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Special assessment on vacant lot should be paid
Mar 23, 2019 6:00 AM - Q. I have an empty lot in another state and pay the yearly property tax, but I stopped paying the assessment charges for sewers, etc., because I doubt, now that I'm 83, that I will ever get to use them. Will nonpayment on the assessments cause me a problem?
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Grammar Moses: Is the adverb an endangered species?
Mar 23, 2019 10:34 PM - Grammar Moses: Is the adverb an endangered species?
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The loss of a longtime partner often leads to long-term grief
Mar 23, 2019 7:00 AM - Long marriages carry a special risk -- very intense grief when one spouse dies.
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Not rich enough to bribe your child's way into college? Here's some help to appeal for more financial aidMar 23, 2019 1:00 AM - In contrast to the reports that super-wealthy parents have paid six-figure bribes to get their children into the best universities, many families struggle to find the cash to pay for their children's education. Part of the outrage over the college-admissions scandal - in which the FBI claims uber-rich parents spent a total of $25 million to get their children into elite colleges - is the amount of money that didn't go to pay for tuition, room and board.
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Constable: How a suburban couple survived world's worst plane disaster
Mar 23, 2019 4:30 PM - Northbrook vacationers Caroline and Warren Hopkins survived the world's worst aviation disaster on March 27, 1977, with a miraculous escape from the collision of two jumbo jets that killed 583 people. It took author Jon Ziomek more than four decades to explain what happened.
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Board members need not be full-time residents
Mar 23, 2019 6:00 AM - Q. One of the board members of our association lives in another part of the state and seldom attends board meetings. Can we amend the declaration to require that a person needs to reside on the property to be elected to and serve on the board?
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Facts Matter: Trump misstated McCain's role in veteran's health program
Mar 23, 2019 5:04 PM - President Trump misrepresented the late U.S. Sen. John McCain's role in veterans healthcare reform, social media posts about recent plane crashes used old photos and a false rumor resurfaced that the singer Prince designed Nike's first Air Jordan, Bob Oswald writes in his Facts Matter column.
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Costumes, comics and heavy metal: What we saw on C2E2's opening day
Mar 22, 2019 6:24 PM - Megadeth meets Deadpool at C2E2, the annual pop culture convention happening all weekend long at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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14 in 11 weeks: More Illinois troopers hit on the road already this year than in all of 2018
Mar 22, 2019 10:24 AM - It's been a hazardous start to 2019 for Illinois State Police, whose patrol cars have been hit by passing vehicles 14 times this year while stopped on the side of the road with emergency lights flashing. That's already more than in all of 2017 and in all of 2018. And 12 of those crashes resulted in injuries -- and one trooper's death.
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Rozner: Gulf golf offers chance to spring ahead
Mar 22, 2019 10:24 PM - A short golf holiday on the Gulf Coast the perfect tonic for the winter that won't end.
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