Chuck Goudie
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Identical wakes for McNamee twins, 22 years apartJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Although it is difficult to remember what I did last Tuesday, I distinctly remember where I was 22 years ago last Tuesday. I was standing on a tree-shrouded driveway off...
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Words of perspective amid the precipitationJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - When you have gone mano-a-mano with the Gambino crime family, slogged through the wreckage of an embassy bombing, pursued Osama bin Laden and Scooter Libby and strung up...
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Two top-paid state hires on hot seat for U of I clout listMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - "The buck stops with Chancellor (Richard) Herman for the Urbana campus and with me for the entire University which includes the Urbana campus." Actually, a lot of bucks ...
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A modest proposal for where to house Gitmo detaineesMay 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois has given America some big names over the years. Abe Lincoln, Jack Ruby, Barack Obama and Jenny McCarthy. And some big-time inventions. The department store, r...
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Birth secret revealed: 'I was a hockey baby'May 17, 2009 11:00 pm - If it wasn't for the Detroit Red Wings, you wouldn't be reading this column. Someone else's words would be printed here. You see, I was a hockey baby. The story begins ...
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'Most of what you learned at college, you will never really use'May 10, 2009 11:00 pm - In an effort to recoup even some of the college tuition payments that we have made the past four years, I would have been delighted to offer my daughter's college a cut-...
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'I have never heard of any City Council member ...'May 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Tonight is the anniversary of the deadliest event in Chicago Police Department history. On the evening of May 4, 1886, as a drizzle fell on the city's near West side, a ...
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Blagojevich's next trick, wearing his bathrobe to court?Apr 26, 2009 11:00 pm - When Milorad the Magnificent thanked a federal judge for sparing him the gagging chore of eating jungle bugs, he was partially correct. You see, the man who was Illinois...
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Yes Virginia, there is a Crook CountyApr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - The first time I saw the term "Crook County" was more than 25 years ago. Some shady judges and greaseball lawyers had just been indicted on federal corruption charges in...
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The Blago brothers, a wristwatch war and other exposésApr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Congratulations to Illinois for making it to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA basketball tournament. Not the University of Illinois of course. The Illini were knocked out by pow...