Columns
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What if the Kane County Fairgrounds had moved to a different spot?Jun 11, 2016 7:00 am - How about playing a game of "What If?" What if the Kane County Fairgrounds had moved to Route 47 north of Lily Lake in the early 1990s, as its board had contemplated? Th...
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Diet can help prevent kidney stonesJun 11, 2016 6:55 am - Q: I recently passed a kidney stone, and it was really painful. My doctor gave me medicine. Is there anything else I can do to prevent another one? A: Besides the medici...
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Carbon buildup in the good-old daysJun 11, 2016 5:01 am - By Doug McAllister More from a reader on "gas direct injection" engines. Q. "Back in the day" (1970s), when I was in the auto repair business, the industry had issues wi...
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Some mortgage closing documents require less scrutinyJun 11, 2016 5:00 am - Editor's note: This is the second column in a four-part series that began last week and will continue weekly in HomesSaturday. Everyone who has ever closed a real estate...
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Unhappy wife could be abusive, but what about depression?Jun 11, 2016 5:00 am - Q. When my wife and I got engaged 17 years ago, she was a healthy, cheerful, gainfully employed young lady. Two months after the engagement she stopped working entirely ...
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Investor offers for out-of-state propertyJun 11, 2016 5:00 am - Q. Our deceased parents left us a home in a state in which we no longer live. We have no intention of returning there. We renovated the house out of respect for our pare...
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Minutes should be available to owners in a timely fashionJun 11, 2016 4:00 am - Q. My townhouse association has a procedure for the approval of monthly board meeting minutes that takes two months. Basically, the previous month's meeting minutes are ...
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Ziehm: Rust-Oleum is Teater's to loseJun 11, 2016 1:01 am - The $600,000 Rust-Oleum Championship is Josh Teater's to lose on Sunday. There's no doubt about that. But he'd better look out for his surprise playing partner. Dan Wolt...
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Rozner: These Web.com golfers are the real dealJun 11, 2016 1:00 am - When Brady Schnell teed off Thursday, just past 7 o'clock on an unusually chilly June morning at Ivanhoe Club, the gallery at No. 10 consisted of a marshal, a reporter, ...
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Is this the worst NBA postseason ever?Jun 10, 2016 5:30 am - The NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers have become as predictable as the earlier rounds of the playoffs. The home teams continue t...