Real Estate
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Home Depot: hiring more than 80,000 workers for springFeb 09, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Home Depot Inc., the nation's largest home-improvement retailer, says it has started to hire more than 80,000 seasonal workers for the spring selling sea...
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Neighbors, executive airport leaders spar over studyFeb 09, 2015 4:30 am - Almost 30 years since his family sold one of the busiest airports in Illinois to Wheeling and Prospect Heights, Charlie Priester has returned to Chicago Executive Airpor...
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Brides, vendors to meet at 'Grace Meets Glamour' Feb. 22Feb 09, 2015 12:01 am - If he put a ring on it over the holidays, what's next? When you consider that engaged couples must mull over wedding and reception venues, whittle guest lists without ir...
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Lincolnshire Barnes & Noble could close this year, officials sayFeb 09, 2015 12:00 am - One of Lincolnshire's more prominent retailers could be replaced this year by a medical clinic, village officials said Monday. The owners of the Lincolnshire Commons sho...
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Chinese ex-mine tycoon executed for leading crime gangFeb 08, 2015 10:00 pm - BEIJING (AP) - A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang's members, a cour...
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Tile no longer just for bathrooms and backsplashesFeb 08, 2015 6:00 am - Tile is massively in vogue. Crack open any décor magazine and there will be countless images of striking kitchen backsplashes, multicolor mosaic showers or bright cerami...
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Technology downsizes the home officeFeb 08, 2015 6:00 am - These days, desks look more and more like simple tables. Any old one will do. Long gone are the days of Rolodex files, huge computer terminals and stacks of sorted slots...
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Arlington Hts. named one of the nation's safest citiesFeb 08, 2015 12:00 am - Arlington Heights is one of the safest cities in the nation, according to the latest crime statistics. Of 437 cities in the United States with populations more than 75,0...
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Source of persistant leak has yet to be foundFeb 07, 2015 11:00 pm - Q. I have had a leak above my living room for about 15 years (the house is a one-and-a-half-story ranch). The living room ceiling plaster is getting wet, and also the w...
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Coffee shop-looking cafe casinos taking hold in suburbsFeb 07, 2015 10:00 pm - It's the lunch-hour rush, and the food counter at one of Oakbrook Terrace's newest businesses offers deviled eggs, mini bratwursts and white zinfandel. Nobody is orderin...