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Divide your perennials when ground is dry

By Tim Johnson Chicago Botanic Garden
Apr 24, 2022 7:00 am - Most perennials are best divided in spring, when they are showing a couple inches of growth. When dividing a plant, choose the strongest looking parts of the plant and d...
Art of the dream home: Building team creates masterful design on 4.5 acres in Wheaton

By Jean Murphy
Apr 24, 2022 7:00 am - Oak Park native Laura Christensen and her husband, Mark, built their dream home during the pandemic on a breathtaking parcel of wooded land adjacent to the Cantigny Golf...
Eight nostalgic garden flowers worth revisiting for charm, aroma

By JESSICA DAMIANO Associated Press
Apr 24, 2022 7:00 am - In Thornton Wilder's 1938 play "Our Town," heliotrope flowers connect two sets of characters who gather to inhale their intoxicating scent in the moonlight. Heliotropes,...
Agents want home inspectors to hurry up

By Barry Stone
Apr 24, 2022 6:00 am - Q: As a home inspector in the Midwest, I've had a complaint from some of the real estate agents who recommend me to their buyers. These agents say I take too long to do ...
Educators take center stage, as Arlington Heights honors unsung heroes

By Eileen O. Daday
Apr 24, 2022 1:00 am - The Arlington Heights Hearts of Gold award ceremony returned Sunday after a two-year hiatus, and its goal remained the same: to shine a light on the unsung heroes in the...
'Golden Girls' shows little age at inaugural fan convention in Chicago

By TERRY TANG Associated Press
Apr 23, 2022 11:00 pm - CHICAGO - TV shows about sci-fi or comic book fare usually inspire fan conventions - not a sitcom about four women of a certain age living together in Florida. But siste...
Book review: 'King's Shadow' chronicles unlikely treasure hunter

By Andrew DeMillo Associated Press
Apr 23, 2022 7:30 am - "The King's Shadow" by Edmund Richardson (St. Martin's Press) Charles Masson isn't a household name, even for many avid readers of history, but it's easy...
A Viking epic to conquer them all in 'The Northman'

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer
Apr 23, 2022 7:30 am - Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember. Some of his earliest memories are from Oland, a Swedish island on the Baltic Sea, whe...
Pam Grier covers 'everything' in a new podcast of her career

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer
Apr 23, 2022 7:20 am - Pam Grier doesn't look back that often. If she did, she said this week from New Mexico, "I'd be drinking." But when Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz called to a...
'Golden Girls' shows little age at inaugural fan convention

By TERRY TANG
Apr 23, 2022 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - TV shows about sci-fi or comic book fare usually inspire fan conventions - not a sitcom about four women of a certain age living together in Florida. But...

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