Columns
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Grammar Moses: An olio of staycation musingsJan 09, 2021 12:00 am - I didn't have time to write a column last week, but I did have plenty of time to think about it while vacationing in various parts of my house. And now that I'm back to ...
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Suburban religious leaders hosting interfaith prayer service SundayJan 09, 2021 12:00 am - Suburban faith leaders will come together to host a virtual interfaith prayer service for World Peace Day at 2 p.m. Sunday. Eboo Patel, founder and president of the nonp...
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A lost landmark: Riley Drugs in Geneva to close after 55 yearsJan 08, 2021 5:00 am - It's been a couple of decades since the Klick & Worthley drugstore on First Street in St. Charles closed after being in operation since the mid-1940s, and Burger Drugs a...
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Lake County Preservation Foundation president champions the cause of the forestsJan 08, 2021 5:00 am - Growing up on the west side of Lake Forest, Nels Leutwiler has vivid memories of frequent childhood visits to Captain Daniel Wright Woods Forest Preserve in Mettawa. Lat...
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'We know how bad it is out there': How Wheeling police are helping people in needJan 08, 2021 4:30 am - We could all use some good news right about now. Thankfully, Wheeling police were there Thursday to give us some. More than a dozen officers helped pack up and deliver h...
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Feder: MeTV rises and shines with 'Toon In With Me'Jan 08, 2021 12:00 am - History will note that Bill Leff took his first pie in the face on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Undoubtedly there are more to come, Robert Feder writes. "Toon In With Me...
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Trump cost his party the Senate and the country even moreJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - What do you say of a man who openly seeks to subvert the Constitution and incites his supporters to take over the Capitol of the United States? He's not a president. He ...
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The 'Soulcraft' we need from lawmakers in House, SenateJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - In 1983, the conservative writer George Will wrote a slim volume entitled "Statecraft as Soulcraft" in which he argued that he did not see a problem of "big" government ...
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Brilliant 'Herself' delicately balances optimism with brutal realities of domestic abuseJan 07, 2021 5:00 am - “Herself” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Phyllida Lloyd's domestic drama “Herself” believes in the essential goodness of the common person, and the inevitable triumph of honesty and generosi...
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Constable: Attack from our own evokes gut punch of Sept. 11Jan 07, 2021 4:30 am - “We are no longer the America we were,” began the column I wrote on Sept. 11, 2001. The legendary Studs Terkel concurred during a telephone interview that morning as we ...