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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Celebrate Babbitt’s 100th by reading ‘It Can’t Happen Here’

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Sinclair Lewis in a Chicago hotel room in 1922.      In professional journalism, the story you set out to tell sometimes is not the story yo...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Welcome to Chicago, Darren; let me show you around

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     Darren, Darren, Darren ... the Hancock? Really? Was Trump Tower too expensive? Not that it’s a bad place, mind you. People live there. ...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Flashback 1990: Psychic-deli—We have seen the future, several times, in fact

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The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de la Tour (Metropolitan Museum of Art) If you look closely, you'll see why it encapsulates my view of ps...
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Monday, September 12, 2022

Enough with the complaining already

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     Show of hands: how many of you are tired of City Council members always complaining? Everybody? I thought so. These alderpeople jostle ...
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Sunday, September 11, 2022

'Don't you go' — Breaking the bad news to bees

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Bee hives at the Chicago Botanic Garden        "Oh no!" I said, surprised though not stricken, to learn of Queen Elizabeth II'...
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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Northshore Notes: No Moor

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      I'm almost embarrassed to say what my primary takeaway is on Northshore Bureau Chief Caren Jeskey's lovely rumination on child...
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Friday, September 9, 2022

‘Homelessness’ finally eliminated!

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Night Ministry worker checks on unhoused couple on Lower Wacker Drive.      “Look at his shirt!” I said to my wife, aghast, as we watched tw...
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