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The village of Frankfort IL started out, as did many of Chicago’s suburbs, as a home to members of the Potawatomi nation and other Native Americans. After the Blackhawk War when the Potawatomi ceded their land, the first new settlers arrived, most of them of English and Scottish descent...
A basement can be a lot of things, depending on the needs of the homeowner. It can be a storage space or a laundry room. It can be a workshop or a place to pursue hobbies. It can be living space, like a family room or even bedrooms. Regrettably, a basement can also...
A crawl space can provide much-needed storage for infrequently used belongings or it can be a black hole – damp, dirty and moldy. Of course, no one actively chooses the second option for their crawl space but that’s the way many of them end up, especially when they’re not used...
Elmwood Park IL, tucked in against the northwest side of Chicago, is an “urban” inner-ring suburb with a population of 24,000 that first became attractive to settlement because of its large supply of rich, productive farmland. Farmers first came to the area, then known as Orison, in the 1840’s...
Lake Bluff IL is the northernmost point of the “North Shore,” Chicago’s string of upscale lakefront suburbs in Cook and Lake Counties. In some ways, the village lives in the shadow of Lake Forest, its larger and better-known neighbor to the south but Lake Bluff residents give up nothing...
One way to mitigate damage from a structural foundation problem and lower the cost of its repair is to spot the problem early. Unfortunately, many homeowners don’t know the signs of foundation damage and may ignore the problem unintentionally until it has progressed beyond the point of easy repair. One...
We Americans are great do-it-yourselfers. There’s an entire industry that has built up to support our initiative, ranging from books and magazines to online videos to TV shows – actually not just shows but an entire TV network dedicated to weekend warrior homeowners. There are even DIY celebrities, from the groundbreakers...
For a small town at the farther reaches of Chicago suburbia, Woodstock IL is a pretty fascinating place. The city is probably best known in recent times as the location of the iconic 1993 movie, Groundhog Day, which has inspired an annual Groundhog Festival and stimulated tourism. Digging back a little...
The commercial aspects of Oak Brook IL often overshadow the residential but the village is home to nearly 8,000 residents. Life in Oak Brook is decidedly upscale with larger homes and properties and higher incomes than most of the surrounding area. Oak Brook owes its existence heavily to the Butler...
Libertyville IL enjoyed a brief time in the national spotlight during the 1950’s when two-time Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson became widely known as the “Man from Libertyville.” Stevenson’s farm, once part of the Hawthorn-Mellody Farms built by the founder of Commonwealth Edison, is located in what was the south...
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