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What Highland Park really looked like
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Irv Leavitt
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Northbrook decision: follow the money
Former Northbrook Village President Gene Marks, left, rejected by voters 12 years ago, wants back in.
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Irv Leavitt
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Returning to the Land of the Living
All year, I've spent less time with a keyboard than with ambulances, MRIs, wheelchairs, nurses and hallucinations
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Irv Leavitt
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The suburb where voting doesn't matter
The trains run on time in Skokie. Snow is plowed in a timely manner. Garbage gets picked up. The tax base is varied and strong. The fire department is…
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Irv Leavitt
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Tony LaRussa's quiet departure
LaRussa could come back sooner or later or not at all. He’s probably not going to be much more successful unless he has a remarkable Arizona epiphany.
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Irv Leavitt
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Move Along. You Can’t Afford to Live Here.
Having a hard time making ends meet? Join the club. It’s a big one. About half the renters in America can’t afford to pay the landlord.
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Irv Leavitt
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Skokie politicians crawl toward their own people
Gail Schechter leading a press event outside Skokie Village Hall Monday. Lately, even when Skokie does the right thing it does it the wrong way.
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Irv Leavitt
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The case for suicide
The examined life can be discouraging
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Irv Leavitt
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“The Last of the Giants:” Rabbi Robert Marx, Chicago Civil Rights Legend, dies at 93
An obituary in his own words
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Irv Leavitt
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Statues don’t say much, but they keep making the same point forever
I was in Cary, North Carolina and in a very bad mood.
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Irv Leavitt
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Vaccination reunion
At the end of the month, I will see and touch my only child for the first time in over a year.
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Irv Leavitt
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A 17th-Century Philosophy of Car Repair
When I was 19, the windshield wiper motor on my first car quit. I refused to replace it. I’d be damned if I was going to pamper a faded old Chevrolet…
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Irv Leavitt
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