Heirloom, new or used crystal and cut glass items are beautiful to use, but they are easily chipped, cracked or broken. Damaged items are often relegated to the back of the china closet, or if too far ...

Mary Lou Gates of Mary Lou’s Crystal Repair in Joliet does the careful work of crystal repair, as she has done now for 55 years — 40 of them at The Little Traveler in Geneva — working her magic to fix ...

Q I have two expensive crystal wine glasses with small chips in the base of the stem. My neighbor told me she thought there were places you could take them to have the chip filed down, or perhaps this ...

People line up almost like they’re going to see Santa, but they’re there to see if the “Crystal Fixer” at The Little Traveler in Geneva can repair their precious item. Nancy Grossman of St. Charles ...