The image below has appeared on so many different Realtor and industry blogs lately that I don’t even know whom to properly credit for having captured it. Well, as I’m in doubt, I’ll credit Bill McSpadden Real Estate for it (not sure where they’re located). Notice the rider below the sign, though. They must have [...]

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Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…
Well, for a couple of days, at least. My family and I have been engaging in our annual Independence Day holiday ritual: Visiting extended family in the North Woods, where the air is clean, the boating is fun, kids’ laughter is contagious, and the darkness at night gives a whole [...]

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On Saturday night, I finally made it to Al Primo Canto in Edgebrook. I had written about the opening of this downtown (or “uptown”, as the long-time residents say) Edgebrook restaurant back in September of last year, but it took me only seven months to get myself over here. We were “pre”-celebrating my sister-in-law’s birthdays, [...]

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I’ve been checking on this Google feature every few weeks, since Google introduced Street View for Chicago, back in October of last year. But strangely, Street View was not in service for 60646, nor for various other Chicago neighborhoods. Since I work with maps (and especially Google maps) quite a bit, today I pulled up [...]

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Not quite ready to bloom yet.

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Sure, the winter storm that dumped almost a foot of snow on us last night, was nasty. The good news though is, the mayor hasn’t been vacationing in Florida, and Streets and San have been on the ball with their salt trucks/plows. The day after, all major arteries in Edgebrook and Sauganash are clean as [...]

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