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O'Donnell: Please hold all tickets on a Churchill Downs racino in WaukeganAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - WHEN “BUNKER BILL” CARSTANJEN dropped a bomb on Arlington Park last week, the assumption in many state and national horse racing circles was automatic: Carstanjen's Chur...
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The crucial call to 'walk with the wind'Aug 05, 2020 1:00 am - What a moment in America. On Thursday, three former U.S. presidents - George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - walked into Atlanta's storied Ebenezer Baptist Chur...
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In strange NFL preseason, nothing is normal, Nagy saysAug 05, 2020 12:00 am - In a normal NFL season, the Bears would be two weeks into training camp and preparing for their first exhibition game. Of course almost nothing is normal anywhere these ...
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It's not the summer they expected, but the Wheaton Municipal Band plays on virtuallyAug 04, 2020 6:00 am - Like all performing arts groups, the Wheaton Municipal Band has struggled this summer with the restrictions imposed by the pandemic - and keeping its audience engaged. W...
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Illinois Open kicks off tight schedule with string of championshipsAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - The 71st Illinois Open - the state's biggest tournament - concludes Wednesday at White Eagle in Naperville. A day later the PGA Championship tees off at Harding Park in ...
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Honoring the fallenAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - Capping a week of deserved tributes, the funeral for Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church brought me back a quarter-century to another funeral f...
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Rozner: Finding PGA pick not easy this time aroundAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - Some major championship weeks are as clear as can be. Among those that felt relatively easy to forecast in recent years were Jason Day at Whistling Straits, Dustin Johns...
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Feder: Layoffs hit NBC stations to meet 'changing economic environment'Aug 04, 2020 1:00 am - On a day that Comcast-owned NBCUniversal reportedly cut up to 10 percent of its workforce nationwide, layoffs hit all three NBC broadcast properties in Chicago, reports ...
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Feder: WGN Radio boss bans CNN, Fox News and SvengoolieAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - With Nexstar Media Group's “News Nation” prime-time newscast set to debut September 1 on WGN America, anchors and correspondents from competing networks may no longer be...
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Intensifying into violenceAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - "Protestors in California," tweeted ABC News, about an incident in Oakland, "set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful d...