Wilmette Christmas lights and holiday cheer
Two years ago the Maris home at 1200 Cleveland in Wilmette boasted more than 50,000 lights computer-controlled by more than 300 channels.
This [...]
Wilmette teardowns are back
Travel back in time to the spring of 2006 and you would have found more than 100 homes on the Village of Wilmette's list of pending and approved d [...]
Can an off-lakefront Wilmette home command $4.5 million?
The asking price for the 6-bedroom, 6 ½ bath home at 723 8th St in Wilmette is $4,500,000. The home, built in 2011, boasts an outdoor pool and a 3 [...]
Wilmette’s well-fed birds – and squirrels
Some suburbs are obsessive about preventing their citizens from placing anything in the public parkway abutting their property. That's not the cas [...]
Christmas on Cleveland, Wilmette’s winter wonderland
The northeast corner of Cleveland and Thornwood in Wilmette is home, once again, to an enchanting display of Christmas lights and music.
Wilme [...]
A Wilmette teardown trio
Wilmette no longer makes available an online list of demolition permits, so I don't have accurate data about the current pace of teardowns in the [...]
A rare rental on the beach in Wilmette
There are only a few dozen single-family homes in Wilmette that have private beaches, and it's extremely rare to see one of them become available [...]
A renovated and expanded East Wilmette classic
618 Central Ave in Wilmette is the setting for a classic side-entrance center-entrance vintage charmer that's been completely updated. The home ha [...]
Live two doors from the Wilmette Christmas house
I'm a sucker for a front porch, and the home at 2022 Wilmette Ave in Wilmette has a great south-facing one that wraps around the sides of the home [...]
North Shore rental pick – Wilmette’s Kenilworth Gardens
It's been a while since I spotlighted a North Shore rental pick.
This week's focus falls on 2240 Kenilworth Ave, a 3-bedroom, 2 ½ bath home in [...]
A video tour of Chiasso’s new Wilmette showroom
If you're shopping for home furnishings and accessories you may find it easier to head for the Old Orchard mall in Skokie rather than the traffic- [...]
How to sharpen your North Shore new construction search
Looking back to 2007 it's now clear that a cottage industry of home builders overbuilt the market for new single-family homes in the $1 million an [...]
A New Year’s Day open house at a new Wilmette home
If you guessed that no one would want to visit open houses on New Year's Day, you would have guessed wrong.
Within 50 minutes of the time it op [...]
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 [...]