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Here's one way you can safely greet your Halloween trick-or-treaters this year without fear of contracting COVID-19.

Decent: If necessity is the mother of invention, this Halloween will be like no other

October 23, 2020 at 3:19 p.m.

As 2020 starts limping towards its bitter end, no one is going to be surprised that this year's holiday season will be like no other. Thanks to the pandemic we...

Column: She fell in love with jazz at age 7. Now the Naperville performer hopes to bring it to the world.

October 17, 2020 at 10:22 a.m.

Isabella Isherwood was just 7 years old when she stepped into her first jazz club. It was in Oakland County, Michigan, and although several decades younger than the usual audience...

Column: At 104, Naperville woman’s memories recall times when the world was less ‘evil’

October 9, 2020 at 8:04 a.m.

She's lived through the Spanish flu pandemic, two world wars and the Great Depression, but Jean Wardle says she's never seen events as horrifying as what's been happening in 2020....

Column: Naperville man uses his hearing loss as chance to reinvent his life with new business

October 2, 2020 at 2:50 p.m.

Sometimes opportunity can strike in the most unlikely of circumstances. Just as the coronavirus pandemic was taking hold back in March, Kurt Allgauer lost his hearing. But instead of letting...

Decent column: Naperville church stepping in to help parents get through remote learning

September 25, 2020 at 1:14 p.m.

How's the school day going in your household? Are you one of thousands of parents trying to supervise more than one child while trying to get your own work done?...

Column: CEO of Bridge Communities knows the challenge of rising up from poverty

September 22, 2020 at 10:43 a.m.

Bridge Communities' new CEO speaks from the heart when she empathizes with her clients. She knows what it is like to live in poverty, receive a hand up and turn...

It seems online scamming business never takes a break -- regardless of pandemic, protests or political unrest -- judging from the email arriving in columnist Hilary Decent's mailbox.

Decent: There’s gold in them thar emails for the scam artists who want to give you millions

September 11, 2020 at 1:36 p.m.

The coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, political fighting; there's so much anger it's easy to forget about the kindness of strangers. However, when I recently looked through some unread...

It's hard to imagine a time when seeing people wearing face masks doing ordinary tasks would be considered commonplace but no one could have predicted much about what's happened in 2020.

Decent: Even a psychic couldn’t predict the craziness we’ve experienced in 2020 so far

September 4, 2020 at 12:18 p.m.

Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune. I'd say I knew you were coming here today but that wouldn't be proof of my clairvoyant tendencies, it...

Column: Naperville’s first murder victim, the result of a deadly love tryst, now has an unmarked grave

August 29, 2020 at 12:33 p.m.

It's a dramatic tale of infidelity and revenge, a crime of passion that took place on a snowy night in Naperville more than 150 years ago. The victim was James...

Hilary Decent: Old-fashioned pen pal letters striking a chord for teens who find they love corresponding with seniors

August 14, 2020 at 2:58 p.m.

The coronavirus pandemic has been hard on everyone, particularly elderly residents of care homes and their families, who went from enjoying regular visits to waving at each other through a...

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