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Is needy girlfriend worth the price?Sep 03, 2017 6:00 am - Carolyn Hax is away. The following are from 2003. Q. My girlfriend and I have had an up-and-down relationship for four years, complete with several breakups. We keep get...
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Dragons don't just sprout up in the desertSep 03, 2017 1:00 am - By Ruben Navarrette Jr. Now that President Trump has pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, many Latinos are feeling enraged. And a lot of...
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Women's watch: No playoff run for Sky, but teamwork showedSep 03, 2017 1:00 am - The personalities, and the fast friendships. That's what second-year Chicago Sky forward Kahleah Copper is going to miss now that the team's season has officially come t...
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Heroic fundraising efforts just a suburban normSep 02, 2017 2:00 pm - I was trolling through our online archives when I came across the first-person, Straight from the Source essay by Jean Wescher of Carol Stream. She's the 34-year-old wif...
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Court case supports collection of unpaid feesSep 02, 2017 6:00 am - My Aug. 26 column "teased" that I would address in a future column the circumstances under which the purchaser of a foreclosure condominium at a judicial sale may be res...
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Public policy should encourage the building of home equitySep 02, 2017 5:00 am - Policies directed toward encouraging homeownership by increasing the affordability of mortgages usually reduce the rate at which borrowers build equity in their homes. T...
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Rozner: White Sox won't get ahead of themselvesSep 02, 2017 1:00 am - It was only about seven weeks ago that Rick Hahn was taking a beating for the failed White Sox rebuild. The general manager blew it with Jose Quintana, said the skeptics...
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Constable: Chorale groups keep seniors in tuneSep 02, 2017 1:00 am - As the artistic director and CEO of Encore Illinois, Jonathan Miller has grown the group created in early 2016 to seven choruses with 400 singers across the suburbs and ...
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Bathroom fan could blow up sale of townhouseSep 01, 2017 6:00 am - Q. We are currently selling our townhouse, and the homeowners association board is preventing the escrow from closing. Here's what's happening: The association is respon...
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Appraisal-free home sales draw mixed reviewsSep 01, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Would you welcome the option to buy a house but not have to pay hundreds of dollars for an appraisal? Are you kidding? Sign me up, you might say. Who doesn'...