Columns
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Think carefully about holding out for 'right' buyerApr 22, 2017 6:00 am - Q. I was a newspaper copy editor for nearly 20 years, and I faithfully edited your column for my paper. But even after all those years of reading your column each week, ...
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Grammar Moses: Are you and your spouse close enough to take a singular verb?Apr 22, 2017 1:00 am - An anonymous reader from downstate Marion had a seemingly simple pair of questions: "Would you say, 'The couple has - or have - three children?' And 'The couple has - or...
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Constable: Quakers still have friends in suburbsApr 22, 2017 1:00 am - Until this week, here is what I knew about Quakers: 1. That guy on the oatmeal container is a Quaker. 2. Quakers often get confused with Shakers, the furniture folks. Wi...
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Rozner: Blackhawks' failure to launch will result in changeApr 22, 2017 1:00 am - The Blackhawks held a morning wake at the UC Saturday. It wasn't the event they had planned for the day of Game 5, but a postseason postmortem was all that was left afte...
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Imrem: The legend of Rondo continues to growApr 21, 2017 5:01 pm - The legend of Rajon Rondo grew and grew and grew Friday. And then grew some more during the Bulls 104-87 loss to the Celtics in Game 3 of their NBA playoff series. Odd a...
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Chicago bucking the trend in condo, home valuesApr 21, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - It's a real estate question that historically has had an easy answer: Do single-family detached homes appreciate in value faster than condominiums? The stan...
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First master-planned community dates back to 16th centuryApr 21, 2017 6:00 am - A small seaside town in Florida, founded in 1565, still influences the way that nearly every American city is configured today. Q. My brother lives in St. Augustine, Flo...
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'Bates Motel' will go out on topApr 21, 2017 6:00 am - It doesn't have Bernard Herrmann's piercing violins or Alfred Hitchcock's mastery of the camera, but A&E's television series based upon "Psycho" has carved out its own p...
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No ties found yet between Schaumburg murder, Rolling Meadows attacksApr 21, 2017 5:00 am - The horrific sexual assault and killing of Tiffany Thrasher by an intruder over the weekend got us thinking about the similarities between the crime and a pair of home i...
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O'Reilly's Ouster Is No Victory for WomenApr 21, 2017 1:00 am - Bill O'Reilly is finally out at Fox. But let's not kid ourselves about the reason. Last summer, 21st Century Fox and the Murdoch family that controls it forced out Fox N...