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Thursday, October 9, 2025

A lovely day in the city

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Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2025       I'm not a spot news kind of guy. Not anymore. My years of racing to a breaking story are long past — the pa...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'

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Patricia Smith      A great poet forges a world, then invites you in. Open "Leaves of Grass," and Walt Whitman grabs you by the sh...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

'It can all end today'— Chicago's Israeli consul general on the war in Gaza

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Cain killing Abel, by Johann Sadeler (Metropolitan Museum of Art) I initially declined an invitation to talk with the new Israeli consul gen...
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Monday, October 6, 2025

Fallen angels

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"Saint Michael the Archangel" by Andrea della Robbia (Metropolitan Museum of Art)        Tuesday is the second anniversary of the ...
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Sunday, October 5, 2025

"Like the generations of leaves..."

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      My wife and I, along with her sister and brother-in-law, went to Starved Rock on Wednesday for Yom Kippur. We've done so once befo...
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Saturday, October 4, 2025

Mixed message

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Starved Rock State Park, Oct. 1, 2025.      My first instinct was to simply post this photo without comment. Let the headline be the punchli...
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Friday, October 3, 2025

Survivor's plate

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       The problem with vanity license plates is that, typically, they're more vain than clever. "CAR4MOM" or "VROOOM...
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