Sharon Stangenes

`I'm spoiled for corners," said the young woman when asked why she was shopping at Skybridge, a 237-unit highrise condominium next to the Kennedy Expressway at Washingston Street just west...

Call me a traditionalist, but I love the big wood beams, brick walls, high ceilings and wide windows of commercial buildings built at the turn of the 20th Century in...

Driving into Silverstone Lake, a development planned for 560 townhouses and 384 condominiums in northwest suburban Carpentersville, I saw two little girls, perhaps 6 years old, each with a backpack,...

The tasteful advertisement for Lee Station in Winfield did what it was supposed to do. It hit all the right hot buttons for a House Hunter browsing through a newspaper...

What to say about a housing development that lacks several features you think necessary and sensible, but you kind of like anyway? That is my reaction to the Lofts at...

Just when Chicago's Loop became a student hub, I don't know. But a study in 2000 found that 50,000 to 60,000 students attend classes in the Loop and surrounding neighborhoods....

My colleague of the Sunday Real Estate section recently wrote a column reporting that, according to a recent study, the 60618 ZIP code on Chicago's North Side led the metropolitan...

The mere mention of the name "Naperville" has been shorthand for fast-growth suburbia, revolving-door corporate relocation and the cornfield edge of the Chicago metropolitan area during the last few decades....

`There. You can see what sells this unit," said sales consultant Randee Schreyer as she opened the door to model 721 at Asbury Woods in suburban Justice. I saw a...

Over the last 30 years, the intersection of Barrington and Palatine Roads has gone from a rural intersection on the way to large and gracious horse farms to a multi-lane...