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Hammond IN is the largest city in Lake County with a population of 76,000. Its development began with the meatpacking industry and the city was named after the owner of the city’s first packing plant. Outside the immediate area, Hammond may be best known as the hometown of American humorist...
Waukesha is the seventh-largest community in the state of Wisconsin with a population of nearly 69,000 and it has been recognized numerous times as a great place to live. For example: Money magazine ranked Waukesha on its 2012 100 Best Places to Live list; Gibson Guitar Corporation named Waukesha as the...
Skokie is one of the older suburbs of Chicago, having been settled in the 1850’s and incorporated in 1888. Today it is a fully-developed residential and commercial suburb with a population of 66,000 living in nearly 24,000 homes. Most of these homes in Skokie have basements of poured concrete and...
Let’s talk about Yelp. Again. We have written before on this blog about the flaws in Yelp’s review system and, unfortunately, nothing much has changed. We don’t have it in for Yelp or anything but, as more and more people rely on it for consumer information we believe it’s...
Winter, at least in the snowbelt, is usually a vacation from leaky basements. The ground around foundations freezes, which limits absorption of water and accompanying soil saturation and movement, and precipitation typically arrives in the form of snow. Then, however, comes spring and all bets are off. Winters without water in...
Plainfield IL is the oldest and 5th largest suburb in Will County with a population of approximately 40,000. One of the highlights of Plainfield’s history is a relatively recent one, however, beginning when the Joliet, Plainfield & Aurora Railroad established an electric rail line connecting those communities in the late...
It’s not really fair to call the village of Norridge a “suburb” of Chicago because suburbs are generally defined as “outlying towns or districts” of a city. Maybe, since far-flung suburbs are often called “exurbs,” it might be best to coin a new term for Norridge and call it...
Modern Westchester is a small, pleasant suburb west of Chicago with a population of about 15,000. Like many suburbs in the Chicago area, it saw its period of greatest development following World War II when nearly half of its 7,000 homes were constructed. Had it not been for the Great...
In the cold and dark of a Midwestern winter, homeowners who enjoy doing things around the outside of their homes are pretty much on hold until spring arrives – unless you count snow blowing. It’s a great time for planning warm weather activities and projects, though. Gardeners can plan for...
Like many other southern and western Chicago suburbs, Villa Park was first brought to life by the railroad, in this case the electric Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad. The town established two railway stations for the CAE and was first built as two separate subdivisions, Villa Park and Ardmore...
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