All Stories from July 2, 2016 (Change date)
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Love your home with all its unique 'flaws'Jul 05, 2016 7:15 am - "I love my home!" These are four words that are not often heard from homeowners. Frequently what is heard are things like: "I wish my house were larger," "My closets are...
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Plenty of plants will grow in dry shadeJul 08, 2016 6:12 am - I live on an acre with areas baked in sunshine and others shaded by mature trees. When I was younger, I spent more time in the sunny gardens tanning my back while planti...
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What's SUP? Yogis head to suburban lakes, find serenity on paddle boardsJul 07, 2016 6:24 am - Is there surfing in the suburbs? You might think so if you stumbled across a SUP yoga class this summer at a local lake. You'd see participants balanced on boards, doing...
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Classic cars: Second rebuild was a homecoming of sortsJul 06, 2016 6:19 am - The south Florida sun beat down, rippling off the asphalt in a misty haze. It was a hot one but the two teens barreling down the highway in 1981 didn't care. They were o...
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Kasper: What distinguishes Chicago Cubs from others?Jul 04, 2016 5:35 pm - We are now in the fifth season of the Theo Epstein regime in Chicago, and I've been thinking lately about what distinguishes this baseball department from others I've be...
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Boomers lose pitching battle with CornBeltersJul 03, 2016 3:46 pm - The Schaumburg Boomers were on the short end of a 1-0 pitcher's duel with the Normal CornBelters on Saturday night. Starter Kagen Hopkins, the reigning Frontier League P...
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Bulls stick with patient approach in free agencyJul 03, 2016 7:00 pm - NBA free agents continued to fly off the shelf Saturday, even at inflated 2016 prices. The Bulls, though, stuck with their patient approach and didn't add any players. C...
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Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor, Nobel winner, dies at 87Jul 03, 2016 7:56 am - Elie Wiesel, whose acclaimed books chronicled his tortured memories of human cruelty in the Nazi concentration camps that killed his parents and younger sister, has die...
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Please don't judge me for writing about Ribfest againJul 02, 2016 2:00 pm - An inside look at the excruciating thought that goes into the making of this column: So, a few weeks ago, one of our marketing people asked if I could serve as a judge a...
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Editorial: Celebrate Independence Day by believing in AmericaJul 02, 2016 2:00 pm - Independence Day usually arrives with a sense of confidence, a mixture of patriotic pride and Yankee optimism. This year, the mood seems gloomier, the public attitude mo...
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