Tag: Winnetka
Who’s afraid of New Trier High School?
From Winnetka's New Trier High School:
New Trier High School students in the Class of 2011 achieved an average composite score of 27.5 on the A [...]
YoChicago’s most popular videos for the last 30 days
YoChicago's videos at YouTube were watched more than 55,000 times during the past 30 days. Our video at the Home Alone house, featured above, rece [...]
Extreme rhetoric and character assassination in Winnetka housing debate?
Tonight, Tuesday November 15th, Winnetka's Village Trustees will be discussing Winnetka's affordable housing plan, an issue that's stirred much he [...]
A $225K two-bedroom in Winnetka with an unstable foundation
Five years ago it would have been unthinkable to find a teardown candidate in Winnetka's sought-after Greeley School area for $225,000. That was b [...]
Rent or buy this newer single-family in downtown Winnetka
The recently-built home at 882 Elm in Winnetka carried an asking price of $1,980,000 when we first became aware of it. It was nearing completion i [...]
No North Shore rental deal of the week
I've just finished scouring the new rental listings on the North Shore for bargains to bring to your attention. I couldn't find any.
Perhaps th [...]
Winnetka manse tries $9 million price increase
The last time we wrote about Le Grand Reve, 68 Locust Rd in Winnetka, the price had just been reduced from $28 million to $23 million.
It’s [...]
Where Winnetkans let it all hang out
If you love dirty laundry, you’ll definitely want to spend some time poking around the Winnetka Home Owners Association site. It’s a venue where t [...]
Rent vs own no-brainers in Winnetka’s Woodley Road
As we've noted a number of times before, the Woodley Road area has a Winnetka mailing address but is actually in an unincorporated area of Cook Co [...]
Are owners bailing out of Winnetka’s Woodley Road?
The Woodley Road neighborhood has a Winnetka mailing address but is not in the Village of Winnetka – a fact with important consequences that's fre [...]
North Shore’s priciest communities post year-over-year sales gains
Over at her North Shore Views site, Coldwell Banker's Anne West has just posted single-family home sales numbers for North Shore communities (minus [...]
Winnetka teardowns continue but builders hedge bets
In a recent post, I commented on the relative paucity of listings advertised as teardowns or vacant land on the North Shore.
The few available [...]
North Shore teardown and land listings scarce, but moving slowly
Six years ago builders seeking North Shore teardown lots were as common as flower-munching deer in Highland Park.
Today I can find only 4 home [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From the foreclosure front – a farewell to Winnetka
The following note was posted to a Winnetka group. I've edited it to remove identifying information about the owner.
SADLY I am not still real [...]
The Home Alone house is a great place to call home
My day started with a visit to one of the most iconic homes in America -- the Home Alone house.
The home recently came on the market at a price [...]
‘Home Alone’ house available for $2.4M
It's a little after 9:30 a.m., which means that everyone's already mined the good quotations and bad puns for this story. I'll keep it simple -- t [...]
Winnetka mansion tops suburban sales in April
May is only four days old, but the North Shore may have already seen the top sale for the month: Curbed says a Lake Forest mansion has just closed [...]