A brief respite from the blog. I meant to write more often, but something always stood in the way. Like being busy with new Chicago real estate listings, meeting new clients, watching cartoons with...

Words have meaning. But what about when the word doesn't gain traction? Like when an auction results merely in sales at market price. I don't think that's what folks had in mind last week in Chicago....

Chicago movie reviewer Roger Ebert was especially worth reading when he panned a movie. Thoughts of Ebert filled my head when I read a NYT review this morning of "The Blind Side." One line in...

Synchronicity? Things that are seemingly unrelated but upon further review are related and add up to some type of meaning. I thought of synchronicity when I read Monday that Chicago's Elysian project...

A daily scanning of listings in the Chicago market yields interesting caveats, including a transacted property in Lakeview that lost $134,000 from what it initially sold for two years earlier.