4/18/12
The Village of Western Springs is situated between La Grange and Hinsdale. The attractions of Western Springs, apart from its small-town atmosphere, include its...
4/13/12
“It’s not the town for you if you want to be anonymous,” says Ann-Marie Hickey about the Village of Western Springs, which has been...
4/12/12
As I was leaving Western Springs yesterday I chanced upon the home at 811 Oak St that’s pictured above. I had to stop for...
3/30/12
The 4-bedroom, 2 ½ bath 2-story home at 964 Kent Ave in the Elm Estates neighborhood of Elmhurst will be instantly recognizable to tens...
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...
2/18/12
While many suburban downtowns have been struggling for years and searching for ways to reinvent themselves, downtown Elmhurst has been thriving. The City Centre...
2/17/12
South Street, with its broad expanse of front lawns and lush, colorful vegetation, is one of the most attractive streets in Elmhurst’s sought-after Cherry...
2/15/12
Cicero hasn’t always had a source of pride readily at hand, so when the town recently went 14 months without a street-gang related killing,...
12/22/11
A mere five bucks garnered participants in Oak Park’s 4th Annual Cookie Walk a souvenir cookie tin, up to 54 free cookies available at...
12/6/11
Neumann Homes, once one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2007, and developer Ken Neumann told Bloomberg Businessweek in 2008...
10/17/11
I’ve seen quite a bit of west-suburban Elmhurst of late, and what struck me the most is the number of new construction homes underway...
10/10/11
The 5-bedroom, 5 ½ bath home at 757 S Berkley Ave rests on a pretty tree-lined street in the Lincoln Elementary School area in...
10/6/11
I was in Elmhurst yesterday, shooting video tours of three homes listed with Tom Makinney and Maria Gracik of Koenig & Strey’s Gracik Makinney...
10/3/11
Elmhurst’s Crescent Park neighborhood is bounded on the west by Poplar Ave, on the north by St Charles Rd, on the east by I-290...
9/28/11
The Village of Riverside’s story is too storied to bear repeating, but if you’re interested you can visit the websites of the Village and...
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...
8/31/11
Hartz Homes has been building homes for 50 years in an industry that’s been periodically decimated. And Hartz is continuing to build, recently debuting...
8/29/11
Unit 7 at 1209 N Harlem Ave in Oak Park came on the market 4 days ago, priced at – wait for it –...
7/6/11
The 3-bedroom, bath-and-a-half home at 12 Lathrop Ave in River Forest came on the market in January at a list price of $399,000. After...
7/5/11
The highest-priced “new” listing in Hinsdale this past week, by a multiple of two, is a Colorado-style mountain lodge that comes with an appropriately...