All Stories from April 10, 2020 (Change date)
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Book review: Marie Kondo has a new book on tidying up at the office. Her tips work at the home office, too.Apr 10, 2020 6:00 am - "Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life" by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein; Little, Brown Spark; 320 pages The joy of cleaning at work is that,...
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Rugged school walks as a youth? Let Fitbit provide the dataApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - Because taking walks remains one of the few things we can still do during the coronavirus outbreak, it was important to take one that could prove a point. I took this pa...
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Family does drive-by parade for Vernon Hills WWII vet's birthdayApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - Lawrence "Larry" Gregory's family planned a big party for the World War II veteran, who fought in the battle for Okinawa, the last campaign of the war, in which 49,000 A...
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Ron Onesti: How to get through thisApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - If you have read this column for a while now, I am sure you have seen my many references of the "power of music." Now, more than ever, it is important we really "unleash...
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Wizard World takes its convention celebrities online during pandemicApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - An earlier-than-usual start date this year meant that C2E2, the long-running pop culture convention at Chicago's McCormick Place, just beat the wave of event cancellatio...
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10 movies shot in the suburbs - including, of course, 'Contagion'Apr 10, 2020 6:00 am - These movies hit close to home. A number of popular films have been made in the suburbs over the years, and they're great to stream while you're hunkered down during the...
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Concerts from your couch: Performances you can livestreamApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - Looking for livestream concerts? • Every day just in time for lunch break, Chicago's Metro posts a classic concert from the venue on its Facebook page (facebook.com/Met...
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The weird histories of forks and other household goodsApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - Right now, the United States is contemplating the temporary loss of toilet paper (which has only been on a cardboard roll as we know it since 1890, according to Charmin)...
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Pandemic causes panic for homebuyers and rentersApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - Q. I'm sure you are getting many questions about this, but my husband and I signed a contract to purchase our first house in early March. Since then, both of our salarie...
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Leslie Goddard has made a career of portraying historical womenApr 10, 2020 6:00 am - Leslie Goddard is in a self-imposed isolation to help stem the spread of coronavirus. The Darien-based historian/performer/author finds herself on an "unintended vacatio...