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Kass: Republican Bruce Rauner takes no position on gay marriage
Bruce Rauner, the multimillionaire Republican businessman who wants to become governor of Illinois, sat down with me for an interview Thursday and dodged questions about same-sex marriage. It took about four tries to pin him down on where he stands,...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Marriage, Kirk W Dillard, Elections, Politics
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Cubs' interests far afield from Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH — No, you couldn't have gone ice fishing Wednesday in Pittsburgh. That season has come and gone. It's time for baseball, even if it didn't seem like it at PNC Park, along the banks of the Allegheny River. After a pitch shattered his...Tags: Pittsburgh Pirates, Albert Almora, Scott Hairston, Brent Lillibridge, Alberto Gonzalez
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Samoa Air obesity policy weighs heavy on some
Mr. Puni weighs about 440 pounds, and these days he's one big angry Samoan. Like many others of great girth — Samoans and non-Samoans — he's peeved at Samoa Air's new policy to base the price of airline tickets on the weight of the...
Tags: Travel, BBC, Trips and Vacations, Samoa, Taste of Chicago
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All sides must put political nonsense aside
Not every night will you see Gov. Pat Quinn shaking hands with players in the Cubs dugout or Sen. Dick Durbin mingling with team Chairman Tom Ricketts on the field. Not every night at Clark and Addison will you find Sec. of State Hillary Clinton...
Tags: Fenway Park, Thomas Ricketts, Pat Quinn, Chicago White Sox, Barack Obama
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New leaf
To understand why the hiring of Brian Bannon as Chicago's public library commissioner caused a more-than-ordinary stir, let us quote a learned cultural authority. That authority is not Socrates. It is not Shakespeare. It is not Goethe. Nor is it...
Tags: John Milton, Chicago Tribune, University of Washington, Libraries, Merle Haggard
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Chicago man starts petition drive against new Ventra fare-payment card
Springlike weather is arriving late this year, but it's shaping up to be a long, hot summer for the Chicago Transit Authority. CTA President Forrest Claypool and his team will manage two difficult projects that are already unpopular with many riders...
Tags: Personal Income, Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, Richard M. Daley, Michigan Avenue
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Turkey president shops at Brooks Brothers and other NATO sightings
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, had dinner at upscale Mexican restaurant Mercadito Monday while in Chicago for NATO. And as you would expect, he had plenty of company. Besides the Prince's table of seven, the large...
Tags: The Publican, Chicago Restaurants, Christian Orthodoxy, Francois Hollande, Bronislaw Komorowski
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As the world was about to end, I foolishly wrote this column
You're probably all dead — me too — swallowed by the Mayan apocalypse that many of us (foolishly) thought was utter nonsense, once. Which means you're not even reading this. But still ... I probably shouldn't have spent my last day writing...Tags: Chicago City Hall, Patrick Fitzgerald, Rahm Emanuel, Greektown
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Union bosses love taxpayers' wallets
What if lawmakers passed a bill that allowed two dozen hand-picked political insiders to fan out across the state and walk up to you and demand your cash?
Not ask but demand.
Got a problem?
There is no passion in the demand, no anger, no urgency....Tags: Cook County Government, Michael Madigan, James Robert Thompson, Pension and Welfare, Executive Branch
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Lovable losers could be winners in Rosemont
A friend of Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens now living in Las Vegas called last week to see if the buzz about his buddy the White Sox fan offering to help build a new home for the Cubs was true. "He was like, 'What are you doing? You're a Sox guy,' ''...
Tags: Theo Epstein, O'Hare International Airport, Thomas Ricketts, Sports, Chicago White Sox
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Ricketts puts people above family business in Wrigley Field deal
Unless Carlos Marmol gets involved, the Cubs still hope to close a deal with the city to renovate Wrigley Field by Monday's home opener. Assuming the agreement can overcome a late-inning scare, planned improvements at the venerable 99-year-old...
Tags: Thomas Ricketts, Pat Quinn, Barack Obama, Chicago White Sox, Local Government
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Penny Pritzker resigns from the Chicago school board
Billionaire Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker resigned from the Chicago Board of Education on Thursday. A spokeswoman for Pritzker declined to provide a reason for the resignation. Pritzker is being vetted as a potential candidate for U.S. Commerce...
Tags: Unions, John Kerry, Elections, Chicago Teachers Union, Real Estate Sellers
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