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Mike Downey, decorated sports writer and former Chicago Tribune columnist, dies at 72
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMike Downey, a longtime sports writer who wrote the Chicago Tribune’s “In the Wake of the News” column from 2003 to 2008, died Wednesday in California at ...
Angel: Everyone deserves someone who signs their emails 'Your biggest fan'
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 1 day agoI inherited my love of reading from both of my parents. But my love of reading newspapers? That came...
Yiddish theater and radicals found a home at Douglas Park Auditorium
Chicago Tribune· 13 hours agoIf the walls of the Douglas Park Auditorium could talk, they might well speak Yiddish. When it...
8 best electric lawn mowers
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoWhich electric lawn mower is best? Luckily, many electric lawn mowers have the power to handle small- to medium-sized yards. Corded-electric mowers:...
Chicago Tribune newsroom moving to the West Loop
Crain s Chicago Business· 3 days agoThe Tribune’s newsroom and printing facility are leaving the Freedom Center after the paper’s parent company struck a deal with Bally’s that cleared the way for the massive casino complex the ...
Mike Downey was the quickest wit in town ... and a sweetheart of a guy
Chicago Sun-Times· 3 days agoMike Downey was one of my sportswriting heroes. My first job out of college was at Star Publications...
Haul your beach essentials easily with these 11 beach carts
Chicago Tribune· 3 days agoWhat are the best beach carts? Fortunately, a beach cart makes it much easier to lug around all your...
Will Bally’s planned $1.7 billion Chicago casino get built by 2026? The odds may be shrinking.
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoTo paraphrase Mark Twain, reports that the planned $1.7 billion Bally’s Chicago permanent casino may be doomed before the first shovel is planted are, according to the company’s chairman, greatly ...
Mike Downey, Sports columnist who enlightened Times readers for 15 years, dies at 72
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHe was 72. His career took him from a suburban Chicago newspaper — where he began writing at age 14...
Rubin: A salute to the late Mike Downey — which he would have written better
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoTimes, in sports and then as a metro columnist. Retired, was lured back to work in sports by the ...
