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Home sales require paperworkMar 30, 2019 6:00 am - Q. Is it true all real estate sales contracts have to be in writing? What if no broker is involved? A. Yes, the transfer of real estate requires written contracts. In th...
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How waves of immigrants are overwhelming asylum processMar 30, 2019 1:00 am - Before 2013, about one of every 100 immigrants arriving at our borders asked for asylum. Now, it's one out of every 10. The glut of immigrants at our southern border has...
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Constable: How 7,000-mile trek through the Americas leads West African asylum-seeker to the suburbsMar 30, 2019 1:00 am - By Burt Constable Watching dramatic scenes of immigrants in a caravan moving toward the United States-Mexico border, this 20-year-old resident of the Northwest suburbs k...
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Rozner: How PGA pro makes name for himselfMar 30, 2019 1:00 am - When they weren't getting his name wrong a few weeks ago, the NBC announcers incessantly referred to Keith Mitchell as the 162nd-ranked player in the world. As if it wer...
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Facts Matter: Breaking news is not media manipulationMar 30, 2019 1:00 am - A Facebook post earlier this month shows two side-by-side copies of The Wall Street Journal with very different headlines and the claim, "Same paper, same dates, differe...
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Homebuyers with heavy debt might find it tougher to get a mortgageMar 29, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - First-time and move-up homebuyers with heavy debt loads, low credit scores and small down payments face a daunting new mortgage hurdle: The Federal Housing ...
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He didn't kill anyone, so why does a court say Round Lake man belongs locked up for murder?Mar 29, 2019 5:30 am - Jose Rebollar-Vergara didn't kill anyone. He didn't even know a shooting was about to happen when he and a fellow gang member met up with a teen they mistook for a rival...
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Lent is the annual invitation to focus on spiritual mattersMar 29, 2019 1:00 am - A friend - reacting to the apparent thinness of Robert Mueller's case against the president - told me: "This year, I'm giving up hope for Lent." I, in turn, am giving up...
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Requiem for an investigationMar 29, 2019 1:00 am - Cathartic, it was not. The relentlessly plodding Mueller report finally ended after a 22-month whodunit that climaxed to the sound of pffft. There is no evidence of col...
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Feder: Will CBS 2 get out of last place in the morning?Mar 29, 2019 1:00 am - Morning news ratings can't get much worse for CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, which ended another month dead last in the Nielsens from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday, Ro...