The lowest-priced rental home in East Wilmette
The past 7 days have seen a 40% jump in the number of MLS rental offerings in Wilmette – from 15 to 21.
One of them stands out: a 5-bedroom, ba [...]
The fast food desertification of the North Shore
The concept of a “food desert” (PDF) is familiar to many West and South Siders in Chicago, but not everyone recognizes that most of Chicago’s Nort [...]
A guide to moving to Wilmette
YoChicago's guide to Wilmette contains an overview, video, lists and links to schools, recreation, shopping, neighborhoods and all you'd want to consi [...]
No Man’s Land in Wilmette
The northernmost stretch of Wilmette was once known as No Man’s Land, since it was unincorporated, and not part of Wilmette.
No Man’s Land develope [...]
A 6-bedroom, 3-bath bungalow on an East Wilmette cul-de-sac
Bungalows are as common as hyper-cute 4-year olds in Wilmette, so it wasn’t the home style that drew me to an open house several blocks from the Lin [...]
Mallinckrodt's "active-adult" community makes room for the whippersnappers
You move to Mallinckrodt on the Park thinking you'll find peace and quiet among fellow gray-hairs, and the next thing you know, all these youngsters [...]
Introducing Wilmette's Kenilworth Gardens
Kenilworth Gardens is the area bounded on the east by Ridge, on the south (approximately) by Lake, on the north by the Indian Hill Club, and on the [...]
A fabulous master suite in Wilmette
Wilmette's Indian Hill Estates is a 170-acre subdivision planned by architect Philip Maher in the 1920s. The area was mostly built in the 1950s and [...]
Living inside the Mallinckrodt College chapel
One of the most distinctive living spaces at Mallinckrodt in the Park is a converted chapel that maintains its old pillars, archways, and high ceili [...]
A Mallinckrodt condo with the feel of a home
The model condo at Wilmette's Mallinckrodt in the Park senior living development is a two-bedroom unit with 1,900 square feet. As Joe Zekas notes mo [...]
From college to condos: A trip to Mallinckrodt in the Park in Wilmette
The old Mallinckrodt College building at 1041 Ridge Rd has been a fixture in Wilmette and the North Shore for almost a century. The 180,000 square-f [...]
From the vault: Rezko's residence and the CAGE of East Wilmette
Now that Tony Rezko's East Wilmette home is on the market, it's time to revisit this video from the YoNorthShore archive: a drive down Chestnut Aven [...]
A walk-to-train home in Wilmette
With 3,100 square feet, three stories, five bedrooms, and 4.5 baths, the renovated single-family home at 1418 Elmwood Ave in Wilmette represents "a [...]
The buyers were out in Wilmette today
Earlier this afternoon I spent over an hour at a newly-listed home at 1418 Elmwood Ave in Wilmette.
Cliff Breslow and Linda Martin of Coldwell Bank [...]
From the video vault: Wilmette's Christmas house
In 2006 Joe Zekas trained his video camera on one of Wilmette's favorite Christmas traditions, the Warren A. Perkins Memorial Christmas Display.
Al [...]