Tag: Wilmette
Wilmette open house pick – New construction for $1.395M
Isabella St defines a large part of Wilmette's southern border with Evanston. On the north side of the street west of Green Bay Rd, in Wilmette, [...]
A highly-addictive Christmas lights and music show in Wilmette
On Christmas Eve my daughter Val and I headed over to the corner of Cleveland St and Thornwood Ave in Wilmette, planning to spend a few minutes se [...]
A short-term furnished rental in Wilmette
If you would like to try on life in Wilmette before making a commitment to it, a short-term furnished rental might be the way to go.
There's a [...]
Rental pick of the day – Wilmette 4-bedroom for $1,900
A 4-bedroom, 2-bath ranch home at 537 Romona Rd in Wilmette is being offered for rent at $1,900 a month. That's an unusually low price for a 4-bed [...]
A Wilmette home to control your morals and happiness
When it comes to pompous pronouncements, Chicago architects have many peers but few superiors. Consider this quote from John Shelette Van Bergen, [...]
Rental deal of the day – Wilmette 4-bedroom with master suite
The 4-bedroom, 3-bath home at 3016 Wilmette Ave in Wilmette was "expanded and totally renovated in 2004," according to the listing that recently c [...]
Wilmette, where East is East and West is West
When I first moved to Wilmette, back in the late 80s, my Jewish friends were intensely curious about what part of town I was moving to. East Wilme [...]
North Shore rental pick; kid not included
The number of MLS-listed rentals in Chicago's North Shore suburbs increased by 9% during the past week, to 274 homes and condos. Forty new listing [...]
Mayor touts one of Chicago’s competitive advantages
Mayor Emanuel has moved back into his Ravenswood home and rode the Brown Line to work today.
"Got on the train and got to work in 30 minutes, s [...]
Wilmette open house pick – a 4-bedroom under $500K
There are currently only four 4-bedroom homes listed for sale for less than $500,000 east of Skokie Rd in Wilmette. Two of them have been on the m [...]
Wilmette resident cries fowl over chicken ban
If a chicken-friendly environment is a checklist item for your move to the North Shore you may have to rule out the Village of Wilmette. According [...]
A Colorado-style home in Wilmette’s Indian Hill Estates
The recently-listed 6-bedroom home at 1045 Romona Rd sits on a secluded half-acre lot with an in-ground pool and hot tub.
The site is larger t [...]
A Wilmette rental pick and a North Shore update
The MLS-listed rental inventory of homes and condos ticked up slightly over the past week, from a 13-month low of 230 last week to 236 this week. [...]
Kenilworth is the capital of stately on the North Shore
If you're a hard-core Joycean, as I once was, the word "stately" immediately calls to mind the opening of Ulysses and the rites of "stately, plump [...]
Wilmette’s pain may be your gain
Whether there's a need for more affordable housing has been the hot topic in Winnetka recently while neighboring Wilmette ponders what to do with [...]
Our Wilmette open house pick was quickly picked
Our Wilmette open house pick went under contract prior to today's scheduled open house. Anyone arriving at the home today would have seen the abov [...]
Sunday open house pick – $350K Wilmette starter home
Our open house pick this weekend is a 3-bedroom, 2 ½ bath 50s-vintage split-level ranch at 527 Romona Rd in West Wilmette. It's a relatively affor [...]
In Wilmette’s Kenilworth Gardens, the fourth bedroom costs $200K
Over at North Shore Views Anne West lists the homes for sale in Wilmette's Kenilworth Gardens neighborhood, an area that's long had a strong appea [...]
East Wilmette short sale below 1999 price
A 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 906 Greenleaf Ave in Wilmette just came on the market as a short sale, at $550,000. The home sold for $615,000 in Ju [...]
An ‘impeccable restoration’ in Wilmette, priced at $2.25M
This 6,000 square-foot single-family home at 744 Sheridan Rd in Wilmette was the Wall Street Journal's House of the Day on Monday. In a 10-photo s [...]