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Manker: In search for answers, maybe we need to ask different questions

May 16, 2019 at 6:06 a.m.

By now you've no doubt heard of the petition circulated at Naperville North High School that articulates, in the words of some students there, that the school places too much...

Manker: Grocery chain’s plans to fill ‘old Menards’ a long-sought wish for 15 years

May 16, 2019 at 6:05 a.m.

The Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. And the vacant old Menards building on Ogden Avenue in Naperville is finally getting...

Manker: So many reminders of home so far away from Naperville

May 16, 2019 at 6:05 a.m.

Amazing how getting away from home can still feel like home in some ways. Our family experienced just that feeling last week on a spring break vacation to Arizona. Across...

Manker: Kids and cell phones means expect certain inevitabilities

May 16, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

As a parent, when one crosses the mental hurdle of acknowledging the time is right to get their child a phone, said parent has resigned themselves to a few inevitabilities:...

Manker: St. Pat’s parade makes big town feel like small community

May 16, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

Of all the activities that comprise a community, a parade truly demonstrates how a community really is more than just the sum of its parts. That fact was on full...

Manker: Looking toward a busy spring, every hour counts

June 5, 2018 at 4:39 p.m.

Here in the first full week of March, we find ourselves at that strangest of times, the intersection of what the calendar tells us is the end of winter, but...

Manker: Coldest Saturday of new year doesn’t lessen ale fest fun

May 16, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

Dozens of craft beer vendors and 15 food trucks gathered for a Saturday afternoon festival make for a pretty good 40th birthday party. That was the scene at Naperville's Frontier...

Manker: Birds-and-bees talk brings back memories

June 5, 2018 at 9:05 p.m.

The first topic of this column when it started about two years ago was on how I had recently taken our eldest child to the "Life Begins" talk at Naperville...

Manker: Kind city workers make losing an old friend easier to bear

June 5, 2018 at 11:05 p.m.

Last fall I told you about the parkway ash tree in front of our house, the one whose lush canopy had long since vanished. Like so many others throughout Naperville...

You don't have to like Toby Keith's politics to go to his show, and you don't have to go to his show if you don't like his politics, columnist Rob Manker says.

Manker: In Ribfest music flap, freedom and neighborliness must prevail

June 6, 2018 at 1:03 a.m.

At this point, you've probably heard about the dust-up in some corners of Facebook and elsewhere following the announcement that country music star Toby Keith will be playing at the...

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