Alex L. Goldfayn

When it came to the windows, things got especially difficult. Chicago real estate investor Steve Racz is helping his parents, both in their 60s, build a home in Lake Geneva,...

Instead of exchanging gifts for the holidays this year, Karen Soenen and her husband purchased a new kitchen table. "Our kitchen really needs a round table, so we ordered it...

Derek Bartlett got a mobile phone over Thanksgiving. It's a bright green-and-black device called the Migo, manufactured by LG Electronics, and designed for children. Available through Verizon Wireless for $100...

David Cooke and his colleagues get called in on the hard cases. When power goes out repeatedly in the same area, for example, Cooke and his fellow Commonwealth Edison reliability...

For a year, Andres Pinter tormented his brother with monkey pictures. Once a month, Pinter would e-mail his brother, Nicholas, a genealogy professor at Southern Illinois University, pictures of monkeys...

It sounds too good to be true, but Cassandra Janda is happy to tell you it is not. That's because Janda won an iPod Nano while doing a Google search....

If tech gadgets are in your holiday shopping plans, a good person to talk to is John Biggs, news editor at New York City-based Gizmodo.com. With about 10 million page...

Lynne Danielson and her boyfriend tried the traditional way of adopting a dog from a shelter: calling and visiting. But the process, bogged down by constantly rotating animals, overworked staff...

They don't broadcast "The Daily Show" or San Francisco 49ers' games on TV in Japan. But when Jason Krikorian was there on business this month, he could watch those programs...

Technically, Adam Kempenaar is the Web producer for the Chicago Blackhawks. But that's like saying the old Chicago Stadium only got a little bit loud during national anthems preceding Hawks...