Tag: North suburbs
Abbott’s bad news for Lake Bluff, North Chicago
Abbott Laboratories, a major employer in Lake County, announced plans to lay off 1,900 workers, about 1,000 of them in Illinois, primarily in Lake [...]
Underwater sellers at Optima Old Orchard Woods
Optima Old Orchard Woods is seeing some of the sharp price drops that have plagued suburban condo developments in recent years.
There are curre [...]
New listing bucks price trends at The Glen in Glenview
Several months back I reported, in the above video, on single-family homes at The Glen in Glenview that were languishing on the market at prices b [...]
Niles, a best place to raise kids
A hat tip to Chicagoist’s blatant rewrite of this Pioneer Press article for alerting us to Niles having been named the best place to raise kids in [...]
Triumvera’s HOA from hell
Seeing a new listing at 3700 Capri Ct at Triumvera set me off on a walk down memory lane. The listing states that it’s in Glenview, but it’s actua [...]
Riverwoods, where home prices took a 40% hit
Last July Bill and Sherry Kaplan, long-time friends, took me on a driving tour (video playlist) of Riverwoods, the closest-in approximation of a r [...]
From Albany Park to Lincolnwood?
The visual transition from the City of Chicago to north-suburban Lincolnwood is so subtle that city dwellers often mistake the village for a Chicago n [...]
An affordably-priced 3-bedroom condo in Park Ridge
When Bristol Court was converted to condos in the late 1970s, a partner and I bought two 2-bedroom, 2-bath units there at prices in the low $40s, [...]
It’s tax-raising time in the northern suburbs
If you’ve been reading the north suburban news feed on our Chicago Real Estate News page, you’ve probably noticed the steady drumbeat of headlines [...]
Northfield’s decades-old Willow Road debate
Just about 2 ½ years ago I chatted with two members of the North Suburban Awareness Group about the then decades-old controversy over widening Wil [...]
One-third of Glenview sales foreclosures
More than 350 homes in affluent north-suburban Glenview are in foreclosure, according to the Village’s Communication’s Director.
And, a local [...]
The vacant home on Castlewood Lane
Several weeks ago Joe Zekas took a video tour down Castlewood Lane in Deerfield, just north of Deerfield Road.
The area has an attractive locat [...]
Toll Brothers, Glenview and CribChatter
Google Analytics tells us that many of our readers also visit CribChatter, and many of their readers visit YoChicago. We have very different appro [...]
5 beds, 3 baths, horrific traffic, in Northbrook
The 5-bedroom, 3 bath home at 15 N Constance Ln in Northbrook is for sale at $269,000, for “land value.” The land value has, at least in the dream [...]
Looking toward a land sale at The Glen
The Glen, a large-scale mixed-use redevelopment of the former Glenview Naval Air Station, has been one of the nation’s most successful development [...]
Is that trailer park in Northfield or Glenview or neither?
I frankly don’t know whether Sunset Village, which bills itself as “Glenview’s finest manufactured home community,” is in Northfield or Glenview o [...]
Jewish businesses head to Skokie after Jews leave
Skokie Patch is suggesting that Skokie is becoming “the new hub of the Jewish business community,” swiping that designation from Chicago’s Rogers [...]
A value-priced six-bedroom in Northfield, home of Cook County’s lowest tax rate
According to the Tribune,
The lowest combined tax rate in the county this year is in north suburban Northfield, where property values are high. Tax [...]
Apartment rental bedbugs infest Glenview
Some of you may be familiar wth my long-standing practice of referring to apartment rental services as maggots.
I’ve decided that reference is unfa [...]
Twenty percent off 20 units at Optima
A few days ago Joe Zekas stopped by Optima Old Orchard Woods in Skokie earlier today to check in with sales manager Eric Richards. Buyer traffic was [...]