Tag: Schools
Why the South Loop is a great place to call home
Coldwell Banker's Nadine Ferrata has lived in the South Loop for more than 20 years and loves calling it her home.
The South Loop has a wide va [...]
Will an Andersonville school convert to “Trumbull Lofts”?
A recent Atlantic Cities post sketched the real estate issues that accompany school closings:
One of the thorniest issues (in what is a veritab [...]
A split-level Elmhurst home with a great deck and yard
The owners of the 3-bedroom, 2 ½ bath split-level at 793 S Washington St have renovated the home over time to make it a warm and cozy environment. [...]
A like-new Nantucket-style home in center-of-town Elmhurst
The 4-bedroom, 4-bath Nantucket-style home at 249 E St Charles Rd is in a convenient center-of-town Elmhurst location.
This like-new, spacious [...]
A wonderfully rehabbed ranch close to Elmhurst schools
The 3-bedroom, 2-bath ranch at 210 W Van Buren St has a great Elmhurst location. It's diagonally across the street from Jackson Elementary School, [...]
Across from Winnetka’s Crow Island School, and under $500K
The 3-bedroom, 2-bath home at 1129 Willow Rd in Winnetka has been on the market for almost 4 months despite a sub-$500K price tag. The market time [...]
A Nantucket-style home in Elmhurst’s Lincoln School district
This six-year old home has an open floor plan with a first-floor office off the living room, a generously sized kitchen that opens to the family r [...]
Walk to three Elmhurst schools without crossing a street
The 3,600 square foot home at 318 Fair Ave has a number of features you don't often find in newer construction in Elmhurst, especially in a home p [...]
Are Winnetka condos a screaming deal for a small family?
A 1,730 square foot 3-bedroom, 3-bath condo at 660 Winnetka Mews just came on the market for $329,000. It had previously sold for $485,500 in Octo [...]
From Yo’s archives – Bucktown’s elementary schools
Five years ago today we featured a video on the paradox of Bucktown elementary schools.
The paradox or, more accurately, the anomaly? Bucktown' [...]
Sunday open house pick – a newly-listed upgraded Elmhurst ranch
The 3-bedroom, 2-bath ranch at 826 S Fairfield Ave is an upgraded variation on the typical ranch home.
The floor plan affords privacy to the be [...]
Do you know where your neighborhood school is?
If you're a single person or a childless couple you may not much care where your neighborhood school is located, or what its reputation or attenda [...]
Is greater Bronzeville a school desert?
There's been a great deal of attention paid to "food deserts" in Chicago, i.e. neighborhoods where fresh food is hard to find.
More worrisome f [...]
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 [...]
Are parts of the West Loop poised for housing price appreciation?
Price appreciation in Chicago real estate? In this market? Am I out of my mind to be talking about appreciation?
For more than a decade Chicago [...]
A contemporary single-family on a wide lot in the Bell School District
The 2500 block of Patterson is a quiet cul-de-sac that's been built out with newer million-dollar homes in Chicago's North Center neighborhood. It [...]
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 brief look at the Crescent Park neighborhood in Elmhurst
Yesterday I visited the Crescent Park subdivision in Elmhurst with Tom Makinney and Maria Gracik of Koenig & Strey's Gracik Makinney Group. We sho [...]
A loose history of Evanston
We've previously noted the wide variance among Evanston census tracts in private school attendance among elementary school age children.
In Ce [...]
Cityscape condos back on market in Bell School attendance area
We're not seeing – and not likely to see for some time – large new condo projects, but infill development is continuing in this depressed market.
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