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Sunday, May 24, 2020

The Cave Dwellers

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Joseph Mitchell       Greatness guides.  Or can, if we let it.      Several times in my career when, facing a dilemma, I pondered what m...
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Saturday, May 23, 2020

Texas Notes: Badass Women

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     The latest report from EGD's Austin bureau chief, Caren Jeskey.      We all know Jane Addams (1860-1935), a progressive social r...
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Friday, May 22, 2020

Stuck at home? Try living at O’Hare — since April

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Manuel and Linda Benavides at O'Hare airport (Photo for the Sun-Times by Ashlee Rezin Garcia)      Linda Benavides and her husband...
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Flashback 1991: Room 174—a dead end

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     An upcoming column required a call to the Cook County Medical Examiner Wednesday. I had a lovely conversation with someone from the cou...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

A 5th star on Chicago’s flag: pep talk or curse?

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        My people have a useful term that doesn’t translate well: kine hora . It’s Yiddish for “not the evil eye,” but means something ak...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Nurses: Tough, tender pros who love their jobs

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      I typically write three columns a week, but often there are extras, such as this. I had done a number of interviews with nurses, and t...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

Mock death with American-made flatware

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     Nobody is going to look back on the enormous toll of 2020 — the hundreds of thousands of lives lost, the vanished jobs, the businesse...
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