Evan Lysacek Wins Olympic Gold

Everyone was a buzz last night as Evan Lysacek won the gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Canada. Chicago is buzzing because Evan Lysacek is from this area originally although he trains in California. I’m excited because Evan Lysacek is one of the local skaters I saw skating back when I was [...]

New Homes For Sale Elgin, Oswego and Huntley Illinois

Finding New Homes for Sale has been more difficult than I thought.  We never thought we would be looking in Elgin, Oswego, Wauconda or Huntley, IL but we are. We have been looking for a house to buy for the last 6 months and we haven’t found anything we like that we can afford in Naperville or Wheaton or [...]

Black Friday Ads & Sales, Cyber Monday Deals 2009

The buzz about Black Friday Ads and Sales has grown from being just an inside retail industry term a few years ago to a regularly used term that ends up on posters and fliers sent to the public weeks before the day after Thanksgiving actually arrives. The change may have to do with the recession and how badly retailers [...]

Michigan Avenue Lights Festival & Millennium Park Ice Skating

This is a great weekend to spend time downtown in Chicago. The Michigan Avenue Lights Festival is happening, which leads us right into Thanksgiving on Thursday and then the Black Friday Sale Madness on Friday. Millennium Park’s Ice Skating Rink also opens and the Museum of Science and Industry has their annual Christmas Tree Exhibit [...]

Ebay personal shoppers on Michigan Avenue by Wrigley Building

I got an email from the nice people at Ebay last week letting me know that they would be on Michigan Avenue with a truck full of computers and a bunch of personal shoppers to help you find what you need in gifts to buy and ship anywhere in the USA this holiday season. I saw the [...]