“Why would anyone want to buy an apartment?!” This question was posed more than three decades ago by someone who’d been raised in suburban Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s; privileged to have lived in a single-family house since the age of two. As a young adult in the early 1970s, she moved to a high-rise rental apartment on [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Chicago Condo History 101
Posted in Buyer Buyer Not So Dire!, High-rise lowdown, tagged Buyer, Chicago Real Estate, condo living, Edgewater, Jill Press on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Car-free Gaining Mileage
Posted in Car-free digest, tagged Car-free, Chicago Real Estate, Jill Press, Sustainable Lifestyle on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And the hits just keep on coming… This week, I received email from two total strangers as well as a guy I haven’t seen since I lived in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., circa 1970! All three had read Lee Crandell’s profile of me in Carfree Chicago. Three people in different cities reaching out to me. Why? One is starting a Biking Realtors Group in Chicago and [...]
