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Why do borrowers pay for mortgage insurance?Feb 25, 2017 5:00 am - Last week I published an article on how home mortgage borrowers who were required to purchase mortgage insurance could earn a high rate of return by paying it off - with...
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Constable: Local Trumps cope with name's baggageFeb 25, 2017 12:00 am - When Jane Kenehan married in 1970 and took her husband's unusual last name, she often had to spell it for people: T-R-U-M-P. When John and Jane Trump were expecting thei...
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Grammar Moses: Is this headline different than what you'd write?Feb 25, 2017 12:00 am - Don Meseth of Des Plaines asked a question I hear often: "How does one use 'from' and 'than'? Example: 'Black is different from white' ... or 'black is different than wh...
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Rozner: MLB doesn't need change for sake of itFeb 25, 2017 12:00 am - Change is always good when change is for the good, especially the greater good. But change for the sake of change is seldom good. That seems to be where Rob Manfred is r...
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Don't let closing costs surprise youFeb 24, 2017 5:00 am - WASHINGTON - Everyone knows that financing and closing on a home purchase can be complicated. Which is why more than a year ago the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...
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Love and real estate can complicate relationshipsFeb 24, 2017 5:00 am - Cupid can draw his bow all he wants, but his arrow can't pierce basic real estate laws. Q. I have a great credit score, but my fiance's score is pretty bad because he wa...
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Who gets an Oscar? Dann Gire has some ideasFeb 24, 2017 5:00 am - The ABCs of Oscar I'll be discussing the 89th Academy Awards live on ABC 7's morning news during the 8 a.m. hour Sunday, Feb. 26. Be sure to tune in. And, by the way, yo...
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How law-and-order suburban sheriff became a deaconFeb 24, 2017 4:40 am - Former Kane County Sheriff Ken Ramsey is a tough guy. Fighting in the Vietnam War, serving as a firefighter, and working 35 years in law enforcement, Ramsey saw violence...
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Finally time to say good-bye to CutlerFeb 24, 2017 4:19 am - Well, it's finally official: The Bears do not want to ask Jay Cutler to return to Lake Forest and are interested in trading him. What took so long? I'll wager that as la...
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The lessons veterans teachFeb 24, 2017 12:00 am - Bob Michel, who died last week at 93, was elected to Congress from his hometown of Peoria in 1956 and served for 38 years. As a young infantryman he had landed at Norman...