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Rolling Meadows barber launches scholarship for District 214 students entering tradesMay 04, 2021 6:00 am - A small awards ceremony took place last week in the auto shop at Rolling Meadows High School. There was little fanfare, but everyone involved hopes the scholarship may l...
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The growing popularity of e-bikes: What are they, who's riding them, and is it cheating?May 04, 2021 6:00 am - Call me old-fashioned, or a bike snob, but aren't e-bikes cheating? Electric assist bikes, aka e-bikes, surging in popularity, make me pedal harder to catch up, literall...
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Constable: Who is vaccinated? If only 'vaxdar' were realMay 04, 2021 5:30 am - Some people profess to possess gaydar, which gives them the power to tell if a person is gay. They say they can tell by the hair, clothes, watchband, shoes, and other th...
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Feder: John Kass walks back 'enemy of the people' blast at mediaMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - Rebuked by his colleagues for promoting a tweet that referred to the media as "the enemy of the people," Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass now says he shouldn't have d...
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The 2020 census: Small Republican gains in a nation hunkered downMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - The COVID-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia at nearly one-third of a billion - 331,449,281 - ...
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Illini win sixth-straight Big Ten golf championshipMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - Mike Small couldn't compete in last week's PGA Professionals Championship in Florida - which offers a spot in the field for the PGA Championship in two weeks at Kiawah i...
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Charles Leno may have deserved better but it was time to goMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - If the Bears were going to cut Kyle Fuller to begin the cleanup of their stifling salary cap issues — which they did to save approximately $11 million — then they had ab...
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FDA's anti-smoking proposals head toward slippery slope of regulationsMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - If it doesn't look like avocado toast, you can't have it. That's the message I get loud and clear from Uncle Sam when I read story after story about the Food and Drug Ad...
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Feder: Weigel expands memorable entertainment menu with 'MeTV Plus'May 03, 2021 1:00 am - Weigel Broadcasting is about to launch a new 24/7 digital network to extend the brand and expand the audience of MeTV, its "Memorable Entertainment Television" franchise...
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Rozner: Home run derby to decide a game? Baseball is becoming a three-ring circusMay 03, 2021 1:00 am - It doesn't seem like that long ago, maybe a few years, that I was joking about this very thing on the radio. It was that someday - if he had his way - baseball commissio...