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ForTwo Sales Make for Lengthy Wait
KickingTiresCars.com didn't exactly give the Smart ForTwo rave reviews, but what do we know? The market has spoken, and in these days of the fuel crunch, the ForTwo is selling like hotcakes to a hungry lumberjack. Smart USA has sold......Tags: Smart Car, Sales, Vehicles
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Corrections and clarifications, Aug. 01, 2008
•A reprint of a Wednesday story on an Alzheimer's conference report did not appear as planned in Thursday's North Shore Metro section. The full story appears today in that section on Page 6. •A July 17 front-page article misspelled the last...Tags: Church and State Relations, Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease
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Lake Bluff seeks records that led to tax exemption
Chicago Tribune reporterLake Bluff requested financial records Thursday from a resident who got an $80,000 property tax break from the Illinois Department of Revenue after he converted his lakefront mansion into a church. Village Atty. Peter Friedman also asked the Revenue...Tags: George Michael, Church and State Relations, Physical Fitness, State Budgets, Lawyers
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Corrections and clarifications, Jul. 31, 2008
•A story in some Metro sections Wednesday incorrectly stated that Lake Bluff and Northbrook trustees rejected sprinkler requirements for new single-family homes. Trustees in both villages approved sprinkler requirements. •The full text of...Tags: Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease, Government, Northbrook, National Government
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Lake Bluff house-church tax case to get state's attorney's help
Chicago Tribune reporterFinancial investigators with the Lake County state's attorney's office plan to assist the village of Lake Bluff in its appeal of a property-tax exemption the state granted last month to a resident who contends he turned his lakefront mansion into a...Tags: George Michael, Church and State Relations, Shore Acres, State Budgets
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Letters
No wait for Canadian zin I enjoyed reading the 45th parallel article ("World of Change in Winemaking," June 29) and noted that Doug Jeffirs (director of wine sales at Binny's Beverage Depot) stated that Canadian zinfandel may not be available for 50...Tags: Beverage Industry
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Realtors' campaign bruising to some
Chicago Tribune reporterThe wealthy North Shore has become ground zero for a well-funded Realtors group that has launched campaigns to fight everything from the creation of historic districts to sprinkler requirements for new homes. Using techniques normally associated with...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, Local Elections, Political Candidates, Homes
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Obama's lopsided media coverage
It is good that the Chicago Tribune admitted in its July 25 editorial "Fawning over Obama" that it and other media outlets have been guilty of giving Barack Obama lopsided media coverage. Such an admission was most welcome and long in coming....Tags: Barack Obama, Richard Durbin, Government, National Government
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Banking on the landscape
INTERIORS ---------------------------------------- By lisa skolnik tribune photos by bill hogan Lisa Skolnik is a city editor for Metropolitan Home magazine. ---------------------------------------- When Guillermo Castellanos bought a shabby, 100-...Tags: Architecture, Evanston, Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Design and Engineering
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A flip flopper by any other name...
Why is it that when a Democrat changes his views on a previous subject the Republicans call him a "flip flopper." But when a Republican changes his views on a previous matter the Republicans say that conditions has changed. --Stuart Karno Lake BluffTags: Government, National Government
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Lake Bluff man declares his home a church, gets tax break
Chicago Tribune reporterWhen George Michael placed a cross on the side of his lakefront mansion, neighbors assumed the decoration was simply a display of the man's religious faith. What his neighbors didn't know is that Michael had decided to convert his $3 million residence...Tags: Homes, Church and State Relations, Shore Acres, Property Tax, State Budgets
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Mansion's minister has skeletons in his closet
The famous minister George Michael —the Chicago banker who went online for his collar in what looks like a scam to get out of paying property taxes on his Lake Bluff mansion—sure must like ice cream.
According to court records, he'd call up a...Tags: Minority Groups, Court Administration, Church and State Relations, Jesse Jackson, Greektown
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