Lifestyle Columns
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Good News Sunday: DuPage County schools see strong growth after COVID-19 learning lossNov 13, 2022 6:00 am - Good News Sunday: DuPage County schools see strong growth after COVID-19 learning loss
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Very few air ducts are made of asbestosNov 13, 2022 6:00 am - Q: The gas company man just checked our furnace and said the air ducts are made of asbestos. The house was built in the 1960s and I'm afraid that the old ducts may now b...
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Local focus: How chambers of commerce are enticing shoppers to suburban downtownsNov 13, 2022 12:00 am - At local chambers of commerce around the suburbs, the quest has begun: To convince people to shop with their feet instead of their thumbs, in quaint storefronts instead ...
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'Fall tulips' from Baheej continue to grow smilesNov 12, 2022 6:00 am - Have you ever seen “fall tulips?” Well, I have six stands of them in my front gardens. So special. They were especially pretty this year. They bloom in late September un...
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State keeps record of who is in charge of nonprofit condosNov 11, 2022 6:00 am - By David M. Bendoff Q: Our daughter, who owned a condominium in a Chicago suburb, recently passed away suddenly. I am her father, live out of state and am going through ...
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Who inspires your creativity? Play Together calls artists for new collaborationNov 11, 2022 5:00 am - Play Together is putting out the call for its third collaborative art project. The Chicago-based arts education organization partnered with Grammy-winning producer Nico...
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Showing off new boutique and wine bar, K. Hollis Jewelers hosts grand reopening Nov. 12Nov 11, 2022 5:00 am - It's quieter these days in the spot where Pal Joey's pizza ovens blazed on busy nights or Golden Corral's kitchen staff prepared food for buffet diners. Instead, busy je...
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Matt Derda & The High Watts trace band's evolution with new EP 'You Didn't Know?'Nov 10, 2022 3:00 pm - When Matt Derda & the High Watts first started putting together the songs on this weekend's EP release - "You Didn't Know?" - six or seven years ago, the band wasn't eve...
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Community members come out for annual Bike the Ridge ride in EvanstonNov 10, 2022 5:00 am - While Mother Nature dazzled us with her fall palette, Chicago area biking boasted its own collage of recent activity with community rides, trail development and an e-bik...
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Sound check: Pino Farina headlines Durty Nellie'sNov 10, 2022 5:00 am - Escape with Pino Farina Pino Farina's recent alt-rock single release "Microsun" plots a retreat to a simpler life away from the animosity of politics and the crazi...