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Friday, April 23, 2021

Pausing to savor Ald. Burke’s anti-Semitism

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Metropolitan Museum of Art      “You know as well as I do, Jews are Jews,” Ald. Ed Burke (14th) said into a federal wiretap , “and they’ll d...
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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Flashback 2011: 'Never' could be now in city mayoral race

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      Time really shoots by. When I saw Ald. Ed Burke in the news Wednesday, talking trash about Jews into a federal wiretap, I first looked...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Police parade goes on and on while we watch

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     The earliest movies were glimpses of real life. Workers leaving a factory, a train arriving, a blacksmith hammering. Shot in 1895, thes...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Green frog

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       Regular reader Tony Galati shared this photo, taken in the eerie half light of the 2017 eclipse.      "I think the frog was conf...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

Cop ‘didn’t see the value, the humanity’

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     “I grew up in a gang-infested neighborhood. I don’t know a Latino who didn’t,” said Luis Gutierrez, the former congressman and long-ago...
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Sunday, April 18, 2021

Flashback 2000: "Front and centerfold"

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Jeff Cohen, 2000 (Photo by Rich Chapman, used with permission)      My friend and former Sun-Times colleague, photographer Rich Chapman, sen...
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Texas notes: Flowing locks

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      One of Austin bureau chief Caren Jeskey's last dispatches from the Lone Star State before she returns to the welcoming embrace of ...
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