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A serious simulation

A serious simulation

Oak Lawn Community High School students wobbled as they tried to walk on white lines in the school parking lots, and swerved and crashed as they attempted to navigate golf carts through a course of orange construction cones last Friday. The students weren’t drunk, but they were wearing special goggle simulated a state of intoxication. The driving course and sobriety tests were part of the Cook County Sheriff’s Police’s DUI and... Read more

  • Forget them not

        In honor of veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the United States, the village of Worth and the Marrs-Meyer American Legion Post 991 held their annual Memorial…

  • Flip that house?

       Evergreen Park trustees on Monday delayed voting on a proposed ordinance that would require certain home buyers to pay the village an up-front fee of $10,000.  The proposed ordinance would pertain…

Sports

Bartosh

Good sportsmanship will never replace good play   (Reprinted from Aug. 20, 2009)     Winning is everything.   Although Vince Lombardi’s famous declaration isn’t typically quoted with complete accuracy, those three words have nevertheless resonated with sports participants and fans for decades. Anything less than success is considered unacceptable.   That opinion is OK if it’s being used as a motivational tool to encourage athletes to give it their best shot, but far too many people adopt an all-or-nothing attitude. Other than Cubs fans,... Read more

  • Two steps forward

    Class 2A Chicago Christian Regional  Regional title concludes Knights’ first playoff week…

  • Ruling over the Red

    Perfect week lifts Spartans to SSC crown     Oak Lawn is first at last, and it’s there b…

  • Northern exposure

    Vikings highlight so-so week by routing Phoenix     For much of the 2013 high school sea…

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DiCaprio great as the 'Gatsby'

DiCaprio great as the 'Gatsby'

It's been a bit of a shaky ride for Baz Luhrman's version of "The Great Gatsby." His take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic was originally slated to open during the 2012 holiday season, then was pushed back to July, then moved forward to this month. There is no doubt Luhrman's projects have tended toward the extravagant, to put it mildly, and the director is known to be a perfectionist. Still, the constant... Read more

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