Sharon Stangenes

Three architects. Narrow urban lot. 2,300 square feet. These were the key ingredients in a challenge for three new houses in a "challenge" to design three homes for buyers who...

`Location, location, location" is an oft-quoted axiom for successful businesses, including the placement of retail outlets. And it figures prominently in the mix of home sales as well. But how...

What Chicago neighborhood has been used for scenes in hit movies like "The Blues Brothers" and "The Fugitive" and is very near where "Barbershop" and "Barbershop 2" were shot? The...

With the old year rung out and a new one beginning, the House Hunter is putting away the 2004 notebooks, cleaning off the desk and hanging up a new calendar....

Aurora-based Bigelow Homes, an early local advocate of energy-efficient building, has been named Builder of the Year by Professional Builder, a leading trade publication in the residential construction industry. Bigelow...

Parents -- and most teens -- know the move to college is a child's first official step away from the family and the first home away from home very often...

Daniel Burnham's admonition to "make no little plans" has stirred the souls of developers for a hundred years and has been most evident recently in sprawling subdivisions on the outskirts...

Being a newcomer is seldom easy and being a newcomer in a crowded housing market must be no picnic. Richmond American Homes, one of the nation's 10 largest builders, announced...

Once upon a time the small towns of Illinois and surrounding states saw an exodus of educated and ambitious young people to the bright lights of Chicago. But for some...

As one who only occasionally drives to work at Tribune Tower, I steer south into the city on the Kennedy Expressway and exit the highway via the wide loop to...