Hugh Hart

Based on an informal survey of multiple renters, here are some survival tips for sharing your home with others: - Be neat, at least outside of your own room. Most...

Here are some guidelines excerpted from the City of Chicago`s noise ordinance: - Between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m., no vehicle can create noise exceeding 55 decibels within a residential...

Pianist Grant Johannesen joins the Elgin Symphony Orchestra this weekend to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Mozart`s death. Johannesen began his professional career under the baton of George Szell at...

Here are some of the northwest suburban rock bands that have been featured on ''Northwest On Stage'': - D`Artagnan, based in Schaumburg, hit its first peak in 1985 when it...

Just as record companies do everything they can to shape a band into a Top 40 contender, radio stations increasingly have turned to market research to make sure their playlists...

Need a batch of tiny basketball shoes in which to serve sorbet? How about bunnies, blimps, boxing gloves or banana boats? Chocolates Ala Carte, a California chocolatier run by Rena...

One of the Chicago area`s finest songwriters, Ralph Covert, will play with his band the Bad Examples on Friday at South Side Johnny`s, 110 Main St., Crystal Lake. Covert, a...

Here are the minimum temperature requirements set forth by Chicago, Oak Park and Evanston (the three municipalities that have their own tenant laws) for landlord-heated apartments: - Chicago: 68 degrees...

Beyond the Magnificent Mile, beyond Chicagoland`s massive malls, beyond even the Land Beyond O`Hare, there lurk dozens of gift opportunities for picky shoppers. As compiled in the ''Made in Illinois...

Elgin area youngsters will play Santa`s reindeer and Little Bo Peep`s sheep in the Dayton Ballet`s Sunday performance of ''The Night Before Christmas'' at Hemmens Auditorium, 150 Dexter Ct., Elgin....