's preeminent news executives, has been chosen as keynote speaker fo...
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Moser, Krutwig move on, but Loyola aims to show staying powerNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Porter Moser is the new head coach at Oklahoma. Cameron Krutwig is playing professional basketball in Belgium. Those are two major losses for Loyola, but the Ramblers ar...
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Protect yourself when buying a new homeNov 07, 2021 7:00 am - Q: The new home we're buying will be completed next month. We want a professional home inspector to do the final inspection before I move in, but the builder says, "No w...
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Good News Sunday: Majority-white Arlington Heights church welcomes first Black pastorNov 07, 2021 5:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: After 23 years of Lutheran ministry in p...
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Facts Matter: Images purporting to refute global warming don't hold waterNov 07, 2021 4:30 am - Side-by-side images of the Statue of Liberty are being shared on social media along with a claim the sea level hasn't risen in 100 years. "This is what catastrophic sea-...
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Grammar Moses: Red herrings, necessary verbs and treating people as fractionsNov 07, 2021 4:30 am - This is not a treatise on the horrible Three-fifths Compromise that determined during the Constitutional Convention that slaves should be counted as 60% of a person for ...