`Painted lady’ townhouses grace suburb
Rising like a stage set along Illinois Highway 59 in Naperville in the center of high-growth suburbia is a small development of Victorian-style townhouses. The eye-catching project reflects the aesthetic...
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Condos feel at home on Michigan Avenue
Is Michigan Avenue, the fabled street of world-class shopping, trendy restaurants and office buildings instead becoming Chicago's version of New York's Park Avenue? One look at the number of vintage...
Housing aimed at active adults offers a nice fit
Big signs sometimes help. And for house hunters in unfamiliar territory, as I was in Schiller Park, the big "Condos" and "Grace Park" signs helped signal I had reached my...
A slow look worth taking at these units
Right after architect Victor LaPorte closed the door to the meter room , his builder partner Neal Katz asked if the architect had brought his keys. No such luck. In...
Talk queen helped to spur glitzy condos
Oprah Winfrey came to mind as I stepped out of a cab at 909 Washington Condominiums, a new mixed-use building in the bustling West Loop. When the television talk show...
Multilevel house gets a split decision
Split-level houses were all the rage for a portion of the 20th Century, but the style has fallen on hard times. Split-level houses accounted for only 1 percent of the...
Golden State brings its best to the Midwest
California is known as a center for innovation in production housing. So I was more than a little curious when told that Los Angeles-based KB Home, which recently re-entered the...
Nautical theme for new homes in west Elgin
Providence is among the first of the major developments planned for Elgin's Far West side. Opened in May 2004, the development is planned for 1,061 homes on nearly 500 acres....
Internet, e-mails gain in home-buying importance
The Internet is playing a larger and larger hand in the home-buying process. "Web sites have played a huge role and they have come on the scene in the last...
Plenty of sun bathes buyers of these homes
How many people buy a house for a single room? You see a space and there is an instant, magnetic bond. You can picture just where the furniture will go,...