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Constable: 'Am I Racist?' just gets conversation startedJun 16, 2020 5:30 am - The number of people searching Google for the answer to "Am I Racist?" has never been higher. Well, I certainly don't need some online quiz to answer the question of whe...
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IPGA schedule still includes top tournamentsJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - The Illinois PGA had planned to open its tournament season in March, but it still has yet to hold a competitive event. Twelve have been canceled and another nine postpon...
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Feder: WBEZ cuts 12 jobs, ends production deal with 'Sound Opinions'Jun 16, 2020 1:00 am - Facing a 20 percent revenue decline in the wake of the pandemic shutdown, the nonprofit parent company of public radio news/talk WBEZ 91.5-FM today announced the layoffs...
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Guest view: Protests are opportunity to make a more just societyJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - By Vaseem Iftekhar The last few months have been the most challenging period in recent American history. The COVID -19 pandemic shook society with more than 100,000 deat...
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Feder: WGN Radio weighing afternoon comeback for Garry MeierJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - It's been more than five years since Garry Meier was replaced by Roe Conn as afternoon personality at news/talk WGN 720-AM. Now Meier, 70, may be on his way to reclaimin...
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Feder: WIND's Amy Jacobson wins battle to cover Pritzker news conferencesJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - In what supporters are hailing as a victory for press freedom, Amy Jacobson has won her battle to attend Governor J.B. Pritzker's media briefings as a journalist, Robert...
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Saunders: Academic freedom takes a hit in war for social justiceJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - In the war for social justice, academic freedom is an early casualty. Consider the plight of UCLA accounting professor Gordon Klein. A student sent Klein an email, scree...
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Rozner: The next baseball fight is the one to fearJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - Through all the baseball strikes and lockouts over the last 40 years, there has been one constant. It's that when the rhetoric gets the loudest, when the players and own...
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Feder: NBC 5 to stick with Michelle Relerford as solo weekend anchorJun 15, 2020 1:00 am - Don't look for WMAQ-Channel 5 to replace the late Dick Johnson as weekend news anchor at the NBC-owned station any time soon, Robert Feder writes. That's the official wo...
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Looking for truths, comfort in 'the gospel of this moment'Jun 15, 2020 1:00 am - I retired from the classroom two months before the pandemic hit. Just in time to avoid the overnight shift to teaching online but not the sense of being trapped in the p...