Lifestyle
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Cook like a grandmother with ‘The League of Kitchens Cookbook’
Jan 17, 2025 8:16 am - Lisa Kyung Gross was so convinced that everyone should learn dishes from an elder that she founded The League of Kitchens in 2014, a network of culinary workshops hosted by immigrant home cooks. Last fall the League released a cookbook featuring 75 family recipes.
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Carolyn Hax: Partner’s menopause symptoms taking a toll on family
Jan 17, 2025 6:00 am - Partner’s untreated menopause symptoms are taking a toll on the family, especially the teen son. She stopped taking medications due to side effects, but now her partner wants her to reconsider for her son’s sake. Carolyn Hax says easier said than done when he’s not the one dealing with it.
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Ask the doctors: Knee replacement can help with range of motion, painJan 16, 2025 4:36 pm - Doctors explain how partial and full knee replacements work, and how they can affect your every day life.
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Grief & healing: Cooking lessons teach how to keep life simpleJan 16, 2025 3:32 pm - My husband, Baheej, enjoyed good meals, and was a very good cook. He made delicious but very uncomplicated dishes. I learned a lot about cooking from him. And every time I make one his favorites, I silently thank him and remember sharing it with him.
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Children’s Health: What parents need to know about whooping coughJan 16, 2025 3:28 pm - Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that attacks the lining of the breathing passages. People can get whooping cough any time of year, but generally infections are seen in late summer and fall.
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Lincoln Park Zoo seal, flamingo die from bird flu
Jan 16, 2025 2:50 pm - Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo announced.
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What happens if TikTok is banned? Your guide to a possible shut down.
Jan 16, 2025 2:09 pm - TikTok users, you’re going to be in limbo for now. TikTok, which is on the precipice of a nationwide ban in the United States as soon as Sunday, could avert a shutdown. I...
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‘A loss for our neighborhood’: St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic School in Palatine is closingJan 16, 2025 10:50 am - St. Thomas of Villanova Parish in Palatine announced this week its school will close by the end of this school year.
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Art Deco style is popular again, a century after its heyday
Jan 16, 2025 7:00 am - A century after it was formally introduced at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, in Paris, Art Deco is enjoying a resurgence in decor, fashion and more. A new generation is appreciating the style’s unapologetically glamorous roots and translating it into something new.
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Gatekeeping the ‘Sex and the City’ stoop
Jan 16, 2025 2:02 am - It seems the interest in the “Sex and the City” stoop in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village historic district is endless. After years of tourists flocking to the stoop for pictures, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is allowing the building’s owner to install a steel and iron gate at the foot of her brownstone stoop to prevent lookie-loos from climbing the stairs and bothering the building’s residents.