All Stories from May 27, 2012 (Change date)
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On the road: New Adler space showMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Chicago Warm welcome to the universe The Adler Planetarium unveils a new immersive space experience called “Welcome to the Universe” in the Grainger Sky Theater. T...
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Editorial: Put the skids on massive gambling expansionMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Illinois faces budget problems the likes of which we’ve never seen. We have the worst pension funding gap in the nation, a multibillion-dollar backlog of unpaid bills an...
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Europe still remembers America’s fallenMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - On the eve of last year’s Memorial Day, I traveled to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten to pay my respects to my great-uncle from Chicago, Anton Dietzen, wh...
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Let residents vote on pension shiftMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - So Gov. Quinn and Boss Madigan want to dump the cost of school pensions onto homeowners. These guys are going to tax people right out of their own homes if this isn’t st...
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Barbaric customs still aboundMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - After reading your article about the practice of catching sharks, slicing off their fins for an expensive disgusting soup, and throwing the helpless animal back into the...
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Time to oppose ‘War Against Women’May 27, 2012 5:00 am - Time to oppose ‘War Against Women’ I write this on behalf of the countless women and men whose lives have been devastated by abortion. I write this on behalf of the...
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Why Bain questions matterMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Who are the dastardly enemies of free enterprise who decided to make an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital? Er, those would be his fel...
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Try to eliminate ice dams caused by heat lossMay 27, 2012 3:00 am - Q. I need to replace the gutters on the new addition to my house. The gutters broke on each side of the addition due to heavy ice dams. My roof often develops large ice ...
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Are these wooden toys worth anything?May 27, 2012 2:35 am - Q. A family member who was a carpenter made these toys sometime during the late 19th century to circa 1900. They were passed to me and I was wondering if they have any v...
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Backyard makeover Week 4: Bowes Bend backyard bluesMay 27, 2012 1:00 am - My boys were home from college for spring break when I snapped this shot of our pitiful back yard. When we bought this home three years ago, we immediately tore down the...