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Congress extended the tax credit to try to continue boosting the flailing housing market. Is the extension going to help?

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Angels' story has a happy ending
Angels' story has a happy ending
In high school sports, like in real life, sometimes things work out just right. Not always. Sometimes.

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Calling fowl over chicken arguments
At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Lockport will vote on whether to lift its chicken ban. Plenty of upstanding municipalities, including Naperville, allow chickens in backyards. They're a good source of local, sustainable food. But plenty of people have a knee-jerk reaction and think they should be banned everywhere? But their arguments just crack under examination.

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Rain may put pumpkin pie in peril, Nestle says
The holidays may not be so sweet this year. Nestle — which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. — says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage of its Libby's pumpkin pie products through the holidays.



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Subaru Forester sets the bar for the small SUV segment LX 570 defines luxury cruising CX-7 lives up to zoom-zoom ads Will tax credit extension help the real estate market? Apartment industry takes a bow Checking home's security online

Pierogi lovers' 'heaven' is in a basement

Pierogi heaven is quite possibly located in the basement of Barbara and Alex "Gooch" Kwiatkowski's Midlothian home. Ask any of a large number of their family, friends and "friends of friends" who have been showing up every fall for the last 20 years to spend the day in pierogi production.

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