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Friday, November 14, 2025

World Diabetes Day points to often-ignored ailment

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     The first reference to insulin in a Chicago newspaper was both late and maddeningly provincial.      The Chicago Daily News debuted the...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Happy Feast of St. Cabrini

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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini's arm bone, on display at her Lincoln Park shrine.     There are a lot of Catholic feast days — 25 in Novembe...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

'Days of Rage' evokes protests of 1960s and resonates today in a big way

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  Dontaye Albert (left) confronts Olivia Tennison in Steven Levenson’s “Days of Rage.”  Photo by Sam Bessler      "Standing up and sayi...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Retirement doesn't mean veterans stop helping their comrades or their country

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  Brig. Gen. Thomas Kittler, U.S. Air Force (retired).      Soldiers. Sailors. Marines. Each Nov. 11, when Veterans Day rolls around, crews ...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

"Always happy to save a reporter's ass"

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A Vanitas Still Life, by Pieter Claesz (Franz Hals Museum)      Sixty-five is not 57. That's for sure. While living through my 50s I fe...
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Works in progress: Donald Colley — 'Honesty should guide the pen'

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     Usually I run "Works in progress" on Saturdays, such as Lane Lubell's well-received post yesterday. But this week I got ...
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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Works in progress: Lane Lubell — The Intervention of Dictionary.com

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     EGD is interested in many things —politics, culture, products, birds. Words themselves merit special attention. Today we welcome a gues...
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