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I would pay to read a book of just Cats reviews.

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BREAKING: The Region has brokered a peace treaty between Poland and Mexico.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago guard uniforms are incredible.

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"So I says to da wife in da frunchroom, der was dis jagoff at da Jewels," opens the new romance novel "You Had Me at Italian Beef and Sausage Combo"

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Chicago accent among top 10 most attractive in the U.S., survey finds

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I love Chicago, it will be restored to its full glory someday soon.

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Retail stores that have grand pianos: 1. Nordstrom 2. Von Maur 3. Piano stores 4. The Schererville Menards for some reason

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Ball Arena is named after the Ball Corporation, which was long based in Muncie before moving to the Denver metro in 1998. It leveled the Hoosier Slide in Michigan City, which was once the tallest dune in the Indiana Dunes. It hauled off all the sand and turned it into Ball Jars.

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What happened to American Integrity, you ask? Why, it's dumping a load of iron ore in Gary.

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Scrooge, great guy, tremendous businessman. Believe me, deserves better than low-energy Cratchit. Tiny Tim, a loser. Sad! #TrumpBookReports

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I’m not an actual hero but I am a war veteran and was recognized as tonight’s “White Sox Hero of the Game” thanks to my amazing wife.

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The Region’s Barbie Dreamhouse

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The coast of Indiana sounds like a joke but it’s actually quite striking.

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It will forever be known as the Sears Tower.

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6 years

Hero business reporter writes every article in business section three days in a row.

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The White Sox invested more in these bagpipers than in their roster.

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I just climbed 94 floors to the top of the Hancock for the American Respiratory Association’s Hustle to honor my grandfather and grand uncle who helped build it while working as architectural draftsmen at American Bridge in Gary.

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Happy Earth Day from Northwest Indiana

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3 years

Happy Earth Day from Northwest Indiana!

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7 years

BREAKING: #Bears have traded away all their remaining draft picks for the next two years for a fistful of magic beans.

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4 years

State of Indiana: Can I copy your homework? Indiana Daily Student: Yes, just change it a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied.

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4 years

BREAKING: U.S. Steel lays off more workers in third round of cuts in last few months.

U.S. Steel lays off more workers in third round of cuts

The company laid off an unspecified number of non-union employees at its Gary Works mill and the Midwest Plant in Portage as part of another national round of layoffs.

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I paid $200 for these bleacher seats at the Field of Dreams game and I can’t see anything.

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Local journalist wrote whole front page by himself today

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BREAKING: The Museum of Science and Industry announced it's now officially the U-505 Mr. Submarine after the largest donation of cold cuts in the museum's history.

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The Indiana Dunes National Park wouldn't exist today if not for Save the Dunes President Dorothy Buell who had to enlist the support of U.S. Sen. Paul Douglas from Illinois to preserve the dunelands because no elected officials in Indiana would help.

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While working as architectural draftsmen at American Bridge in Gary, my grandfather Stanley and granduncle Eugene helped build the Sears Tower, which turned 50 today.

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Christ Church Cathedral on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis caged the holy family, "three of the most famous refugees in world history," to protest border policies.

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Scabby the Rat showing some Irish pride this St. Patrick’s Day

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@meredithcolias @Hielamonster @nw3 @Simon_Barrett Back in my day we used to eat asbestos right out of the walls. We were stronger then. And more plucky and patriotic.

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There are many regions. But there's only one Region.

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Reporter: Working 9 to 5? Working 9 to 9 would be the newspaper version of that song. @OHnewsroom

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Soon, the finest French fried shrimp, smelt and fish chips will be able to be savored the way they're meant to be — out of a paper carton outside overlooking rusting, hulking machinery along the post-industrial landscape of the Calumet River.

Landmark Calumet Fisheries to reopen later this month

Soon, the finest French fried shrimp, smelt and fish chips will be able to be savored the way they're meant to be – out of a paper carton outside overlooking

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2 years

New baby just dropped

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10 months

In holy flipping crap news

U.S. Steel exploring potential sale after rejecting offer from Cleveland-Cliffs

U.S. Steel is exploring a potential sale or sale of assets in a move that could have seismic repercussions for the domestic steel industry and Northwest Indiana.

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Spotted a celebrity at the Indiana Dunes State Park First Day Hike

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The Region is so beautiful this time of year.

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Indiana has the ninth most Croatian-Americans in the country, and I guarantee you that all of them live in the Region.

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4 years

Going to try to eat 3.15 million pierogi all by myself this weekend to save Pierogi Fest

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Working on my screenplay "33 Krazy Kaplans Billboards Outside Hammond, Indiana."

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5 years

BREAKING: Manny Machado will not start for the White Sox on Opening Day.

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1 year

Happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate

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7 years

Editor: We have a quote calling a guy a first-class asshat and we're not going to use it? Copy editor: It should be in the lede. @OHnewsroom

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Sadly, this place has been closed for a few years.

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North Dakota wants to arrest a journalist who exposed security guards using dogs and pepper spray on protesters.

North Dakota arrest warrant for Amy Goodman raises fears for press freedom

The Democracy Now! host has been accused of entering private property during her reporting on the Native American protests of an oil pipeline

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How it started. How it’s going.

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@Hielamonster @nw3 @Simon_Barrett Builds strong bones. And character.

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50 Cent is probably the first headliner of Hammond’s Festival of the Lakes to go on to play the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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Editor: "We should be allowed to drink in the newsroom today. Special circumstances." @OHnewsroom #ohnewsroom @JournalistsLike

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3 years

BREAKING: Soldier Field announces new tenant.

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1 year

A Region classic

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4 years

The old Daily Herald newsroom probably doesn’t symbolize anything greater about the state of media.

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3 years

The South Shore of Lake Michigan is littered with shipwrecks.

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8 years

Editor: CNN overuses breaking news. Editor 2: Don't call it breaking news, just say here's some shit going on. #OhNewsroom @OHnewsroom

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4 years

Today I covered two protests, a Southlake Mall brawl, a swamp fire, an impaired driver spitting on a paramedic after flipping his van over on I-65, and a biker club taking over a downtown for a few hours. Never a dull moment in the Region.

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I'm honored to have won three Indiana Best in Journalism Awards this year.

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7 years

BREAKING: Northwest Indiana to close, be demolished.

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2 years

On this day in 44 BC, the inventor of the $5 Hot-N-Ready Detroit-style deep dish was assassinated! assassinated!

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4 years

My first book, which comes out in April, now has a cover.

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I can't help but think the White Sox would be playing in the World Series right now if it just weren't for our problems with pitching, hitting, fielding, base running, coaching, scouting, the farm system, depth, health, the front office, the ownership and the entire organization.

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3 years

Are you tired of going to beaches with no dumpsters in the water? Come to the scenic Calumet Region.

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"If the Cubs just won the World Series every day, it would save the newspaper industry." @OHnewsroom #ohNewsroom

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6 years

@nw3 @Hielamonster @Simon_Barrett We’re defending Gary, not skipping water filtration.

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Wednesday is now dollar pierogi night at the Steel Yard.

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I'm honored to have won a Hoosier State Press Association Award for business writing.

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Kawaan Short, the pride of Northwest Indiana. @kk_mr93

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Gary International Airport is currently deploying fighter jets to Chicago. City to retaliate by bombing Region pierogi factories.

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A trusted health care provider

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It’s louder in the UAW Local 551 hall than it gets in the United Center.

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4 years

Caller: Who's your health reporter? Reporter: These days, everyone kind of is. @OHnewsroom

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I have a joke about Whiting but I need to refine it.

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My first book Lost Hammond, Indiana comes out soon. Just signed a deal for my second book 100 Things to Do in Northwest Indiana Before You Die. The Region is to me what Mississippi was to Faulkner, the Yorkshire moors were to Brontë, and the toilet was to the Everybody Poops guy.

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Nothing like a Lake Michigan beach in January

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Starting off the New Year with a First Day Hike at the Indiana Dunes State Park

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9 years

Editor: The saggy pants story isn't showing up on the site. Reporter: Are you saying you can't pull up the saggy pants story? @OHnewsroom

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5 years

Sometimes I think Prime Day has become so commercialized we forget the true meaning of the holiday.

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4 years

A shuttered college turned into a fireworks store is the most Region thing I have ever seen.

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6 years

Are you tired of going to beaches where you don’t see a single steel mill, casino or oil refinery? If so, visit the beautiful Northwest Indiana coast.

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@Hielamonster @nw3 @Simon_Barrett I believe Gary lies on the shore of one of the largest sources of drinking water in the United States.

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4 years

Pierogi Fest 2020

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I’m honored to have won three Indiana Society for Professional Journalists Awards.

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Overheard in the newsroom: Dark Lord Day is kind of like Munster, Indiana's Coachella.

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3 years

The Bears have played without a quarterback for my entire life.

The Guardian

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Broncos will play Saints with no quarterback due to Covid-19 concerns

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It’s admirable what Twitter is doing here but I don’t think Cocaine Bear will be able to read this.

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3 years

BREAKING: U.S. Department of Transportation to boost South Shore Line poster production

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The Grand Calumet River was long one of the most polluted in the country. Today, I saw herons, egrets, cormorants, ducks and an otter there.

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I have a joke about the Region but neither Chicago nor Indiana will like it.

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The Twin City. The City of Champions. The Workshop of America. People flocked from all over the world to East Chicago, which became a remarkable melting pot because of its steel mills. E.C. is the subject of my new book, which The History Press will publish next month.

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3 years

BREAKING: All Hoosiers 16 and up will be eligible for coronavirus vaccines on March 31.

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3 years

Great, now the Southlake Mall has SARS.

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6 years

Editor: Hey Bill, got a sec? Reporter: Yes Editor, gesturing toward office: Come into our election hellhole @OHnewsroom #overheardinthenewsroom

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6 years

Whiting lakefront looks like Captain Cold zapped it with his freeze gun.

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I believe it was Baudrillard who first posited that society was inexorably moving toward simulacra that copied endless diluted copies that no longer had an original before his ill-fated and ultimately futile campaign to try to make "fetch" happen.

Entertainment Weekly

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Tina Fey is turning her Mean Girls musical into a movie

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2 years

Wrote the whole damn front page today

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Paczki is Polish for donut with enough sugar to stop the heart of a small horse.

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Secret Northwest Indiana is now an award-winning book.

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2 years

So I’ve been reading children’s books every night to my wife’s tummy but not because I’m crazy. There’s either part of an undigested burrito in there or the most brilliant, wondrous little girl.

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My God, it’s been assimilated.

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7 years

Fair Oaks Farms, the nation’s largest agritourism attraction, is building a hotel shaped like a barn. @nwi

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6 years

Kid at Pierogi Fest: Why are we walking so slow? Mom: There are a lot of people here. Kid: I hate people.

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5 months

Illinois minimum wage rises to $14 per hour Monday; Indiana's remains at $7.25

"With this new minimum wage increase, we are once again making Illinois a more affordable and equitable place to live for all of our residents," said Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

www.nwitimes.com

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