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News-Sun pressman George Houchin, second from left, was among the founders of the annual Help Them to Hope charity campaign. Houchin passed away earlier this year.

Moran: Carrying on the Help Them to Hope legacy

June 8, 2018 at 10:34 p.m.

There aren't many hard-and-fast rules in our chaotic household, but foremost among them is this: There will be no Christmas music until Thanksgiving is in the books. Well, Thanksgiving has...

Moran: Waukegan Bulldog band gears up for Chicago Thanksgiving Parade

June 12, 2018 at 3:39 a.m.

On Thanksgiving morning, when you curl up under a comforter with a warm holiday beverage — adult or otherwise — to watch the annual McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade on Channel 9,...

Branches fall off a tree in Libertyville following a freak November snowstorm in 2015.

Moran: November 2015 snowstorm mirrored in 2016 cold snap

June 8, 2018 at 11:37 p.m.

One year ago this weekend, at the tail end of an unusually mild November that would lead into an unusually mild December, Mother Nature decided to go on a bender....

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's City of Waukegan Washington Street Commercial Corridor Plan focuses on improving a venerable economic sector.

Moran: Washington Street in Waukegan eyed for post-mall improvement

June 9, 2018 at 1:21 a.m.

Old-timers and not-so-old-timers in Waukegan will tell you about the city's glory days, when Genesee Street was both the social and commercial center for the local population and beyond. What...

An itchy trigger finger lingers over the "Unfriend" tab on Facebook following Election 2016.

Moran: Friends engage in unfriending ways after Decision 2016

June 9, 2018 at 3:07 a.m.

On Tuesday, roughly 57 percent of eligible U.S. voters cast ballots for an office that affects 100 percent of all U.S. citizens. Ever since that time, self-styled political scientists —...

A Lake County polling place welcomes voters on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Moran: Snapshot of a millennial on Election Day

June 9, 2018 at 4:30 a.m.

After more than a calendar year of America attempting to tear itself apart from within, Election Day 2016 had arrived with the dawn. Technically, with Sunday's time change, polling in...

A dog named Wrigley, who will not have to change his name now that the Cubs have won the World Series.

Moran: The Cubs change our world by unwriting history

June 9, 2018 at 4:48 a.m.

Darth Vader would have Force-choked me. You remember what happened after Admiral Motti ranted about Vader's "sad devotion to that ancient religion" and how his sorcery hadn't conjured up the...

Completion of the Washington Street Underpass project at the Canadian National tracks in Grayslake has been pushed back from the end of November until July.

Moran: Grayslake underpass delay in the fall forecast

June 9, 2018 at 5:58 a.m.

November brings with it many things, including, of course, Major League Baseball. "DEADLINE PLAN FOR NOV. 1 AND NOV. 2 EDITIONS," read the marching orders from the copy desk on...

Two weeks before blowing out his knee, Kyle Schwarber patrols left field for the Chicago Cubs during a spring training game in March 2016.

Moran: Strange days indeed as Cubs approach November

June 9, 2018 at 7:09 a.m.

Seven months ago this week — March 23, to be exact — my extended family sat and watched Kyle Schwarber play left field for the Chicago Cubs. It was a...

St. Louis-born Harry Caray and the St. Louis-brewed beer he promoted are immortalized outside Wrigley Field.

Moran: Study material for everyone climbing aboard the Cubs bandwagon

June 9, 2018 at 7:34 a.m.

The best headache you've ever had started to take shape around 9:45 p.m. Saturday. "Yasiel Puig pinch-hitting ... and he will hit a ground ball towards short — Russell throws...

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