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Laura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the...

Anna Newell Jones started her personal finance blog as a way to hold herself accountable during what she called "the spending fast" — her drastic plan to get herself out...

Holly Agra tilts her head upward, letting sunlight settle on her face. She stills her fingers from fiddling with her iPhone. She gazes at the bridges and the current of...

There was a time, a few years ago, when some of the technologically savvy attendees at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington would avoid entering the sanctuary for the...