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Chicago censorship of pro-life sign?

Funny, how some things in Chicago just disappear. Like the former lakefront airport, Meigs Field, bulldozed in a middle-of-the-night blitzkrieg ordered by Mayor Richard Daley. Or a sign posted a few feet outside a North Side abortion clinic, offering women in difficult, unplanned pregnancies a different, life-affirming alternative. Now this wasn’t just a crude, hand-painted... Read more »

By Dennis Byrne,
March 9, 2010 at 9:22 am

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Byrne honored for pro-life columns

Aid for Women, a life-affirming pregnancy resource center affiliated with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, has presented Dennis Byrne, a Chicago Tribune columnist and ChicagoNow blogger, with its Praesidium Vitae Award for his bold and consistent journalistic defense of life. On Oct. 16, Dennis will be the featured speaker at Illinois Citizens for Life... Read more »

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October 8, 2009 at 7:09 pm

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