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The [Thursday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

For completists, there was no Wednesday column.
1. Tom Skilling Lives In Edgewater.
“The fascinating thing about living in Edgewater is you get to see the whole range of weather here as nowhere else,” he says.


2. Is This Ohio Company Poisoning Chicago’s Far Southeast Side?
“In Chicago, nearly 20,000 people live within a 1-mile radius of S.H. Bell’s South Avenue O Terminal, which, according to the company’s website, is its second largest warehousing facility. Nearly two-thirds of those people are living below the poverty level, and almost 90 percent are minorities, according to the EPA. Of those living within 1 mile of the facility, more than 6,000 are children.”
3. Day Without Immigrants – Chicago.

See also: All These Chicago Restaurants & Grocers Are Closing For ‘A Day Without Immigrants.’
4. Inside The Small Evanston Company Whose Tech Was Acquired By Apple And Used By SpaceX.
“QuesTek’s buyer was described only as an unnamed Silicon Valley company, but multiple sources close to QuesTek say the purchaser was indeed Apple, who used the company’s alloys in its Apple Watch and Apple iPhone.”
5. Puzder’s Withdrawal Pains Franchise Supporters, But Cheers Workers Group.
The view from Franchise Times.
6. Republicans Begin Effort To Gut The Endangered Species Act.
Irony: We’re the endangered species.
7. Democrats Loudly And Mockingly Laughed At Rauner Yesterday.
Rich Miller: “I was astonished at the amount of derisive laughter during the address.”
8. Brain Damage In Former Players Fuels Soccer ‘Heading’ Fears.
“[P]rofessional soccer players might risk the same long-term cognitive problems suffered by boxers and some American football players.”
9. TODAY’S MUST-READ: Americans Have Insufficient Antipathy Toward The Extraordinarily Rich.
10. Commodifying dead children.


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BeachBook
CTA Riders Confused, Concerned As Homeland Security Checks Bags At Addison Red Line.

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New Owners Of The Two-Way Can Fuck All The Way Off.

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Colorado Newspaper Threatens To Sue State Legislator For Defamation.

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Hooters Opens First ‘Hoots” In Cicero.

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Pipelines Across Chippewa Lands In Wisconsin.

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American Greed Announces Airdate Of Episode About River North Dentist.

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TweetWood
A sampling.


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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Dang, nabbit.

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Posted on February 16, 2017