Columns
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Tweets, reality TV and confused excitementOct 23, 2025 3:02 pm - Columnist Jim Slusher: I wonder if you can guess which part of this phrase, which I noticed while reviewing X one day, got me to click on the link that followed: “that is not how you use an exclamation mark, kim kardashian.” That’s right. It was “exclamation mark.”
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D.C. attackers go free, showing limits of Trump crime crackdownOct 23, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: A prominent Washington, D.C., juvenile case shows that it is a good thing that Trump decided to highlight the issue of crime. It eats away at quality of life in cities around the country.
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Bag man: Meet tough-talking Tom Homan, crime fighterOct 23, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins:
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A favorite son of Aurora has a dayOct 22, 2025 7:24 pm - Kenny Battle -- former NBA player, member of the “Flyin’ Illini” and West Aurora’s third-place team in 1984 -- was honored by an Aurora proclamation.
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Opening a restaurant is a scary business: real-life horror storiesOct 22, 2025 10:12 am - If you want some real Halloween thrills and chills, try opening a new restaurant. Here are some real-life horror stories from Izzy Kharasch’s life as a restaurant whisperer.
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Sarley: Why goose hunting is fairly easy to do around hereOct 22, 2025 10:00 am - Goose hunting is relatively easy, and you don’t have to go far to do it, writes Outdoors columnist Steve Sarley.
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Impress your guests this fall with caramel-glazed ginger applesauce cakeOct 22, 2025 5:42 am - Spoiler alert: This recipe for Don Mauer’s version of Ruth Reichl’s Gingered Applesauce Cake with Caramel Glaze is not low-calorie, low-fat, or low-carb. It is just ... well ... sensational.
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Trump’s political enemies list and vindictive prosecutionsOct 22, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Vindictive prosecutions aimed at settling political scores violate due process and equal protection clauses of the Constitution, and Trump's public statements about wanting "justice" against those who investigated him could create a presumption of vindictiveness.
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Trump Justice Department files charges against Antifa. What took so long?Oct 22, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: The left and big media have been on a crusade to convince the voting public that Antifa, a band of sometimes violent anarchists, is not really a thing. Last Thursday, Trump's Department of Justice unsealed indictments that charged two alleged Antifa members with providing material support to terrorists, attempted murder of an officer and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime.
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O’Donnell: Michael Jordan on NBC will be mild ado about image maintenanceOct 21, 2025 6:00 pm - THE NBA IS TIPPING OFF ITS 2025-26 SEASON this week. On a Chicago watch list, that clocks in somewhere between chasing unique leaf symmetry and monitoring snowblower pric...