Jamie Sotonoff
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Tool belt unlocked HGTV career for Wood Dale nativeSep 13, 2011 12:00 am - People follow her around Home Depot. Strangers approach her with cabinet handles or paint samples, asking her opinion on which would look best in a bathroom or kitchen...
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10 years later: What we've learned in the aftermath of 9/11Sep 11, 2011 12:00 am - For the past 10 years, Elgin Fire Chief John Fahy has hung on to a 4-by-6 photo he found at ground zero. He picked the bruised, color picture of a smiling baby girl out ...
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Elgin firefighter restores old firetruck as a gift for NYC colleaguesSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - When Elgin firefighter John Tobin noticed an old New York Fire Department firetruck sitting in a junkyard in New London, Wis., he knew he could transform it into somethi...
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Is this generation of girls meaner than the rest?Sep 07, 2011 1:00 am - Two Florida girls created a Facebook account for a classmate they didn’t like, accumulated 181 friends, and then filled it with obscene photos and nasty comments. In New...
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Actress goes from Prospect High to 'House'Sep 06, 2011 12:00 am - Jennifer Morrison played Eliza Doolittle in the Prospect High School production of "My Fair Lady." So? Morrison starred as the sympathetic Dr. Cameron on "House," and ...
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Suburban sculptor designs massive Sept. 11 tributeSep 01, 2011 12:00 am - He's sculpted Wayne Gretzky and Rosa Parks, elephants and globes. Yet, the massive new Sept. 11 tribute sculpture by renowned Crystal Lake artist Erik Blome proved to be...
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“Historic” settlement for nursing home patientsAug 30, 2011 12:00 am - Medicaid-eligible people with disabilities who have been forced by the state to live in Cook County nursing homes will now have the option of living at home and receivin...
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Denise Richards: Suburban upbringing kept me groundedAug 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Downers Grove native talks about her new book
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Hoffman grad does sickly makeup for beautiful 'Contagion' starsAug 23, 2011 5:00 am - So, your job is to take the radiantly beautiful, Oscar-winning actresses Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow and make them look as if they've contracted a deadly, unknown d...
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Downers Grove artist fires up a career in special effectsAug 15, 2011 11:00 pm - One of the most provocative job titles in Hollywood — aside from best boy and gaffer, of course — has to be “Flame artist.” Flame artist? Sounds like a guy who p...