7/15/14
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...
4/10/13
A recent Atlantic Cities post sketched the real estate issues that accompany school closings: One of the thorniest issues (in what is a veritable...
3/26/13
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...
3/19/13
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 home was built...
3/18/13
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,...
1/23/13
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....
8/23/12
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...
7/25/12
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...
4/6/12
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...
3/19/12
Five years ago today we featured a video on the paradox of Bucktown elementary schools. The paradox or, more accurately, the anomaly? Bucktown‘s population...
3/10/12
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...
1/12/12
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...
1/9/12
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...
1/3/12
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...
11/21/11
Price appreciation in Chicago real estate? In this market? Am I out of my mind to be talking about appreciation? For more than a...
11/20/11
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 presents...
11/3/11
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...
9/16/11
Yesterday I visited the Crescent Park subdivision in Elmhurst with Tom Makinney and Maria Gracik of Koenig & Strey’s Gracik Makinney Group. We shot...
9/5/11
We’ve previously noted the wide variance among Evanston census tracts in private school attendance among elementary school age children. In Census Tract 8092, a...
8/2/11
We’re not seeing – and not likely to see for some time – large new condo projects, but infill development is continuing in this...