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Irv Leavitt

  • Freelance Columnist, Chronicle Media, Freelance
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As seen in: Chicago Tribune, Glencoe News, Morton Grove Champion, Mundelein Review, Northbrook Star, Patch, Stars and Stripes
Ex-cabdriver, ex-Sun-Times, ex-Tribune Co., Ex-Pioneer Press, Ex-NYTimes Co., ex-Chronicle Media. Extraneous.
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Skokie politicians crawl toward their own people

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By Irv Leavitt
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Gail Schechter leading a press event outside Skokie Village Hall Monday. Lately, even when Skokie does the right thing it does it the wrong way. Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen – doubtlessly with the aid and agreement of Corporation Council Michael Lorge, the Skokie Caucus big shot – had come up with a really dumb idea that good people wanted him to get rid of.
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Picture This: Photos of Murdered Uvalde Kids on Instagram

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By Irv Leavitt
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott enjoying life. There’s a clamor to wake up Americans inured to the horror of murdered children by publishing pictures of some of the 19 kids shot to death Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas. It’s a strategy that has worked before to portray the cruelty of wholesale killing — in the American Civil War, World War II, the Vietnam War and Ukraine. It would probably be even more effective in this case. After all, it’s little kids.
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Whither Evanston, Skokie & Niles? Hard to tell

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By Irv Leavitt
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Carvana rendering (Village of Skokie) You can live in the same town for decades and still wonder how relatively important things are going to turn out. That’s the case right now if you live in Skokie, Evanston or Niles. It’s a crapshoot. Skokie trustees will take a vote Monday night on allowing a really weird addition to their town. But it may not be too weird for them. If you play the odds, you figure they’ll actually approve a 134-foot Carvana “car vending machine” at 9801 Woods Drive.
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