McHenry County Lifestyle
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Kirk Homes offers buyers 'Get Movin' incentivesMay 23, 2008 11:00 pm - This weekend Kirk Homes offers it Get Movin' incentives at Kirk communities throughout the area. Buyers can take advantage of a buy-down mortgage program, with 3 percent...
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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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Touring the main priority of local pop bandMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - I want to be friends with Nick Vombrack. Not just because the Crystal Lake-based drummer tends to tell writers that his band, Dr. Manhattan, met and formed on a pirate s...
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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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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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Woodstock's Sonatas added to quaint townMay 16, 2008 11:00 pm - In playing Punxsutawney, Pa., in the Hollywood comedy "Groundhog Day," Woodstock didn't have to act at all. It really was the quaint little Victorian village with small ...
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Newly built ranches are a rare findMay 16, 2008 11:00 pm - "These homes are beautiful, but do you have any ranch models to show?" asked the 20-something couple. "I'm looking for the convenience of a single-story home. What do y...
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Love over lunchMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Those 60 minutes are precious. In between e-mails, meetings, memos and clients stands that one hour devoted entirely to you during the workweek: lunch. Of course you cou...
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Flowers for Dorian on the riseMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - For proof that independent bands can crack mainstream barriers sans record labels, look no further than Lake Zurich, home of power-pop up-and-comers Flowers for Dorian. ...
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Get a start on fest season this weekendMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Can't wait for festival season? Here are a few minifests taking place this weekend to tide you over: Vernon Hills Springfest: 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Metra stat...