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Sunday Comic: Christmas Day Without Dad

Some families don't have a sporting chance to celebrate together.

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The Wild Rover: Brothers Open Sports Bar With a Fresh Attitude, Menu

Jack and Jim Dillon, of Oak Forest, wanted a tavern people could go to catch a game and have a drink. Now they have it in Frankfort. And that's just the beginning.

When it came to opening their new sports bar together in Frankfort, Oak Forest brothers Jack and Jim Dillon have been pretty much in agreement on everything over the past two years it's taken to get their establishment off the ground. Whether it's been settling on the Vinyeards shopping center location or the freshly made items on the unique menu, the Dillons have been working off the same page. But the one thing they couldn't agree on? The bar's name. That is, until someone suggested The Wild Rover. "It's one of our dad's favorite Irish songs, and it was the only one we could ever agree on," said Jack Dillon. "It was brought up at a Sox game that we should name it The Wild Rover, and it was the only name me and (my brother) really liked. …

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