Category: Elgin Courier-News Opinion

Vickroy: Viewing a total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime experience — and so is the long, crowded drive home

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There’s a dark side to viewing a solar eclipse along the line of totality. The light-years drive home.
A record number of Americans viewed the Great American Eclipse of 2017, when the swath of totality cut through southern Illinois. Granted, not all of the 154 million adults who watched it were with us on Interstate 57 later that afternoon, but, wow, it sure seemed like it.

Vickroy: When you share a birthday with a major metropolitan city, an ode seems in order

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Halloo, hallay, from the Bean to Union Station, here comes a day, or citywide celebration. On this March 4, by proclamation of the mayor; Chicago adds a year, while I simply turn grayer. You’re a windy 187, Me, a century-plus less, we have the same birthday, but not the same noblesse.