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Monday, November 12, 2018

'If we turn away from our brothers and sisters, we turn away from God'

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     The contrast would look trite in fiction.      Facing Lincoln Park, the luxurious Lincoln Park 2520, where condo prices soar toward $...
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Armistice Day, 2018

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        The small town where I grew up had a triangle downtown instead of a square, and at its center was a statue honoring those who ser...
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Saturday, November 10, 2018

The Saturday Snapshot #14

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     I could have written about the centennial of Armistice Day without actually visiting the Elks Memorial at Diversey and Lakeview. But...
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Friday, November 9, 2018

100 years since the end of World War I, a bloodbath that shaped Chicago

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"The Armistice: The Field of Battle, Europe, November 11, 1918” by Eugene Francis Savage (detail) in the Elks Memorial in Lincoln Par...
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Thursday, November 8, 2018

Sure Disney is fake; but it's such GOOD fakery

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        On Election Day, I posted a photograph of myself wearing a Mickey Mouse "VOTE" pin. A reader saw it and mentioned that h...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

‘Borne back ceaselessly into the past’ — Trump, racism and ‘The Great Gatsby’

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     Tom Buchanan does not shine in “The Great Gatsby.”      Rather, he lurks in shadow, eclipsed by Jay Gatsby, the pink-suited milliona...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

An Election Day prayer

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       Are prayers like wishes? In the sense that, if you share them with others, they won't come true? I'm not sure what the offici...
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