A Fall Chill Beneath Blue Chicago Skies
Today Chicago.
The boys and I returned home to Chicago Monday evening, an unfurling bit of ribbon that traced the sky from Dallas to Austin and from Austin home to Chicago. Jackson and Lucas won the admiration of surrounding single-flying adults for their big-boy behavior and smiled heartily in the momentary celebrity of praise.
Nicole returned late the next night with her mom well on her way to an astounding recovery and transition from Baylor to a stint at a secondary care facility before returning home.
Which is where I am. Where is where I started.
We got to Dallas two weeks ago yesterday on an emergency basis via American. Departing O’Hare before 9pm we were welcomed to what felt like the inside of a mouth out the doors of DFW where the thermometer gauged 97 degrees. So this morning as I scurry about wrestling with the windows in our Edgewater home to shun the delightful chill that comes from without I smile within. And yet I know that with our crossing the threshold into Fall a few days back the chill can propel rapidly to something much more.
But that’s the true and real seasonal beauty of holding an estate in Chicago or any other four season setting.
I tap away rapidly this morning to etch a notch in The Real Estate Lounge Chicago because it has been a while since last I etched. The pneumonia that gained my attention a few weeks back seems to have gone back in its gopher hole and Nicole and I actually positioned the boys in Kids Care at the gym yesterday and the day before to gain the first workouts since the hack/cough/fever arrived on the scene.
More workouts on the work front have occurred since then as well with my notable duplex penthouse at 1671 Claremont gaining attention and affection with a few second showings the past week, my single family home for rent at 1728 Huron in the East Village renting to a solid family just before, and several meetings with prospective clients this week to list their Gold Coast brownstone condo and Lakeview rehabbed vintage penthouse in the near future.
Showings also are up, whether at my redone brick North Center 2 flat at 5510 Spaulding or my four-level contemporary East Village home at 1858 Race. And today I meet with the brother of a client I recently assisted with a transaction at Trump Tower downtown to look at a variety of attractive properties en route to his decision toward a new home.
After this montage of activity I will return home to, as Lucas likes to call it, “the red home.” St. Gertrude’s, a block away, has blue skies to host its annual Gralley event featuring a smashing line up of musical entertainment and adding an exclamation point to its being a fantastic late in the season entry to the long slate of great things to do in Chicago.
That’s the thing about Chicago. One of the chief things to do, when all is said and done, is to come home.
And when it is time for you or someone you know to come home to Chicago or its North Shore suburbs, give me a call at 773.848.9241. You can count on me to set you up.
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