20 years later, Thornton vs. Brother Rice a great thing
Wednesday, I watched Thornton and Brother Rice play a brilliant high school basketball game in a Thornwood gym packed with passionate, respectful fans on both sides. The Wildcats won the...
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Oak Lawn’s ‘indoor park’ lets kids get a handle on fun
Taking a break while working his way through the Friendly Market, where he'd filled his cart with plastic broccoli, squash and carrots — and, inexplicably, two stuffed mice — 5-year-old...
Arvia: Consultant says jury wouldn’t like Sessions
What is a lie? Or, perhaps more germane to these politically parsing times, at what point would most reasonable people drop the bogus bomb? I ask because, well, Jeff Sessions....
Arvia: Weird weather isn’t climate, but change is gonna come
A few years ago, a friend moved to North Carolina — and promptly began a campaign to convince me to relocate. "You can play golf all year round," he said....
Arvia: Man’s friends run ad to help him get a date
For Valentine's Day, a love story. It has all the classic elements: Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy moves back in with mom. Boy finishes last in his fantasy...
Arvia: Resolution or reset, diet makes for interesting month
Now that Super Bowl Sunday has receded into Super Bowl Slug Day, wherein your body repays you for having gone Gaga over that card table full of wings, dips, chili...
Arvia: Tinley Park rookies love their bench roles
It is likely evidence of their years of work for the Village of Tinley Park that Joanne Carroll and Sue Pall weren't freaking completely out when I visited them last...
‘The growth of pickleball is on fire’
Terry TerHaar is the greatest badminton coach in Illinois high school history, winning six state titles and finishing in the top three seven times more before retiring from Andrew in...
Arvia: For Trump term, keep yelling or keep score
Dear Donald J. Trump voters, We can't go on like this. I'm not sure I will ever understand how anyone looked at Trump and decided, "Yes. This is a good...
Arvia: Jock shock? Not in lady lecturer’s loving cup talk
I believe it was the summer before heading into fifth grade, where we'd first have a locker room and would have to change for gym. Or it might have been...