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Warning – This May Ruin House Hunters For You! Any fan of HGTV has spent at least one afternoon binge watching a House Hunters marathon. You find yourself rooting for one house or another, [...]

Is Chicago the next Silicon Valley? It may be a little too early to call. But the recent tech boom has been hard to miss. Google. Groupon. Yelp. Uber.  LinkedIn. Everyone’s been moving into [...]

Highland Park Neighborhood The suburb of Highland Park is located several miles North of Chicago’s West Loop. The neighborhood runs along Lake Michigan, a perk many residents take full advantage [...]

1. It’s Spelled “WILLIS”. It’s Pronounced “Sears”   Disney owns Marvel? Okay. Clorox owns Burt’s Bee’s? Fine. But the “Willis Group” owns the Sears Tower and a city rises up in protest. A [...]

  We’ve all heard the horror stories: people get too eager when buying a house and wind up with the wool pulled over their eyes. In some cases, they wind up with a few hundred dollars of [...]

Highland Park, located in Lake County, is about 26 miles north of downtown Chicago.  It was founded in 1869 with a population of 500, and evolved from two settlements: St. John and Port Clinton. [...]

This is an exciting time to be a sports fan in Chicago.  The Blackhawks and Bulls are gearing up for playoff runs while the Cubs and White Sox have opened camp in Arizona. The Blackhawks have [...]

The Buffalo Grove real estate market has had a very strong start to 2016.  The average price of single family homes has increased nicely in January 2016 to $382,476, a 5.4% improvement over the [...]

According to the Chicago Business Journal, this could be the perfect time buy a new home in the Chicago area! The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, which tracks home prices in the 20 [...]