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'Ugly Betty' tries to alter look to suit family hourApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - "Ugly Betty" has always been a major-network variation on the Spanish-language telenovela, equal parts soap opera and saucy satire. Yet when it returns today from the hi...
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Players' true colors only one shade of greenApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Bears players deserved credit for going green on Earth Day. Say what? Oh, they're not GOING green? They're going FOR the green? Not so admirable since they're all under ...
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Mission in Lake in the Hills grows up into churchApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - After 10 years as a church plant fed and watered by a Baptist mission agency, a Lake in the Hills congregation is thriving and bearing fruit. So now it's on its own. No ...
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Carpentersville's trustee-neighbor truce offers lesson for everyoneApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm so relieved Carpentersville Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski has worked things out with the black neighbors she offended when she compared their sons to monkeys. Hope...
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In the hunt and the kitchenApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - When Jack Madden was 11, he and his buddy, Gary, started cooking outdoors. The two were Cub Scouts, equipped with bikes, mess kits, canteens and enough money to buy a co...
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Today's families have much in common with founding fathersApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - They were the original newcomers to Naperville. Most of us today are newcomers to town. We are 21st-century suburban families, but we have a lot in common with the 19th-...
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Baking lemon meringue pie can be a sweet experienceApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - During a recent trip through southern Illinois my husband indulged my culinary curiosity. We stopped for dinner off the beaten path at a roadhouse bar and grill. Michael...
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If you park on the streets, be prepared to pay finesApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - This is an alert for all you Sugar Grove residents who have been ignoring a village ordinance that prohibits parking on the street between 2 and 6 a.m. If you remember a...
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Late filing of taxes is better than not filingApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- April 15 has passed and you didn't file your 2007 taxes. In fact, it's been several years since you've filed a return. You're scared. You're not sure if yo...
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A cut aboveApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Gloria Taylor of Buffalo Grove endured a winter filled with chemotherapy and radiation treatments, after being diagnosed with breast cancer last fall. But she received g...