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Commentary: What Croatia’s transition to the euro can teach us about the upside-down world of bitcoin

The transition of Croatia into the euro currency zone these days can teach us a lot about bitcoin in the U.S. According to the ideology of bitcoinism, the citizens of Croatia are making a huge mistake in obeying this transition and abandoning their legacy currency, the kuna. According to bitcoinism,…

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Commentary: Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest and COVID-19 illustrate contradictions in our medical system

In a recent "Monday Night Football" game, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field. An immediate response by the trainers, stadium medical staff and the superb intensive care team at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center saved Hamlin’s life. The University of Cincinnati is…

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Bulls recap: Zach LaVine’s 38 points aren’t enough as DeMar DeRozan misses his 1st game of the season

The Chicago Bulls couldn’t rustle up any fourth-quarter magic without All-Star forward DeMar DeRozan, who missed his first game of the season in Wednesday’s 100-97 road loss to the Washington Wizards.

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‘The Last of Us’ review: ‘The Walking Dead’ meets ‘Station Eleven’ in this HBO adaptation of the video game

Based on the video game of the same name, HBO’s “The Last of Us” is a post-apocalyptic story about a population that has been decimated by a pandemic. Instead of a COVID-like virus, the culprit is a parasitic fungus that turns people into zombies, spreading the sickness and its long,…

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‘Skinamarink’ review: In this eerily abstract low-fi thriller, home is where the heart isn’t

The creepiest moments in the horror genre often come down to a single question provoked by slowly dawning terror; a certain degree, strategic or otherwise, of visual frustration; or a bit of both. Wait. What am I seeing here? That is the question.

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Review: ‘Plane,’ the tale of a plane that gets struck by lightning, crash-lands into an island of terrorists but is saved by Gerard Butler. I enjoyed it

In the pitch meeting stage, “Plane” carried the title “The Plane,” and now it doesn’t. All excess cargo, even if it’s three letters — out the window! There’s too much to handle with this thing already!

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Chicago commutes are worst in US, report shows

Chicago-area expressway traffic continued to bounce back with a vengeance from early pandemic lows in 2022, as the region’s commuters lost more hours to congestion than drivers in any other major U.S. city studied in a new report.

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As bombshell trial nears, new details emerge in alleged plot by ComEd to influence Michael Madigan

CHICAGO — Two months ahead of trial, federal prosecutors late Tuesday revealed new details of wiretapped conversations and other evidence they intend to use against four people accused in an alleged bribery scheme between Commonwealth Edison and then-House Speaker Michael Madigan.

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Paul Sullivan: Cubs fans will finally get to hear from Tom Ricketts — even if they don’t like the answers

CHICAGO — It has been five long years since Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts held a question-and-answer session with fans at the Cubs Convention.

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Commentary: The House speakership saga exposes America’s self-centeredness

The late Madeleine Albright, a former U.S. ambassador and secretary of state, once referred to the United States as the “indispensable nation.” This catchy phrase has been invoked by U.S. politicians and analysts ever since, nearly a quarter-century after it was first uttered.

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‘A Game Maker’s Life’ explores how Jeffrey Breslow made it into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame

CHICAGO — Jeffery Breslow’s life and the lives of those he worked with making toys for children were shattered on the morning of July 27, 1976, when another employee named Al Keller walked into his place of work with two handguns and began to kill.

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Commentary: Clean air should not be for sale. Why Chicago needs a clean buildings ordinance

As a young boy, my asthmatic lungs knew when harvest started in the nearby farm fields of central Illinois. Without a combine in sight, I knew that the work had begun.

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After a series of armed robberies of street vendors, Little Village residents organize to protect each other

CHICAGO — Every day, just before 4 a.m., the streets of Little Village begin to fill with the scent of homemade tamales and the 26th Street business corridor lights up with an influx of cars and the chatter of those getting ready to start their day.

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Ryan Poles says Bears are ‘excited’ to see Justin Fields develop as the starting QB in 2023, but improved passing is needed

CHICAGO — When Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields recapped his season with reporters Monday, he was asked about taking ownership of the team.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs comprehensive gun bill banning sale of military-style firearms

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police.

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Illinois House approves measure banning military style firearms, which Gov. JB Pritzker says he will sign

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House gave final approval Tuesday to a comprehensive measure to ban military style firearms that was drafted by Democrats, which now awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature even as gun rights advocates contend it is unconstitutional and vow a legal challenge.

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Ex-Chicago Bear Brian Urlacher sues Texas hair restoration company for $50K over blog post

Brian Urlacher restored his hair. Now he is suing to defend his right to flaunt it.

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Dan Wiederer: Bears fans were forgiving during GM Ryan Poles’ 1st season. Now the pressure’s on to capitalize on a big window of opportunity.

CHICAGO — While much of Chicago celebrated Sunday afternoon as the Bears lost to the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Texans became accidental magicians in Indianapolis, general manager Ryan Poles insists he wasn’t feeling it.

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How baseball is rallying behind White Sox closer Liam Hendriks in his cancer fight

CHICAGO — “Whatcha got?” Liam Hendriks asked as a reporter approached before an early August game in Kansas City, Mo.

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Office buildings that offer internal amenities, like restaurants, could be key to luring workers back downtown

CHICAGO — Nearly three years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many office workers still work from home, especially on Mondays and Fridays, depriving restaurants of the healthy lunch crowds they need to stay afloat and damaging prospects for recovery downtown.

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Commentary: GOP insurrectionists mount a new attack on the Capitol by stalling House speaker election

Two years after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, some of the same far-right Republican members of Congress who refused to certify the lawful election of President Joe Biden are waging a new attack on democracy by throwing the U.S. House into chaos.

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Commentary: The border ‘crisis’ is a problem that we can solve

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently called the challenge the city is facing in serving an influx of migrants a crisis created by the Republican governor of Texas. As an academic who studies and teaches refugee policy, I agree the crisis is manufactured, but its roots are much deeper and effects…

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A librarian’s dream helps turn a waiting area at Cook County Jail into an educational nook for children who visit the incarcerated

CHICAGO — When 2-year-old K.D. walked with his aunt inside the waiting area of the Maximum Security Division at Cook County Jail to visit his father, he smiled.

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Editorial: Goodbye, Sears. Now Chicago needs to nurture its next great company

Holiday traditions come and go, but for many Chicagoans of a certain age, Christmas started when the “Wish Book” arrived in the mailbox from Sears, Roebuck and Co.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sets out 2nd-term agenda as weapons ban bill heads for final vote

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Seeking to build on the successes of his four years in office, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker offered a second-term agenda Monday that called for a state constitutional right to abortion, making preschool available to every family and making public college free for children in working-class families.

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