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Elgin, IL is today a growing city on the banks of the Fox River with a population in excess of 100,000. Founded as a stagecoach stop on the Chicago to Galena route and named after a Scottish hymn, Elgin grew famous as the home of two very different but...
The Buffalo Grove IL of the 21st Century strikes the visitor as the stereotypical suburb with lots of traffic, big box stores, fast food emporia and large tracts of modern housing. A quick dip into the community’s history, however, reveals its origins as a farm town that took longer...
Home repair is one of life’s necessary evils for homeowners and, whether it’s a do-it-yourself project or a job for a pro, it’s not much fun. What is even less fun is making the same repair over and over again, or paying a contractor to fix permanently what the homeowner...
All houses settle. That’s a fact. However, settling can be a minor event that is more or less expected or it can be a cause of major damage to the home. The expected kind happens shortly after construction when even the best-compacted soil may compact a little bit more with...
Crystal Lake IL is an old town with an interesting history, having been home to wealthy mansion-builders and members of famous circus families as well as some of the earliest European settlers in the Chicago area. One early business with a lasting legacy was the American Terra Cotta Tile and...
The village of Brookfield IL is best known these days as the home of the “Brookfield Zoo,” properly called the Chicago Zoological Society. The land on which the zoo sits today was donated by a daughter of legendary tycoon John D. Rockefeller but neither he nor she ranks as...
OK, so it rained. That’s usually not a big deal. It’s good for the flowers and trees and farmers, right? But then, sometimes it RAINS. Really rains. A gully washer. A downpour. A monsoon. Even-the-fast-speed-on-the-windshield-wipers-isn’t-enough kind of rain. Even though any rain can eventually affect groundwater around a home enough to...
OK, so you’re in the basement one morning to dig a pair of clean socks out of the dryer. Heading back upstairs you have one of those “wait a minute…” moments and think, “Did I see a crack in the wall?” It bugs you all day at work so...
Modern-day Barrington IL resembles a country town more than a big-city suburb with its spacious homes on large lots and horse farms within minutes of its quaint downtown. Life is good in Barrington, located in a ZIP Code named among the 10 wealthiest in the U.S., and days there...
Wilmette IL is one of a number of suburban villages that make up Chicago’s “North Shore,” a string of communities bordering Lake Michigan that stretches from Evanston on the city’s northern edge to Lake Bluff, only 14 miles from the Wisconsin state line. Wilmette, the first of the North Shore...
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