All Stories from October 19, 2012 (Change date)
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Designer weaves tale of real-life Chicago killer into Rosemont haunted houseOct 19, 2012 6:00 am - Mark Kaschube is not a fan of the “every room is different” kind of haunted house. That's not to say that the rooms in Screams in the Park, the Rosemont spook house he d...
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A tip (or two) from Chicago's barbecue playbookOct 19, 2012 6:00 am - Chicago restaurant-goers feast at some of the world's finest tables. Alinea. Everest. NoMi. But on a particular August day, the front of a 14-year-old Toyota Camry is th...
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Book notes: Meet Uggie from 'The Artist'Oct 19, 2012 6:00 am - Ÿ Author Matthew Cody, winner of the 2012 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award, reads from and signs copies of his new novel, “Super,” at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at Th...
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'Fable: The Journey' casts Kinect magicOct 19, 2012 6:00 am - When the Kinect system was unleashed two years ago for the Xbox 360, there were promises that the camera-based, gesture-detecting gadget could turn users' bodies into pa...
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'The Girl' tells Tippi Hedron's side of 'The Birds'Oct 19, 2012 6:00 am - When Alfred Hitchcock cast unknown actress Tippi Hedren as the star of his horror film "The Birds," she couldn't believe her good fortune. As work on the film proceeded,...
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007 not stirred by 3-D, no plans for 3-D BondOct 19, 2012 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Celebrating his 50th birthday, James Bond has been learning some new tricks — but 3-D isn't one of them. Producers of the spy franchise say they have no inte...
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What’s new on stageOct 19, 2012 5:59 am - Ÿ Theatre-Hikes temporarily leaves Lisle’s Morton Arboretum to perform its Halloween show “The Werewolf’s Curse: or Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19...
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Suburban homes being fraudulently rentedOct 19, 2012 5:36 am - WASHINGTON — No one wants to take the blame for the housing bust in this political season, but scammers and rip-off artists in the hundreds are working overtime to sipho...
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Kane coroner hopefuls differ in experience, want to rebuild trustOct 19, 2012 5:30 am - On Nov. 6, voters will elect the first new Kane County Coroner in 12 years. Both Republican Rob Russell and Democrat Tao Martinez agree that trust and integrity must be...
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Grayslake business owners fed up with rising school taxesOct 19, 2012 5:30 am - Concerns about escalating real estate taxes prompted a coalition of Grayslake business owners to ask officials at a local school district to work to end the trend. Grays...