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Meet The Unemployee

Irv Leavitt is our humor writer, winner of the 2009 and 2010 Suburban Newspapers of America awards for best column writing in our category and the 2010 Chicago Headline Club's Peter Lisagor award for best feature writing. He has covered the news of 17 different …

Giggles and chortles with kids at Party Fantasy

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As I walked around pouring Sprite for 20 little kids at a birthday party, a 6-year-old looked up at me and asked, “Are you a clown?” The truth was I looked like a clown not because I was funny, but funny-looking. It was the stupid hat. Mostly.