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INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY SUSAN W. MURRAY | The coronavirus pandemic advanced the moving timetable for Bazil and Zachary LaBomascus, here with one-year-old Xavier. While living with Bazil’s parents in Woodstock during the stay-at-home order, the couple have been house-hunting in McHenry County. Once they purchase a home, they’ll sell their condo in Logan Square. Their buying range – houses priced under $300,000 – continues to be the most active sector of the steadily improving local housing market, accounting for 88 percent of the homes sold between March 1 and May 31.

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Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008, returning to the paper as a writer in 2018. A 26-year resident of Woodstock, she taught English, American history, and religion to junior high students at St. Mary School for nine years.

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