Even though we are still feeling the affect of the recession, Chicago open houses are on my calendar this weekend. My husband and I have decided that its time to find a house to settle down in and move from our small 2 br townhouse. We spend a lot of evenings searching through hundreds of real [...]
Apartments like this are common in Chicago, get started on your apartment search today.
Spring is the time that most people look for an apartment in Chicago. Rental Leases are up and it is the first time for the year that it is warm enough that you can actually move furniture our of one apartment and [...]
Sunset driving on 90/94 from the south, a great way to enter the city and see the Sears Tower, Willis Tower
The city of Chicago is shocked and saddened right now by the news that the Sears Tower is going to be renamed the Willis Tower for the new company renting/leasing the major quantity of office space there. [...]
I just read on Chicago Breaking News Blog that the Cook County Assessor’s office is issuing 9.8 Million dollars in property tax refunds to 8,500 home owners in the next few weeks of 2008. Will I be one of the lucky few?
I am not holding my breath, this happens about once a year as estimations and real [...]
Have you ever needed a zip code to find out an address or mail a letter to someone and needed their zip code? I run into this problem a lot so here are the zip codes I have been able to compile from a few different places on the web. There are Chicago neighborhood zip [...]
Chicago condos and real estate values have dropped in a little in the last 6 months so if you were priced out of the market before, you may be able to afford the right property now. You can find some of the hottest properties in Lakeview, Lincoln Park and Old Town (Gold Coast) for about 5-7% less [...]
I got my Oak Park FYI newsletter in the mail today and it has a mention that a new condo tower will be built at South Avenue and Harlem Avenue in Oak Park. Don’t we have enough condos in Oak Park? At any given moment in the current housing crash and real estate meltdown there are over 500 [...]
I was startled to find out that there are red light cameras monitoring the intersections on Boughton Road in Bolingbrook, IL now. These cameras are taking photograph evidence of cars at the intersection in order to write tickets. These thing they call violations are hardly so. They have been sending $100.00 tickets to people who [...]
No one needs to tell us that Chicago has awful and unbearable traffic jams and congestion. We are familiar with sitting in traffic on any highway or street at any hour of the day or night. (I have sat in traffic jams at 2am) What we didn’t know is that Chicago ranked 2nd in a national [...]
The Hillside Landfill is the smelliest landfill in Chicago. It has been smelling up 290 in the area by the hillside strangler merge for about 2 years now. I drive by it at least twice a week and even with the windows on my car closed and the air conditioning system off, I still smell that [...]
I have lived in Chicago my entire life and I have never seen the real estate and housing market take a crash like it has been doing this summer. Summer is usually the best time to sell or buy a new home or property. This summer of 2007 has been bad for real estate values [...]
