Alex Denno, the owner of Palatine's Tick Tock Clock Repairs, is fond of a saying that is a truism in his industry. "You have to put time in to fix time," said Denno, in his second year as company ...

The tick-tick sound comes from the movement of gears and parts inside the clock. In mechanical clocks, a part called the ...

With clocks relentlessly ticking and chimes melodically ringing, the Tick Tock Shop is not a quiet place. But that symphony — from desk clocks and wall clocks and cuckoo clocks and more — is lost on ...