Real Estate
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Hoffman Estates leaders impatient over fire sprinklersAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Hoffman Estates village board members are getting even more impatient than the fire chief with commercial properties that have still not retrofitted fire-suppression spr...
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Flood insurance discounts available for Lake County landownersAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Property owners in unincorporated Lake County may be eligible to save more than $238 a year on their flood insurance policies. Residents who meet certain requirements a...
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Office building designed before recession to be built in Hoffman EstatesAug 18, 2015 5:30 am - A rare example of a recession-stalled building project being resurrected virtually intact occurred in Hoffman Estates Monday when village board members approved a medica...
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Townhouses, apartments on Des Plaines site, or hold out for business?Aug 18, 2015 5:30 am - Should a vacant 20-acre former industrial site on Northwest Highway in Des Plaines become home to a new residential development? Or should city officials hold out hope t...
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Wheeling approves tax exemption for planned industrial buildingAug 18, 2015 5:30 am - In a move to keep business in Cook County, the Wheeling village board Monday approved a tax exemption for a $17 million multitenant industrial building expected to be co...
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Gerflorexpands in BensenvilleAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - BENSENVILLE - Savills Studley represented global flooring company, Gerflor, in its recent expansion and renewal of office and industrial space at 595 Supreme Drive in Be...
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Schaumburg-based housing assistance program turns 25Aug 16, 2015 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based North West Housing Partnership is celebrating a milestone - 25 years assisting thousands of individuals to obtain and improve their housing in Cook, DuP...
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Celebrity designer Genevieve Gorder shares her secretsAug 16, 2015 7:00 am - Designer and TV personality Genevieve Gorder just completed a photo shoot in Mexico City, and when she thinks about how far her career has come she doesn't hesitate to s...
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How to maximum narrow spaceAug 16, 2015 6:00 am - You cannot get much narrower than the hallway of a 1950s tract house. In the first place, they were fairly tiny houses, generally less than 1,200 square feet, with relat...
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Spray-foam insulation is useful tool when sealing a spaceAug 16, 2015 1:00 am - Q. I recently read an answer you gave about attic ventilation. The part that caught my attention was, "But the first thing to do is to look for all possible convective p...