Columns
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Bears linebacker corps one of the best in the NFL again in 2020Jan 30, 2021 12:00 am - 9th in a series The linebacker position took the Bears to some of the highest and lowest points of the 2020 season, but overall there is no arguing the Bears linebackers...
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Constable: Firefighters don't have to carry emotional burden aloneJan 30, 2021 12:00 am - A solitary firefighter might have the grim task of carrying a dead child down a smoke-filled stairwell. But that firefighter doesn't have to carry the resulting emotiona...
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Baseball Way Back: Caray's arrival at Comiskey made wavesJan 30, 2021 12:00 am - When the White Sox unveiled former Cubs TV voice Len Kasper as the team's new radio play-by-play guy, comparisons were immediately made to Harry Caray's move from the So...
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Facts Matter: Military band didn't play 'Hit the Road Jack' as Trump left officeJan 30, 2021 12:00 am - A military band played "Hail to the Chief" on Jan. 20 at Joint Base Andrews as President Donald Trump departed Washington, D.C., ahead of President Joe Biden's inaugurat...
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How many fewer criminal charges were filed last year due to pandemicJan 29, 2021 4:22 am - You can count suburban criminal court filings among the many items the COVID-19 pandemic put a damper on in 2020. Whether it was a lack of opportunity when stores, resta...
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Will Pederson's bat provide big boost for Cubs lineup?Jan 29, 2021 12:00 am - In need of a left fielder after Kyle Schwarber was non-tendered in early December, the Cubs reportedly signed Joc Pederson to a one-year, $7 million contract on Friday. ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Frisk, Whisler helped Travelers blaze lost local CBA trailJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - IN HIS 50 YEARS SHEPHERDING the sports department of The Daily Herald, Bob Frisk assigned himself to be the primary reporter on a pro sports beat only once. That rarity ...
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Feder: 'Hungry Hound' Steve Dolinsky leaving ABC 7's eat beatJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - Steve Dolinsky, the award-winning food critic who's been covering the eat beat with gusto for more than 25 years in Chicago, is stepping down as the "Hungry Hound" at AB...
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Why Vanderbilt women's basketball decided to end season after only 8 gamesJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - They tried. Again and again, they tried so hard to make it work. Like most athletes around the country, the players on the Vanderbilt women's basketball team were so hap...
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The new federalismJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - By Susan Estrich The U.S. COVID response has been called "federalism at its best" - treating the states as "laboratories of change," as former Justice Louis Brandeis on...