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Daily Herald opinion: Just fun and comfort: Aurora’s upgraded RiverEdge brings improvements without the taint of controversy

Daily Herald opinion: Just fun and comfort: Aurora’s upgraded RiverEdge brings improvements without the taint of controversy

Tourists who may want to see a successful multimillion dollar public works cleanup project likely will be in for some disappointment if they travel to Washington, D.C., a...

 
Daily Herald opinion: Warnings from Mother Nature: As records fall, it’s time to take tornadoes more seriously in northern Illinois

Daily Herald opinion: Warnings from Mother Nature: As records fall, it’s time to take tornadoes more seriously in northern Illinois

Illinoisans, like all Midwesterners, turn a wary eye to the sky when bad weather rolls in each spring and summer. We listen for the sirens, we calculate where the kids ar...

 
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Daily Herald opinion: The legacy of dads: Remember the power our fathers have on our lives

Daily Herald opinion: The legacy of dads: Remember the power our fathers have on our lives

EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial is adapted from one that first published on June 19, 2017. We came across this observation from gifted Indian author Kiran Desai a whil...

 

Letters to the Editor

Common sense missing

If Gov. Pritzker is that concerned about the budget, perhaps he should make significantly more veto actions to reduce the grants and other money given to all non-state ag...

 

Reviewing the ‘facts’ on spending

For the life of me, I can't understand why the Daily Herald prints letters like John Murray's. These aren't opinions; they are half-baked claims full of distortions and m...

 
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Facts that have not been held back

A recent letter to the editor regarding pushback on censorship neglected some key points. The writer is concerned about knowledge being withheld from us, in particular in...

 

Columns

A promise remembered for hard times

A promise remembered for hard times

Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson: As I have begun my summer three-mile power-walking workouts on a commercial street in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, where I pass a Waffle House and a Tim Hortons, I noticed two large billboard signs taking aim at President Donald Trump and the economy.

 
The quiet public service that surrounds us every day

The quiet public service that surrounds us every day

It is inspiring, or should be, to read about people like Gregory Sarlo of Des Plaines. Sarlo, who served as president of the Des Plaines Public Library Board of Trustees ...

 
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Republicans hang on

Republicans hang on

Syndicated columnist Byron York: By a number of conventional measures, the Republican Party should be headed for a huge loss in this November's House midterm elections. But some experts think the results will be much closer than originally thought. The problem for Republicans is those experts still think the GOP will lose, just not in an old-fashioned blowout.

 

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