Columns
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Lake Zurich woman's charity gives voice to those with rare diseasesOct 27, 2018 1:00 am - With her Harmony 4 Hope charity, Lake Zurich's Kerry Hughes gives people with rare diseases more than a voice. "It's such an empowering experience in an otherwise powerl...
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China is resilient and so are youOct 26, 2018 11:00 pm - Fine china is actually quite tough; it does not chip or break easily. It is made to be seen, enjoyed, and appreciated. It is resilient, and so are you. A lot of china c...
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Which is better at valuing your home - you or a computer program?Oct 26, 2018 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Do you have a pretty good idea of what your house is worth? Could you estimate within, say, 5 percent of what it's likely to sell for? If so, would that mak...
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Craft Urban owner reflects on first year in GenevaOct 26, 2018 6:00 am - One of my first columns of 2018 sort of monitored the first two months of business for Craft Urban on James Street in Geneva. It was really cold during that time period,...
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Buyer worried about radon gas in homeOct 26, 2018 6:00 am - Q. After buying my home, I had new carpets installed. When the old carpets were removed, I noticed many small cracks in the concrete slab floor. I called my home inspect...
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Robert Forster talks acting on his first Chicago film in 50 yearsOct 26, 2018 5:33 am - Fifty years ago, Robert Forster wrote a page of Chicago's cinematic history as a journalist in Haskell Wexler's classic 1968 Democratic National Convention drama "Medium...
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How police are using 'ghost cars' to catch traffic violatorsOct 26, 2018 5:00 am - Just in time for Halloween, here's a ghost story. These ghosts haunt many suburban roadways, appearing without warning seemingly out of nowhere, but the only people they...
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Suburban grandparents' battle with Alzheimer's inspires filmmaker's 'What They Had'Oct 26, 2018 5:00 am - While continually revising the screenplay to her first feature film “What They Had,” former Hinsdale resident Elizabeth Chomko kept hearing the words of a college profes...
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U.S. security rooted in help for neighborsOct 26, 2018 1:00 am - From Honduras and Guatemala they came. Marching and staggering through the rain and heat and sometimes swimming across the tropical rivers of southern Mexico. Faces stoi...
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Feder: Former Daily Herald reporter named Chicago Reporter editor-in-chief, publisherOct 26, 2018 1:00 am - Fernando Diaz, a former reporter at the Daily Herald and former managing editor of the Spanish-language daily Hoy Chicago, has been named editor-in-chief and publisher o...