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Should patio owners pay for decks?Jul 13, 2019 7:00 am - Q. We are a common interest community association of more than 50 townhouse units. Last year the board approved a special assessment to cover the reserve shortfall for t...
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Tringale, Landry tied for JDC lead, but it's still anyone's gameJul 13, 2019 1:01 am - SILVIS, Ill. - The Las Vegas odds-makers didn't believe experience mattered much when they sized up the John Deere Classic field earlier this week. The top five betting ...
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Why you might pay more to buy a car in Illinois: a trade-in tax credit capJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - Car buyers are on the hook for an estimated $40 million extra in sales taxes thanks to an Illinois law starting next year that will cap trade-in tax credits for most mot...
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Facts Matter: Reagan quote retweet by Trump is fakeJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump last week retweeted a photo of himself and former President Ronald Reagan shaking hands during a 1987 event at the White House. The post included ...
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Grammar Moses: Writing this column through a veil of tearsJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - I wrote a few years ago about how, as a child, I misinterpreted song lyrics in amusing ways. I'd sing "Canada Dry" to the Buckinghams' "Kind of a Drag," because that's w...
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'We did that, that boot print,' says Rolling Meadows designer of Apollo 11 spacesuitsJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - This was no simple Sunday night dinner party. “We were immersed,” remembers Bob Davidson, a NASA engineer who helped design the spacesuits Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin...
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Rozner: Golf's new young guns flexing their muscle at John DeereJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - SILVIS, Ill. - The John Deere offers a classic opportunity, perhaps a week unlike any other on the PGA Tour schedule. Always the North American event the week before the...
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Timing put Hoffman Estates engineer on Apollo teamJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - A decade in the making, the Apollo 11 mission to land men on the moon in 1969 required precision timing. That all started in the early '60s with the central timing equip...
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Armstrong's best friend couldn't bear to watch moon landing: 'I knew it was a high-risk situation'Jul 13, 2019 1:00 am - Austin "Jim" Bailey Jr.'s best friend, the pilot he helped train, was about to use the equipment Bailey helped design to do something historic on live television. "You'v...
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Jackson Outdoors: A great way to spend an afternoonJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - I have been hammering the state tourism bureau for more than two decades about including our state's world-class fishing. It's readily available either on Lake Michigan ...