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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Flashback 2000: Model in-laws come through again

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     In a few days the boys will have been here for three months, studying and sheltering in place after their schools shut down. It has bee...
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Monday, June 15, 2020

Clinical trials press forward in age of COVID

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        Jim Butler is receiving his monthly 45-minute infusion of drugs.      What kind of drugs? He doesn’t know. Nor do the nurses admin...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

One last phone call from Burt Natarus

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Burt Natarus (Photo by Richard Chapman/Used with permission)      I was about to begin this sentence, "Most aldermen..." when...
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Saturday, June 13, 2020

Happy birthday, Kier.

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     "Well-we-jus-got-back-an-I-wish-I'd-never-leave-now...."       —"Where'd you go?"      "Who'd...
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Friday, June 12, 2020

O’Hare couple have a home—until June 23

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     Life is looking up for Linda and Manny Benavides.      They are no longer sleeping on chairs at O’Hare International Airport, late in...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

The lesson of the ginkgo

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    May, if you recall, was the coldest ever in Chicago, with a polar vortex that dropped down from Canada and scorched the area's bud...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Can white America overcome its slaveholder mentality?

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     It can be difficult to forgive those who wrong you. But it’s much harder to forgive those you’ve wronged.      That, in a nutshell, is...
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