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New owners, modern touches keep historic homes vitalJun 18, 2016 7:00 am - Historic preservation groups provide a great service to their communities in keeping historic structures and homes in the forefront and, in many cases, saving them from ...
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Weigh your options to treat depression during pregnancyJun 18, 2016 6:55 am - Q: I have been on SSRI medicines for depression for five years. I'm trying to get pregnant, and I hear that SSRIs might be dangerous. What do I need to know? A: I love t...
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What to do when your mortgage is paid offJun 18, 2016 5:00 am - Q. I am a senior citizen, and I still live in the house my husband and I bought more than 30 years ago. A few months ago I made the last payment on the mortgage. The ban...
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Board may temporarily close pool for insurance issuesJun 18, 2016 5:00 am - Q. We own a condominium unit in the suburbs that has various amenities, such as tennis courts, a party room, an exercise room and a swimming pool. As the result of a lar...
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Sifting through the mortgage document delugeJun 18, 2016 4:00 am - Editor's note: This is the third column in a four-part series appearing in HomesSaturday. In first two parts of this series, I explained how the large number of document...
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Constable: Orlando shooting shows power of final words to loved onesJun 18, 2016 1:00 am - Amid the barrage of bullets, pools of blood and screams of horror, dozens of text messages made their way safely out of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando early last Sunday....
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Rozner: Teravainen ran out of time with BlackhawksJun 18, 2016 1:00 am - When the Blackhawks drafted Teuvo Teravainen as a 17-year-old, GM Stan Bowman had visions of a highly-skilled, second-line center dancing in his head. He could see the f...
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Barrington H.S. grad earns theater alumni group awardJun 18, 2016 1:00 am - Recent Barrington High School graduate Lauren P. Messemer was this year's recipient of the Richard C. Johnson Memorial Galfer Award. Presented by the Barrington High Sch...
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Why Chicago Bears fans should ignore the minicamp hypeJun 17, 2016 5:19 am - The Chicago Bears finished their three-day minicamp in Lake Forest on Thursday, and I read a headline this week about how quarterback Jay Cutler loves the way the defens...
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Gas pipe flagged by home inspectorJun 17, 2016 5:00 am - Q. We bought our home about 25 years ago. At the time, it was all-electric. After a few years, I installed a propane tank in the yard and ran about 100 feet of buried ga...