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Biblioracle: My 3 new favorite book-related podcasts (and send me yours)
Because I am a consumer of book-related podcasts, I think that every so often I should do the dedicated readers of this column the favor of sharing some of my favorites.
Workers who assemble Boeing planes are on strike. Will that affect flights?
A strike by some 33,000 Boeing machinists has halted production of the American aerospace giant’s best-selling airplanes.
Mental health panel event focused on BIPOC youth coming to Naperville’s North Central College in Naperville thanks to a group of student leaders
The event, called “Our Voices, Our Minds: BIPOC Youth Navigating Mental Health,” will take place at 5:30 to 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday.
Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving in New York
Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving Friday, resolving the criminal case stemming from his June arrest in New York’s Hamptons.
Column: As the White Sox home in on the worst record in baseball history, here are some of Chicago’s other worsts
Being the worst at something is not what we strive for, but it happens, as White Sox fans have learned. As Chicagoans, we should be used to it by now.
What to do around Chicago: Mexican Independence Day, Englewood Music Fest and the final Fire games of summer
This is also the weekend for Ravenswood ArtWalk and American Writers Museum has days dedicated to Gabrielle Zevin’s “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.”
Review: ‘The Roommate’ on Broadway has stars much bigger than this story
Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone are roommates in a story set in Iowa City. Farrow especially delivers a performance you can’t look away from.
Pilots of an Alaska Airlines jet braked to avoid a possible collision with a Southwest plane
Pilots of an Alaska Airlines jet aborted a takeoff in Nashville to avoid a possible collision with a Southwest Airlines plane.
Money rolls in on US election bets after judge clears the way
People began betting on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections within minutes of a federal judge’s ruling allowing the bets.