Real Estate
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Richard Walker's Pancake House in Schaumburg expandingApr 29, 2015 1:00 am - The popular, 25-year-old Richard Walker's Pancake House in Schaumburg's Remington Plaza Shopping Center will expand this spring into an adjacent, vacant space to add mor...
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Condo developers want $4.7 million more from WheelingApr 28, 2015 5:30 am - If Wolf Road subdivision gets $4.7 million more, total breaks would equal $15.2 million
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'Gingerbread House' on Arlington Heights' annual house walkApr 27, 2015 11:00 pm - Everybody in Arlington Heights knows the home at 216 E. Euclid Ave. Everybody has walked or driven past it. Everybody has said, "I wonder what it is like inside." All kn...
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Randhurst, village officials spar over need for more lightingApr 27, 2015 1:00 am - The Mount Prospect village board would like to see more street lighting around Randhurst Village, but the shopping center's management fears more lighting could bring mo...
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New owners hope to turn Lombard's old hotel into 'destination'Apr 27, 2015 1:00 am - There are little bits of history that pop up everywhere you turn in the old hotel building in downtown Lombard. Some of the oldest details in the three-story structure a...
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Lenders are wooing wary homeownersApr 26, 2015 7:33 am - In recent years, housing inventory in some areas has been tight, partly because a sizable number of owners who were ready to move up to a larger home or downsize to a sm...
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Jump in home loans at Wells Fargo, JPMorgan signals 2015 revivalApr 26, 2015 7:08 am - Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted their largest mortgage-lending gains in more than a year as the recovery in the market gains momentum. Wells Fargo made...
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Create bathroom luxury for twoApr 26, 2015 12:01 am - Make peace with living in your downsized home. At some point you may have to accept you cannot arrange for a huge two-person soaking tub in the master bath. How can you ...
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Two coats of stain for new wooden shakesApr 26, 2015 12:00 am - Q: I wrote to you last fall about what stain to use on my newly installed cedar shake shingles (No. 1 grade), and as per your response, I am going to use TWP 200. What I...
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Hard to justify legal fight with condo board over $400Apr 26, 2015 12:00 am - Q. I purchased a condominium a few months ago. I recently was told the association did some work at the property just before I closed. I am getting bills from the associ...