Real Estate
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Outdoor rooms with not-so-secret gardensJul 27, 2015 6:00 am - Christopher D. Ritzert's quarter-acre garden behind his 1930s stone Colonial in Washington started out as an unremarkable backyard with a jumble of weeds and neighboring...
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Bad idea before is still a bad idea nowJul 27, 2015 5:00 am - In checking the July 6th agenda for the meeting of the Wheeling Village Board, I was dismayed to see "Discussion of Village-Owned South Milwaukee Avenue Parcels" listed....
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New building planned where fire gutted downtown Mt. Prospect landmarkJul 27, 2015 1:00 am - The site of the former Sakura restaurant in Mount Prospect, gutted by a 2014 fire that destroyed a downtown landmark, could be home to a new building by next summer, a v...
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A decade of growth for housingJul 26, 2015 6:00 am - The housing market continues to grow and expand, according to most economists. At this rate, market activity this year may be the best in the past 10 years. “The residen...
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A little drama and splash of color are called for in a powder roomJul 26, 2015 1:01 am - Got a tiny powder room? I've been in powder bathrooms that are too small to turn around in. One that sticks out in my memory was in a client's town home; I'd swear that ...
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Mariano's developers to come to Des Plaines meetingJul 26, 2015 1:00 am - Representatives from the proposed Mariano's in Des Plaines will speak at Alderman Dick Sayad's upcoming 4th Ward meeting on Aug. 6. Officials involved in the project, as...
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The primal elegance of fernsJul 26, 2015 1:00 am - If you believe, as I do, that the most deeply satisfying gardens are ones not of flowers alone but of form and line, of texture and shades of green, then have I got a pl...
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Countryside nonprofit in Palatine to sell, relocateJul 25, 2015 7:45 am - The Countryside Association for People with Disabilities is a week or two away from selling its 8-acre Palatine facility and is looking for a new location in the same ge...
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Seven tips for a wonderful 'salon wall'Jul 25, 2015 7:00 am - Certain works of art stand alone. An Old Master painting deserves a wall of its own or an exalted space above the mantel. But other works of art increase their impact as...
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Five siblings hope to streamline home saleJul 25, 2015 1:00 am - Q. My parents died and left their house to the five of us. I had each of my siblings and their wives write and sign a note stating they were in agreement to have me take...