Cook County Lifestyle
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Workshop offered to new home buyersMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Baird & Warner's Schaumburg office hosts a free home buyer workshop at 7 p.m. Thursday. First-time and move-up buyers will learn how to navigate the current market. Tric...
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Music and drinks flow at posh Schaumburg clubMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Privilege Ultralounge is one of those spots that makes you wonder if you made a wrong turn and wound up in Chicago. The posh club, which has changed little since coming ...
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Actress tunes into 'Musical'May 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Singer/actress Katie Siri has performed in a lot of musicals in her career and most of them are parodied in the hit off-Broadway musical, "The Musical of Musicals: The M...
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Keeping it real: All-natural soul rockMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - It's no secret these days that words like "organic" and "natural" fit nicely into our green-minded society, which prefers to reject such un-hip things as "synthetic" and...
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Students can show their appreciation to favorite teachers with special giftsMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - A "#1 Teacher" or "#1 Coach" coffee mug is an OK end-of-the-school-year gift, but … you can do so much better. Rather than roaming through big-box stores in search of so...
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Field Museum exhibit coincides with natureMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - The Field Museum opens a disastrous new exhibit Friday. Starring hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes and tornadoes, "Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters" seeks to ...
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Burgers still king of the grill, no matter the seasonsMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Memorial Day weekend generally marks the start of the summer grilling season, the time when men and women across the suburbs roll the grill out of storage, clean out the...
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Slow food fastMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - A heavy workload doesn't stop Nikki Golden from enjoying home-cooked dinners. She turns to her crockpot to turn out favorites like this mock lasagna. Nikki Golden doesn'...
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Customer involvement key to builder's successMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com Brian Murphy is vice president of operations for Town & Country Homes, the Lombard-based division of K. Hovnanian Builders. Years ago wh...
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Sealing with caulk keeps out yellow jacketsMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. Last summer, I had yellow jackets enter my home via a crack by the electrical box on the outside wall. I sprayed some hornet wasp killer into the opening. The nex...