Designer Touch Lights Up Holidays with Pro Decor Ideas
Looking ahead to festive decor, this feature surveys how designers styled homes for the season. Professionals share trends, color palettes, and standout elements that created inviting, stylish holiday spaces.
Sweet memories of special Christmases from the past
Recollections honor cherished Christmas moments shared by loyal readers with nostalgic notes and Dimensions edition style. The column invites reflections on seasonal traditions and family warmth from earlier years.
Hoop hoopla sparks season with high school basketball previews
Seasonal festivities expand beyond lights and gifts as high school hoops take center stage. Here in previews, teams from local districts ramp up for tournament time, with standout players, rivalries, and anticipated matchups shaping the season.
Poet Tom Houlihan Teases Sunday's TV Listings Feature
A columnist known for mirth and verse hints at an upcoming January TV Close-up. The note references a Page A-12 feature and provides main and circulation contact numbers for the newspaper.
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Tom Houlihan
Christmas Quiet in Forest Preserves
In dense forest preserves the day is the quietest of the year. Animals sense a special date on December 25 while humans mark the season with holiday peace and good will.
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Susan DeMar Lafferty
Christmas Bird Count Grows Into Regional Celebration
Mary McCabe notes the National Audubon society's annual Christmas Bird Count began as a small protest 94 years ago and now invites broad participation. The Thorn Creek Audubon Society heads the 15 mile south suburban segment, with Marianne Hahn explaining the event's history. See BIRDS, Page A-6
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National Audubon Society
Marianne Hahn
Thorn Creek Audubon Society
Commons TIF plan presented for Matteson Commons district
Matteson Commons developers seek a tax increment financing plan with a 150 acre hotel and retail district from Vollmer Road to 205th Street and Cicero Avenue to Interstate 57. If buildings are constructed and permits sold by December 31, 2000, the developers receive 15.75 dollars per square foot. incentives end after 2000.
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Matteson Commons
Matteson Village Board
Sam Polsky
Transcontinental Development Corporation
Polsky
Vollmer Road
205Th Street
Cicero Avenue
Coghenese
Richton Park Launches Child Safety Seat Loan Program
Richton Park, led by Village President Rudolph Banovich, starts a Protect the Children program to loan child safety seats for up to two weeks. The effort, in cooperation with the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association and the Illinois DOT, aims to boost holiday safety. Seats are limited and loaned first come, first served, with details at the village police desk weekdays 9 to 5.
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Richton Park
Rudolph Banovich
South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association
Illinois Department of Transportation
Banovich
Mayors Association
Star's American Publishing buys Daily Southtown for 31.9 million
American Publishing Co owner of Star Newspapers announced the 31.9 million cash acquisition of Pulitzer Community Newspapers including the Daily Southtown and News Marketer. The takeover expands Chicago area reach with Star and Southtown joining under one group, with existing leaders stressing improved reader and advertiser benefits and ongoing separate operations during the transition.
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Star Newspapers
Southtown
Pulitzer Community Newspapers, Inc
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Chicago
Larry J. Perotto
American Publishing
Star Publications
Norman Rosinski
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Chicago Sun-Times
Pioneer Press
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Pulitzer
Perotto
Tom Jackson
Fisher
Willontinue
American Publishing Organization
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