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The Mundelein Historical Commission is proud to present a special meet and greet author signing with eight local authors on Saturday, June 15, at the Mundelein Heritage Museum, 601 Noel Drive, in Mund...

The famous Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" begins: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both." The United States and the rest of the world faced a fork in the road with two possible options at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic: Attempt to control the spread of the virus through social measures and lockdowns or let the virus run its course naturally ("let it rip," as some have referred to it) in the hope of inducing herd immun...

How best to return to a 'normal life'?

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Over recent months, events worldwide should dispel notions of exceptional American malfeasance.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken another turn with new variants BA.2 and BA.2.12.1, which are apparently more contagious but less severe than their predecessors, causing a new mini-wave of infections

Why aren’t we paying more attention to the experience of other countries in responding to COVID-19? There is no particular country that has the answer to controlling the pandemic —

The Greek historian Herodotus lived through the plague of Athens, one of the world’s first great pandemics. He wrote, “Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.” So it is with COVID-19. In the US, we are currently in the middle of

The COVID Crossroads The winter of our COVID discontent is upon us. The U.S. has suffered over 28 million cases and 500,000 deaths during the pandemic year. But now we are at a crossroads, with the situation on the ground currently at odds with the one in the air, both metaphorically and literally. Many virologists and epidemiology experts forecast, with some confidence, that the next few weeks will see the worst of the pandemic, primarily the result of new viral mutants, more contagious and po...