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Tom's Mailbag June 19, 2015

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One more chance for four free tickets to next Friday’s Danville Dans/Hannibal Cavemen game at historic Danville Stadium: What player on the Chicago Cubs once was a member of the Danville Dans?

Email me your answer to kacich@news-gazette.com.

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This week’s mailbag is another tasty gumbo of questions about discarded school equipment, physician losses at Carle, an unusual highway sign, a history of unsuccessful University of Illinois athletic directors, a delayed apartment project on University Avenue, where to recycle glass, a suddenly enormously popular Chicago hockey team and an untimely — or perhaps it is a very timely — question about a columnist who writes about race.