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Glass Countertops Edging Out Granite

If you’re seeking a clear alternative to granite as a countertop surface, the glass is more than half full — it’s overflowing with creative possibilities, in fact — thanks to the esthetic advantages and practical flexibility offered by thermoformed glass.
Created via a special process that uses extreme heat to mold flat objects, thermoformed glass is [...]

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Heritage Harbor Wine Tasting Event

Heritage Harbor in Southwest suburban Ottawa is hosing a wine tasting event on Friday, April 16th at their Heritage Harbor and Quest Watersports facility.  The 7th annual wine tasting event will begin at 5:30 and will wrap up around 8:30 PM on that Friday evening.  The cost is $15 for the pleasure of sampling over [...]

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Experience Spring through Premier Gardening Exhibition

Need to escape this Chicago winter? Love the theater? Head down to Navy Pier from Saturday, March 6 through Sunday, March 14 for the 2010 Chicago Flower & Garden Show.
“Cultivating Great Performances” focuses on Chicago as a theater town. Each design came from the creative minds of those from the Goodman Theatre, the Lookingglass Theatre [...]

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Chicago Tribune Festival of Homes in Full Swing

Spring 2010 brings the bi-annual Chicago Tribune Festival of Homes.  For six weeks, local builders and developers are ready to show off their housing stock to thawing house hunters.  This year the festival has embraced social media and can be found with a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and has it’s own YouTube channel.   Tune in your social [...]

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Verseman Offers 5 prime Homesites at Harvest Glen in Cary

Verseman Development now has five prime homesites ready to be claimed at Harvest Glen, a community of completely custom single-family residences in Cary.
Each of the five lots—on which a one-of-a-kind personalized luxury home can be built—are among the most picturesque and desirable parcels available at Harvest Glen, said Jeff Holz, co-owner of Cary-based Verseman Development [...]

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New Homes In Richmond By Gerstad Builders, Model Now Open!

A professionally decorated two-story home with 1,995 square feet of living space has been reopened in Gerstad Builder’s Trails of Pheasant Ridge community in northwest Chicagoland offering new homes in Richmond Illinois. In addition to the decorated model, the builder is also introducing four new floor plans that are sized and finished with amenities [...]

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Learn How to Garden the Green Way – the Organic Gardening Workshop

How green does your garden grow? Learn how to grow it greener through the Chicago Park District’s Organic Gardening Workshop: Rain Barrels & Rain Gardening this Saturday.
Set to take place at Kilbourn Park & Organic Greenhouse, this class will demonstrate how to install a rain garden and harvest rainwater. Participants will receive a rebate from [...]

Modular Home Construction Gets Green, Fancy And More Mainstream

For some reason, the idea of having your new home built in a climate-controlled, systematic factory setting is unappealing to the average consumer.  To many, it conjures up images of assembly lines and cold, factory-like precision and monotony of identical widgets getting packaged and shipped away.  Those who are more open-minded and familiar with the [...]

Former Blackhawk Poised to Take Loss on Condo

Former Chicago Blackhawks left winger Martin Havlat is willing to take a loss on his 16th-floor Chicago condo.
The 1800-square-foot unit, located at 201 N. Westshore Dr. in Streeterville, is part of the Lancaster Condo development. Havlat is asking $725,000 for the home, which he bought in 2006 for $760,000 plus $75,000 for a parking space.
Havlat, [...]

Tour at Museum Displays Green Living

Want to see Chicago’s greenest home? Visit Home: Green + Wired at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Situated on the museum’s east side, the exhibit is a real, functioning three-story home that features the latest in eco-friendly living and is being touted as the greenest home in Chicago.
In its third year, the 2500-square-foot demo [...]

Billy Corgan Has Smashed Condo Price

Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan has smashed the asking price of his Gold Coast condo.
Corgan purchased the full-floor unit, located at 20 E. Burton Place in Chicago, for $2.95 million in 2002. He first listed the vintage, 6-room condo in 2008 for $5.5 million, reduced the asking price to $4.35 million in April 2009 [...]