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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Flashback 2000: Building model ships is a lost art

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      The boys will be home, tonight, if the travel gods smile upon them. First time in, well, quite a while. Plus two daughters-in-law and ...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

Dolton mom forced to give birth at the side of the road, symptom of broken health care system

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Alena Ariel Wells      Both my boys were born in Evanston. Which at the time seemed wrong, since we lived in the city.      "Why Evanst...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Flashback 2010: Happiness is . . . an empty voicemailbox

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      Nobody calls — well, scams, and automatic pharmacy reminders. That's about it. Rarely a real person. Emails too are mostly pellets...
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Saturday, November 22, 2025

A cautionary tale

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"Praying hands,"  by    Albrecht Dürer (Albertina Museum, Vienna) .             Readers write to me all the time, sometimes sharin...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Landscapers hit hard by ICE blitz, '...accused of the crime of working'

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Barbara Kruger, The Art Institute      Rey was just doing his job — cleaning up a yard in Rogers Park one morning at the end of October — wh...
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Thursday, November 20, 2025

"Beauty emergency"

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      Tuesday morning, after our walk, I went up our driveway to toss Kitty's morning contribution into the trash can by the garage and ...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

With 'Amadeus,' Robert Falls shocks by not shocking

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  Ian Barford      We legacy media skew old. The grizzled goat in front of me, picking up press tickets at the Steppenwolf Theatre on Sunday...
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