six-column headline goes right hereReagan’s Chicago ties: Marshall Field’s and the Cubs
The centenary of Ronald Reagan’s birth this weekend may be celebrated more fervently in western Illinois, where the late president spent most of his formative years and where his small-government rhetoric plays well with conservative voters.But the Gipper and his family had Chicago links that extend beyond the year he spent in Hyde Park as a young boy.Born above a bakery in Downstate Tampico on …
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Cubs nearing long-term extension with Carlos Marmol
According to David Kaplan and Fred Mitchell, two baseball writers for the Chicago Tribune, the Cubs are nearing agreement on a long-term extension with closer Carlos Marmol. There’s not much information available at the moment. The bit of news only got two sentences on the Tribune‘s website, one which pretty much reads like the introduction…
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U.S. stuck on the sidelines in Egypt – Sun, 06 Feb 2011 PST
Having grown up in the Chicago area, rooting for years for the luckless Cubs and more recently for the hapless Washington Nationals, I feel particularly qualified to comment on the Obama administration’s struggles to find a useful role to play in the crisis racking Egypt and the wider Arab world, let alone the blizzards in the Midwest and New England. I know that sports analogies – as well as …
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