All Stories from August 28, 2014 (Change date)
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Designing parents turn dorm rooms into dream spacesAug 28, 2014 6:00 am - So much stuff, so little style. The dream dorm room was just not happening. Five years ago, Karen and Amanda Zuckerman hit the malls and big-box stores to decorate Amand...
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13-year-old Texas fashion designer finds successAug 28, 2014 5:45 am - AUSTIN, Texas - At the age of 9, Isabella Rose Taylor - a painter since she was 3 - took a weeklong sewing class with an eye toward incorporating textiles into her artwo...
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Orange-Vanilla Ice Cream Pie With Orange Whipped CreamAug 28, 2014 5:45 am - 1 pint vanilla ice cream 1½ cups orange sherbet 1 cup orange soda 1 prepared graham cracker pie shell 1½ cups heavy cream 1 teaspoon orange extract 1 tablespoon powdered...
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Classic frozen pop from childhood remade as a pieAug 28, 2014 5:45 am - Let's get one thing clear - I am not proud of this recipe. And if it weren't so ridiculously good, I'd be too humiliated to share it. But it is and so I am... It all cam...
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Billy Corgan goes solo acoustic for his Ravinia debutAug 28, 2014 5:45 am - Ravinia might not be the most incongruous place Billy Corgan has ever played. That gig would most likely be the appearance of the Smashing Pumpkins' leader on the final ...
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Gire: 'Yves Saint Laurent' not as inspirational as it should beAug 28, 2014 5:30 am - If you'll excuse the wording, Jalil Lespert's bio-drama “Yves Saint Laurent” is ill-suited to tell the story of the French fashion wunderkind who, at 21, took over Chris...
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DuPage buys building for flood control effortAug 28, 2014 5:30 am - DuPage County is preparing for the next step in its ongoing work to alleviate flooding in Warrenville. County board members this week approved the purchase of a commerci...
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It's Mr. Rodgers' neighborhood once againAug 28, 2014 5:30 am - “Prosecutor, will you read the charges?” “Certainly, your honor. We charge that supposed fantasy football ‘expert' John Dietz is destroying his readers' chances of a suc...
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Underground found-footage horror tale should get lostAug 28, 2014 5:30 am - “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” is the inscription uncovered by a gang of twenty-something treasure hunters in the catacomb-hopping horror flick, “As Above, So Be...
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Kane County closing in on balanced budget for 2015Aug 28, 2014 5:30 am - Less than one month after learning the 2015 budget forecast includes a $2 million deficit, Kane County officials have slashed the shortfall in half. Now they have about...