Archive for July, 2010
Homer Glen Listing Offers Interesting Incentive
Desperate times call for creative measures. The Joliet Herald is reporting that there is a home for sale in Homer Glen that offers 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a 3-car garage and a 2001 Mercedes convertible. The 2-story Georgian, located at 13549 W. Oakwood Court in the southwest suburb, is listed for $599,000. It has been [...]
Win-Win: Chicago Suburb Saves Energy, Earns Prize
And the winner of the ComEd Community Energy Challenge is — drum roll, please — the Village of Schaumburg! The yearlong ComEd conservation contest is part of a pilot program designed to help towns in the ComEd service territory save energy. Nine municipalities participated in the challenge, which ended May 31. Together, they saved more [...]
Illinois Sales Tax Holiday Means Back to School For Less
Going back to school can be expensive. In fact, according to the 2010 Huntington Backpack Index, the average cost to send a child back to school with all the school-recommended supplies this fall is approximately $474 for elementary school, $545 for middle school and $1,000 for high school students! Only middle-school costs increased from the [...]
No Clear Plan for Former School Site in Wheaton
Wheaton city council members met this week to discuss ideas for redeveloping a 22-acre site that used to be a middle school. Ideas were formed. Decisions were not. Steve Friedman, of S. B. Friedman & Company, offered an array of development choices from residential to commercial to mixed-use. And each has its own sets of [...]
A New Start for New Construction
There’s good news for new construction. Well, sort of. The U.S. Commerce Department is reporting that the sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 23.6 percent to 330,000 units in June. Of course, this is coming off May’s historic low of only 267,000 new homes sold. If you average out the number of homes sold [...]
