Home and Garden
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Gardens planted indoors are growing in popularityOct 02, 2016 6:00 am - Imagine stepping into a bathtub, and instead of bathroom tiles lining the wall next to you, there's a fresh vertical garden, lush with bright green ferns, lavender, baby...
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Time to plant cool-season vegetablesOct 02, 2016 6:00 am - Cool-season lettuces, mesclun mixes and other greens that were planted in early spring may be planted again. If the weather is unusually hot, plant these greens in parti...
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Cancer survivor designs the beauty of parks, lifeOct 02, 2016 1:00 am - Lori Vierow of Elmhurst is an award-winning architectural designer who recently joined the Arlington Heights office of GreenbergFarrow, a global architecture and enginee...
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Sale of primary home not likely to incur income taxOct 01, 2016 6:00 am - Q. My mother asked me to write to you with some questions. My parents recently sold their home in Colorado, which they'd lived in since 1975. Since 2014, they'd had a ca...
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Menswear motifs give decor a dash of debonairOct 01, 2016 6:00 am - Many of this fall's home decor collections are sporting a rather debonair look. Tweeds, tartans and twills drape cushions and comforters; furniture is clad in supple lea...
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Debate continues on dual representation by an agentOct 01, 2016 5:01 am - The long debate regarding whether it is right or legal for a real estate broker to represent both the seller and buyer in a sales transaction is now again heating up. Ma...
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Buy one, get one free? There is no such thing!Oct 01, 2016 5:00 am - The food market closest to my home went out of business recently, and was replaced by a supermarket chain. In most respects, the new store is an improvement over the one...
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Inspection report is not a repair list for sellersSep 30, 2016 6:00 am - Q. Before buying our home, we hired a home inspector to make a complete repair list for the sellers. He did a very thorough job, but the inspection was a waste of money ...
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Does the value of your home affect how you vote?Sep 30, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Do home values have any significance when it comes to presidential elections? Not directly. But indirectly they are manifestations of economic growth, unemp...
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Make Island Lake beautiful, plant an irisSep 29, 2016 1:00 am - A botanical beautification project in Island Lake gets under way Saturday - but it's already more successful than organizers envisioned. When village officials announced...