Fishing for vacation homes
Is now the time to buy the vacation home of your dreams? That cottage by the lake, in the woods or on a golf course is a lot more affordable...
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Plano is ready for its close-up
Plano, a sleepy community in Kendall County, Ill., is scheduled to star as Smallville, Clark Kent's boyhood hometown, in a new Superman movie, "Man of Steel." Superman is coming! That's...
Workout specialists sort through backlog of troubled real estate projects
Picking up the pieces of the shattered real estate industry is accelerating in the Chicago area. Survivors of the drastic downturn have devised new ways to sell the massive inventory...
The rise and fall of ceilings
Ceilings used to soar. Influenced by McMansion mania more than a decade ago, two-story ceilings in foyers and family rooms became the norm in higher-end homes. Second-story bridges overlooked towering...
‘Floating above the city’
Breathtaking views from high-rise condos are a quick cure for Chicagoans suffering from winter blahs. The city's gems are framed in windows like artwork: a panorama of Lake Michigan as...
‘Floating above the city’
Breathtaking views from high-rise condos are a quick cure for Chicagoans suffering from winter blahs. The city's gems are framed in windows like artwork: a panorama of Lake Michigan as...
Huntley: At the corner of rural and suburban
Joan Berg may have had a hand in launching a building boom in Chicago's far northwest suburbs. She doesn't make that claim, but she could have had some influence on...
Huntley: At the corner of rural and suburban
Joan Berg may have had a hand in launching a building boom in Chicago's far northwest suburbs. She doesn't make that claim, but she could have had some influence on...
Amish in Illinois put tourism on table
The 19th century still lives a three-hour drive south of Chicago. But traveling there the Amish way in a horse-drawn buggy will take a day and a half. Clinging to...
Long Grove embraces the past, looks to the future
Firmly rooted in yesteryear, Long Grove wants to stay that way — at least in outward appearances. The affluent village, some 35 miles northwest of the Loop, strives to retain...