Empty mansions are legacy of a mystery heiress
Huguette Clark inherited fabulous wealth of the Gilded Age, then withdrew into a gilded cage. What will become of her vast fortune is as mysterious as the woman herself, who at age 104 occupies a drab hospital room instead her lavish — but empty — estates. Gilded Age – Games – Arts – United States – Huguette Clark
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4 of 5 W. Chicago gardens featured on walk are on same cul-de-sac
A green thumb isn’t required to live on Woodboro Drive in West Chicago. It just seems that way. This year, the pretty little cul-de-sac is home to four of the five residential gardens on the West Chicago Garden Club’s garden walk Sunday, Aug. 1.
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State of the ‘View-Nion’
President Barack Obama got comfy with the co-hosts discussing the personal, political, and even the pop cultural on ‘The View’ today. Mr. Obama joked that he chose to come on the show because he ‘was trying to find a show that Michelle actually watched.’ Mr. Obama is the first sitting president to appear in studio on a day time talk show, though President George W. Bush did appear on the Dr …
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