Mar 15th 2010 @ 4:30PM
Want to live like a millionaire? Buy this simple house in Lake Forest, Ill. -- a one-bedroom, one-bath cottage for $350,000 listed by Coldwell Banker. It's just a few blocks from a similar one-bedroom, three-room cottage owned by Grace Groner, 100, who died in January and left $7 million to her alma mater, Lake Forest ... Continue Reading »
Mar 10th 2010 @ 9:00AM
Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood prepped for its biggest influx of residents since the post Civil-War Great Black Migration when it bid for the 2016 Olympics last year. Rio de Janeiro won the bid, but that just makes Bronzeville an even better housing value. Once one of the only Chicago neighborhoods where African ... Continue Reading »
Feb 17th 2010 @ 2:00PM
Tiffany Harston, an assistant principal, says what she loves best about her Chicago South Side Chatham neighborhood is its stability. "It's known to be a nice, family-oriented black community where a lot of middle-class families reside," she says. And that includes some famous former residents. Chatham is the childhood ... Continue Reading »
Feb 11th 2010 @ 12:00PM
South Side Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood is probably best known as the boyhood home of Mayor Richard M. Daily, and where his father, the late Mayor Richard J. Daily, lived all his life. That solid-brick bungalow (left) is at 3536 S. Lowe St. The neighborhood's also close to U.S. Cellular Field, where the White Sox ... Continue Reading »
