Bloomingdale Lifestyle
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Addison: Residents set for lifeAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Addison, one of the most affordable and diverse communities in DuPage County, is home to many third- and fourth-generation residents who want to live near their families...
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Giving Garden benefits from yield of 200 tomato plantsAug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Most people have all they can do to manage a few tomato plants in their backyard. Then there's Nancy Hake. She laughs in the face of a challenge. Or, rather, 200 challen...
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Earn a gold medal for your party decorAug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - The Olympic Games - opening Friday in Beijing - are one of the world's great spectacles, so how do you measure up when you're throwing a party where your friends can wat...
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Tips on creating floral dramaAug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Flower arrangements these days are simple, elegant and dramatic, said Donna Lochner, who creates them for M & M The Special Events Company. "You want it to be simple but...
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Giving Garden efforts beginning to take rootJul 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Tucked away in a vacant lot surrounded by industrial parks, a bevy of tomatoes and zucchinis are starting to ripen. The food, and the 240-square-foot garden where it's g...
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Farms show off suburbs' agricultural rootsJul 12, 2008 11:00 pm - If there's one thing Mother Nature taught us this year, it's that summer is fleeting. Now's the time to make the most of it, meshing an afternoon outdoors with some qual...
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Improve your yard with tips from pros turned authorsJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - George Kay has strong opinions about landscape design. Walkways should turn at 90-degree angles, not curve. Do you have curvy rooms inside your house? The views from ins...
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One bowl or many, get your stir-fry fill at Genghis GrillJul 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Make no mistake: Genghis Grill in Wheaton doesn't do much to separate itself from the other build-your-own stir-fry chains. So we headed to this one, we admit, with trep...
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Tropical parties hot in the suburbsJul 08, 2008 11:00 pm - High gas prices. A sluggish economy. And all those weddings, graduation parties, and family barbecues that you just can't ditch. Face it, right now it's tough to simply ...
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Director films debut on familiar turfJun 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Steve Conrad knows exactly why he wrote and directed the Chicago-set comedy "The Promotion." "I wanted to do a movie where a person's dreams don't come true, because I t...