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The appearance of the 17-year cicadas this year will mark the fourth emergence of the red-eyed, orange-veined creatures in my lifetime — thus, my fourth cicada birthday, Scott Fornek, an editor at the Sun-Times, writes.
In Meta’s latest flex, it’s threatening to cut news from Facebook because a bill in the Illinois Senate wants megaplatforms to give news outlets their fair cut of ad revenue. Our head of audience engagement has some words to share.
Though my wife’s parents were getting older and less able to live alone, it took a long time to persuade them to move closer to us. They did, and just in time, John O’Neill, an editor at the Sun-Times, writes.
Somehow, deadline pressure can’t beat Midwestern decency, the Sun-Times’ Kwame Opam, a newcomer to Chicago, writes.