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The village of Oak Park grew from a small detached community at the time of the Civil War to a thriving “urban” suburb due largely to the exodus of residents from its larger neighbor after the great Chicago Fire of 1871. The village is known internationally as the home...
Whether it’s an appreciation of greenery, a fruitful use of spare time or an ongoing quest for “curb appeal,” homeowners love landscaping and gardening. Homes look great with shrubs and flowers around them and many homeowners show off their creativity by building planter boxes and other constructions to enhance...
Unless located in the tropics where home heating is unnecessary and fireplaces unheard of, almost every house has a chimney of some type. Homes with fireplaces have a chimney to vent them and the whole assembly extends into the basement (or crawl space) to accommodate an ash pit and clean-out...
Merrillville IN is a town with two personalities – it is both a bedroom suburb and a major commercial center, often referred to as the “Main Street of Northwest Indiana.” Indeed, the U.S. Route 30 corridor in Merrillville is home to numerous big-box retailers, restaurants and car dealerships. The Star...
German-born architect Mies van der Rohe is well known in Chicago as the designer of the International style, “glass box” buildings on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology and for other buildings in the city like IBM Plaza and the Federal Center. Most of van der Rohe’s work...
Let’s face it; cleaning gutters on a home is a pain in the neck. A conscientious homeowner will tackle the job twice a year, spring and fall, and the project usually involves ladders, garden hoses, odd-looking scoops (or just dirty hands) and often a lot of sweating and yelling. Some homeowners...
Lots of homes have crawl spaces. They may be partial ones that share the home’s footprint with a half-basement or they may be full, serving as the only belowground space in the home. Regardless of their size, crawl spaces are like mini-basements that, although lacking the necessary headroom to be...
Kenosha WI is a city of 98,000 that lies on the western shore of Lake Michigan about midway between Milwaukee and Chicago. To some it is an urban center with its own suburbs, to others Kenosha itself is a suburb of Milwaukee and some big thinkers even consider it...
As winter snows melt or summer thunderstorms pour down rain, telltale signs of home maintenance problems commonly begin to crop up. Gutters leak, lawns grow puddles and mold begins to sprout. Worst of all, basements begin to get leaky. At the end of winter, the soil around the foundation thaws...
If you were to look at a bar graph of the dates of home construction in Naperville IL, you’d see a big jump in the decades of the 1980s and 90s. Nearly two-thirds of Naperville’s homes were built during that 20-year period and it is rightly described as Naperville’s...
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