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Meet Mr. Worst

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 …

The worst thing my mother ever made me wear

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For a boy, every hand-me-down means one fewer time he’ll have to go shopping. So I was fine with Mom assigning a lot of old clothes to me. I didn’t care about color or style. I had no style. And my clothes were usually caked …