If you’ve just recently moved to Edgebrook or Sauganash, the annual Edgebrook Festival at Kinzua and Devon is a great way to learn about some companies/vendors/restaurants/hospitals that you may be frequenting in your new neighborhood. Heck, the exhibitors even come from as far as North Park.
I had a chance to take my family this [...]

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I had written about this in another post, and, this may hardly be news to you if you happen to live in or around North Edgebrook. But I thought you might be interested in seeing the pictures, live and in color. A fat, juicy SWO-Notice from the Chicago Dept. of Buildings was slapped on the [...]

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We’re three weeks into the second half of 2008, and it’s time for a recap of residential real estate activity in Edgebrook and Sauganash, as it happened in the second quarter.
While sipping my coffee this morning, I was reading an article on the front page of the Chicago Tribune, that talked about the “summer of [...]

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Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, you read that right. Last night, at the conclusion of a two and a half hour meeting between Ald. Doherty, the 41st Ward Zoning Advisory Board, about 50 residents of the subdivision north of Touhy Ave in North Edgebrook, and the owner of 6000 W Touhy Ave, Gus Tountas, along with [...]

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As a Chicago resident, my understanding has always been that Aldermen of any ward in Chicago possess what’s called an “aldermanic prerogative”, the supreme right as it were, to determine what shall be built within their ward and what shall not. Eric Zorn from the Chicago Tribune rightfully points out that aldermanic prerogative is a [...]

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A clogged storm sewer has been misinterpreted as a pond by these two friendly ducks. That’s what I’m talking about when I say: Suburban living in Chicago.

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