Wayne Faulkner

It's ornate; it's elegant . . . it's pink. It's so not the NFL. But it does describe the building where the late Bears coach and owner George S. Halas...

The Beverly-Morgan Park community is a rare commodity -- a city neighborhood with suburban-sized lots, a wide variety of housing styles and a racially integrated population. And, it has the...

Welcome to condo country. Whether in the tightly packed neighborhoods of Chicago's North Side, the redeveloping downtowns of suburbs on commuter rail lines or in the exurban corn fields now...

Here's a number that arguably is the most talked about among Americans: property value. Whether we are buying, selling or holding, it seems we want to keep close tabs on...

The value is in the land. That phrase is often the structural kiss of death to a home. It's a statement on the multiple listing or in advertising that lets...

Turning former public housing sites into mixed-income neighborhoods sounds like a good idea, but will the developers and the Chicago Housing Authority be able to entice middle-class folks to buy...

Bridgeport is a name that for decades has been synonymous with political power and blue-collar, European ethnic culture. While those factors are still true, the South Side neighborhood of the...

Three families shop for houses in three Chicago-area communities. They pick out homes with roughly the same number of rooms and features and pay the same price. All put down...

Maybe the saying should be "schools, schools, schools," rather than "location, location, location." You probably don't need a study to tell you that the No. 1 consideration for most families...