Lifestyle Columns
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Bendoff: Residents cry foul when garbage day becomes garbage weekSep 26, 2022 6:00 am - By David Bendoff Q. I live in a single-family homes common interest community association. Our declaration of covenants concerns garbage. The declaration states with spe...
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Suburban Punjabi festival returns after pandemic hiatusSep 26, 2022 5:30 am - A long-running suburban Punjabi cultural festival resumed earlier this month after a two-year pandemic hiatus. More than 400 Sikh community members from across the Nort...
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Good News Sunday: 3:36 a.m. phone call from president announces release of brother held hostage in AfghanistanSep 25, 2022 7:30 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Charlene Cakora devoted "every day" of t...
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Home inspection report was poorly writtenSep 25, 2022 7:00 am - Q: The home inspector we hired seemed to do a very thorough job of finding defects, but his written report was so poorly written that we began to doubt the quality of th...
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Scotch eggs and the benefits of trying something differentSep 24, 2022 6:00 am - Have you ever seen a Scotch egg? Well, I hadn't until fairly recently. And have you ever eaten one? I have. Sort of by accident. I was running some errands up in Barring...
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'One in a million': Geneva High alum, volleyball player makes comeback from rare neurological disorderSep 23, 2022 6:00 am - In late May, Grace Hinchman was thinking about her upcoming summer break, while also contemplating the eventual start of her junior year at Loyola University in the fall...
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Bendoff: Why a board attorney can't answer unit owners' questionsSep 23, 2022 5:00 am - By David Bendoff Q. The association's attorney attended a board meeting that was open to the owners. One of the purposes of the meeting was to adopt a special assessment...
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15 shows for fall: Classic tuners, new commissions, ever-resonant dramas among this season's theater highlightsSep 22, 2022 7:30 am - Musicals showcasing determined women; an operatic take on a beloved Broadway tuner; the stage adaptation of a popular film romance; dramas examining racism and the legac...
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Neighbors in the news: Saint Mary of the Lake seminary names new provostSep 22, 2022 6:00 am - • Dr. Brian Schmisek was appointed provost at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. Dr. Schmisek, who has more than 25 years of educational and p...
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Eye-popping social thriller 'Don't Worry Darling' has everything going for it - except a compelling screenplaySep 22, 2022 6:00 am - “Don't Worry Darling” - ★ ★ Let's be charitable to Olivia Wilde's ambitious, carefully crafted (and already critically skewered) second directorial project, the enigmat...