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More questions arise on marijuana issuesJul 20, 2019 7:00 am - Q. Given the new Illinois law that will legalize the recreational use of marijuana, can the board of our condominium prohibit smoking in the individual units by way of a...
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Rant about living in a staged houseJul 20, 2019 6:00 am - Q. As a faithful reader of your column and previous real estate agent, I thought I understood how the process would go when we put our house on the market this June. Lit...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Tet and My Lai. Amid turmoil, moon landing united a nation.Jul 20, 2019 5:00 am - Still reeling from the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the violent Democratic convention in Chicago, racial struggles, riots, Cold W...
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'Space exploration is hard. We make it look easy,' says longtime NASA director from SchaumburgJul 20, 2019 5:00 am - With her family having just moved to Schaumburg in the summer of 1969, 3½-year-old Cathy Larson watched the moon landing on a black-and-white television in the new famil...
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$300 million quickly for community colleges from state capital program: Is it for the right projects?Jul 20, 2019 1:00 am - Billions of dollars are earmarked for dozens of community college campus projects in Illinois' capital improvement budget despite a more than 21% statewide drop in enrol...
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Facts Matter: President attributes fake quote to Rep. OmarJul 20, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump last week used Twitter to take aim at a group of liberal Democrats, including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, M...
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Grammar Moses: Look both ways, and mind the gap in logicJul 20, 2019 1:00 am - While waiting for his train at the Arlington Heights station recently, Mark Cieslak took note of an electronic message board. It's a good thing he has strong critical-th...
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Lombard astronaut's first flight: a pretend trip to moonJul 20, 2019 1:00 am - Astronaut Dan Tani, who grew up in Lombard, was 8 years old when NASA put a man on the moon 50 years ago. “I was doing what everybody else was doing,” remembers Tani, w...
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DuPage jail's welding program yields first inmates graduating with 'hope and purpose'Jul 19, 2019 5:33 am - How often do you see a sheriff hugging jail inmates? It happened Wednesday at the DuPage County jail as Sheriff Jim Mendrick congratulated the first graduates of a new a...
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Neither heat, rain, cold nor drought can stop local sweet corn cropJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - In this dickens of a summer, the worst of times has given us a tale of too much sour weather for sweet corn at Wiltse's Farm Produce in Maple Park: Too wet. Too cold. To...