John Handley

The options for retirement living continue to expand in the Chicago area. Now comes Carillon North, a new active-adult community designed for those 55 years and older. Cambridge Homes plans...

Finding land for residential construction sometimes requires the use of the wrecker's ball. That was the case with Creekside Pointe, a 36-unit condominium development by Burnside Construction Co. in downtown...

Gallery 400 is going be a work of art. The new residential project in Chicago's River North area is testimony that the neighborhood, a center for art galleries, is also...

"People are more focused on home and hearth today, so we decided to build a development where all ages can live together," said Edward Havlik, president and chief executive officer...

The Stiffel Lamp Co. finally turned out the lights and moved away last month, but the six-story industrial building in Chicago's River North neighborhood won't be dark for long. Enterprise...

The new magic number in the home mortgage game is called a credit score. Is your score high enough to guarantee fast approval of your mortgage application? That depends on...

The polo players are gone, but the equestrian sport will be well remembered in west suburban Glendale Heights. The mystique of the game will live on in the name of...

Chicago's residential construction boom has moved to the city's Far Southeast Side. Grove Park Village is planned for 116 single-family homes on a 13-acre site at 98th Street and Commercial...

A 19th Century cranberry bog has not been forgotten in the tiny village of Hainesville in Lake County. It suggested the name for a new 378-home subdivision called Cranberry Lake....

A mostly vacant urban renewal site from the 1960s finally will be "renewed." Verona Square, a new residential project with a mix of 117 single-family rowhouses, two-flats, townhouses and three-unit...