Click photo to enlarge. There's no time like the present Williston, North Dakota, is 893 miles west of Chicago. The sun comes up an hour later there. It sets an hour later. Weather conditions being equal, everything in nature happens about one hour after it happens here.
Flowers open snow melts bed lice crawl back into their secret hiding places.
Alarm clocks set for 6 a.m. bleat simultaneously in each location. Identical images of Matt Laurer sip identical coffee mugs in synchronization on North Dakotan and Chicagoan TV screens. Timecards clank in their punching machines. Everybody has their say on the infamous Carter email, staff quarrels, and hockey appreciation. The Columbia Chronicle is a student produced publication of Columbia College Chicago and does not necessarily represent, in whole or in part, the views of Columbia College administrators, faculty or students.