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Almost 25 years ago, one of my older brothers was graduating from the University of Minnesota. He was a fixture on the dean’s list and a bur…

Weather, global warming, climate change – what’s the difference?It seems like these terms often are …

When reporter Katie Finlon told me she was working on a story about girls who wanted to join the Scouts BSA – a group most of us know as “Bo…

One Father’s Day, when I was 6 years old, I asked my dad why there was no such thing as “Kids’ Day,” and he said, “Because every day is kids…

I learned a few things at the DeKalb County Economic Development Corp.’s lunch this week about DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport.

At a Lifelong Learning class at Northern Illinois University this week, led by Elizabeth Bass, the broad-ranging discussion included the dec…

Last week I wrote about the potential future of the buildings that were once home to an auto dealership that could now be up for a public au…

Before I turned myself into a runner, I was a college student just fickle enough to give myself an out and elect not to go to class if it me…

Illinois has been a leading state in education innovation for many years. For a matter of fact, the very first community college began opera…

The legal ads in the Daily Chronicle (check them out, good stuff in there) have been advertising the Feb. 14 auction sale of what people com…