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The [Monday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

“In an interview on WJOL radio in Joliet last week, host Kevin Kollins asked [Gov. Bruce] Rauner what he does to ‘kick back’ in the winter when it’s not Harley-riding weather,” Bernie Schoenburg reports for the Springfield State Journal-Register.

“One of my favorite things to do is I like to go skatin,'” Rauner said.

Skatin’.


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In today’s Beachwood as well as postings since the last column on Thursday . . .
SportsMonday: Blackhawks Treading Ice
“There is nothing wrong with the Blackhawks that a four- or five-game winning streak won’t fix. There is nothing wrong with the Blackhawks that a four- or five-game winning streak won’t fix. There is nothing wrong with the Blackhawks that a four- or five-game winning streak won’t fix.”
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Confirmed: Exxon Knew
“A peer-reviewed study has confirmed ‘a discrepancy between what ExxonMobil’s scientists and executives discussed about climate change privately and in academic circles, and what it presented to the general public.'”
And the New York Times was complicit.
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Opening: Community In Color
“While some artists rely on the vibrancy of color to convey emotions connected to kinship, others choose to make work that more explicitly references the architectural and landscape elements that create a neighborhood.”
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Beachwood Sports Radio: Bears Coaching Search Already A Failure
Ryan Pace hire, too. Plus: Get Bill!; Cubs’ Stove Goes Cold; Say It Ain’t So, Niko; Q-Less?; Congratulations To The University Of Central Florida, National Champs!; Local College Basketball Teams Still Suck; Rick Hahn Continues His Unleashed! Tour; and Schweinsteiger Is Back!
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Olympic Athletes Struggle To Balance Their Sports With College
“Their stories illustrate how, for older students, getting a degree is like skating uphill.”
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TV Guide: That’s Entertainment!
Sung by Hot Fudge Show star Larry Santos.
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ChicagoGram


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ChicagoTube
“Prison Song” / Chicago Women’s Liberation Band

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BeachBook
A sampling.
The Beachwood Radio Hour #38: Lessons In Chicago Crime, Politics & Media. How Rahm Emanuel is both vulnerable and inevitable. Plus: Media Redlining; Cops vs. Civilians; and Convicted In Cook County.

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Obama’s Shoddy Human Rights Legacy.

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Cold Weather Hampers Great Lakes Shipping.

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TweetWood
A sampling.


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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Skatin’.

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Posted on January 8, 2018