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Retailers are hoping for more cha-ching, cheer this holiday season

Michelle DeMarco can’t wait for Halloween to end and for her life to get a lot busier.

Keep it short

When the housing market stagnated, Dennis Erickson didn’t expect that he eventually would find himself hip-deep in weeds.

Local job market worsened in September

The job market appeared to worsen in Kane County and throughout much of the rest of Illinois last month, according to a new round of employment numbers.

Home construction came to a virtual halt in Fox Valley this summer

As recently as three years ago, John Hall Jr. didn’t think he’d be this happy to sell six homes.

Local Reps. working on financial regulations

Although much of the public attention since the summer has focused on the health care debate in Congress, that doesn’t mean the private work on other issues stopped.

Frost a big concern for crops heading into harvest

Joe Wiltse would prefer not to harvest anything while working in a cold rain.
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More than 60,000 votes in a day? Ummm, that doesn't sound right

As of 6:11 p.m. Tuesday night, more than 31,000 people had voted in our daily Web poll – "Who do you want to win the 14th Congressional District Republican primary?" If this sounds like an extraordinarily high number to you, well, it is. One might even say it's an extraordinarily unlikely high number.

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