7/31/11
A hat tip to Anne West’s informative North Shore Views blog for alerting me to one of her recent listings in northwest Evanston, a...
6/30/11
Over at his lively Chicago Real Estate Local blog, Prudential Rubloff’s Eric Rojas has been surveying home prices in sought-after “buzz” elementary school districts....
5/26/11
If the approaching end of the school year reminds you that you’ve been meaning to have yourself in a new home and the kids...
4/7/11
The Alexander Graham Bell School in St Ben’s is one of the city’s most desirable grade schools; among boundary-area schools, only Lincoln ranked higher...
3/18/11
The housing stock, the schools, and mass-transit access to downtown Chicago make it easy to understand why so many families find west suburban River...
3/4/11
In a 3-part video interview, State Rep Marlow Colvin provides a great overview of Chatham, the South Side community where he grew up. In...
2/16/11
Lincoln Elementary School is generally recognized as one of the best neighborhood-boundary schools in Chicago, and homes within its attendance boundaries often sell at...
2/6/11
Brynford Park is a tiny, easy-to-overlook, rather isolated pocket in Chicago’s North Park neighborhood. It’s a mere six square blocks hosting just over 100...
2/6/11
Berwyn’s campaign to attract gay residents, which we’ve mentioned before, becomes easier to understand once you take a closer look at Berwyn’s schools. They’re...
1/23/11
School overcrowding is usually associated with rapidly-growing suburbs on the urban periphery. It’s also a fact of life in some of Chicago’s near-in suburbs,...
1/14/11
Following months of lobbying by area residents, Chicago Public Schools approved a plan to open a new K-8 magnet school in the former Jefferson...
1/12/11
Bridgeport Child Development Center II has earned accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the nation’s leading organization of early...
1/10/11
By many measures, Nettelhorst is an exception. Just 11 years ago, the facility at Broadway and Melrose Avenue was a failing school on the...
1/6/11
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...
1/4/11
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...
1/4/11
Built for a then-hefty $9 million, South Shore High was planned to be “a pace-setter for the city,” according to a 1968 Tribune story....
12/3/10
Buying a home involves round after round of trade-offs. I’ve always thought it made the most sense to prioritize the community and environment and...
11/9/10
Nicholas Apostal grew up in Lincoln Park and attended Lincoln Park Elementary School (currently the city’s best boundary-area elementary) and Francis Parker School. After...
11/5/10
Last week the Sun-Times published its 2010 report cards for public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Chicago area. The top seven public...
9/7/10
Few elementary schools in Chicago perform better on an annual basis than Oriole Park Elementary in Norwood Park. According to school rankings published in...