Lifestyle Columns
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Sound check: Set sail with The Mild West cruise shows on the Chicago RiverOct 07, 2020 6:00 am - On deck with The Mild West The warm days of summer are slipping away, but you're not out of opportunities for a boat party just yet. Chicago rock band The Mild West...
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Hike near home turns into mission to see every DuPage County forest preserveOct 06, 2020 5:30 am - The pandemic wiped out the traveling she does as district manager for Lego and temporarily closed the Zanies Comedy Clubs where he works booking comics and doing publici...
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Should sellers hire their own home inspector?Oct 04, 2020 7:00 am - Q: I built my home 30 years ago and have been the only occupant. I've maintained it well, replacing the air conditioning, water heater and appliances as needed. Now that...
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Cleaning the fireplace chimneyOct 03, 2020 6:00 am - Q: I use my efficient wood-burning fireplace often. The chimney has never been cleaned and the exterior is weathered. Is having it cleaned really important and what task...
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With no family reunion this year, efforts needed to stay in touchOct 03, 2020 6:00 am - Many families have an annual family reunion - or hold one every few years. We do, and we hold the annual gathering in New Hampshire. It is always great fun. It's actuall...
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Constable: Italian immigrant, U.S. Army veteran writes love story at age 87Oct 03, 2020 1:00 am - Even before he watched American soldiers drive the Nazis from his Italian village, Rocco Blasi dreamed of living in the United States. "It was something I wanted so badl...
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Facts and folklore about marshy cattailsOct 02, 2020 6:00 am - When it comes to cattails, I thought I had the subject pretty well covered. I had led many field trips to cattail marshes and conducted wetland seminars on the subject. ...
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How Steel Beam Theatre in St. Charles is weathering the pandemicOct 02, 2020 6:00 am - Steel Beam Theatre knows a thing or two about overcoming challenges. The downtown St. Charles theater had to celebrate its 20th anniversary last week without any hoopla ...
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Lovably quirky father-daughter dynamic drives comedy 'On the Rocks'Oct 01, 2020 6:00 am - “On the Rocks” - ★ ★ ★ “Don't you act normal around any woman?” an exasperated Laura asks her scoundrel senior citizen father, Felix. No, he doesn't. He can't. Fel...
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'Curse of Audrey Earnshaw' drenches coming-of-rage horror tale in dreadOct 01, 2020 6:00 am - “The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw” - ★ ★ ★ Atmospheric horror tales such as Thomas Robert Lee's “The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw” give us the willies by pushing us into a...