All Entries Tagged With: "Chicago Real Estate"
Radon Testing A Must For Chicago Real Estate
Radon, which is a natural but radioactive gas, is colorless, odorless and responsible for causing lung cancer in non-smokers and kills 21,000 Americans every year. Radon can enter a home from underground, pipes, cracks in home foundations or holes. One in 15 homes can have high levels of radon, according to the EPA. The good [...]
Chicago Ranks Prominently Among Visitors and Residents
Chicago real estate is the best architecture in the country. That’s not just my opinion, it’s Travel and Leisure readers’ opinions too. The magazine asked readers, both residents and visitors, to rank 35 U.S. cities on such things as real estate, people, food, entertainment, weather and more. Chicago earned the No. 1 spot out of [...]
Drury Design Wins Midwest Design Vision Awards’ Best of Show
More and more Chicago real estate owners are looking to invest in their own homes through remodeling. Recently, the best the area has to offer in remodeling was honored at the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) Midwest Design Vision awards. Drury Design took the show by storm, winning 11 awards, including Best of Show. Gladys [...]
In What Ward is Your Chicago Real Estate?
The Chicago City Council last week adopted a new map of the city’s 50 wards, which might have just changed where your Chicago real estate lives. The redistricting came about after the 2010 Census showed a big change in the city’s population and demographics, including a major drop in the African-American population and a surge [...]
Illinois Owns Nation’s Highest Move-Out Rate
More people are moving out of Illinois and Chicago real estate than almost anywhere in the country. Moving company United Van Lines has released data from 2011 to show that the bulk of their customers in Illinois were moving out of the state. For 2011, United tracked 113,916 interstate moves from January 1 through December [...]
