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Chicago Housing Market . Rosy Scenarios have Thorns
A few nights ago Jackson rewrote history in the magnificent manner that a five-year-old will, telling the story of how mommy and daddy fell in love on the beach. While we have shared more than a few beach front holidays with sand beneath out feet, our initial meeting was a bit more urbane with the [...]
Lessons from Lucas – PJs All Day
Maybe my son Lucas has it right. Last week when my wife said it was time to get dressed he responded simply and succinctly, I stay in my pajamas when I stay at home. I wear outdoor clothes when I go outdoors. Right now I am at home so I am in my pajamas. I [...]
Fingerprints on Chicago Real Estate Listings
We leave our fingerprints. Whether it is the Chicago real estate market or anywhere else where homes are being sold (or at least listed in the hope of being sold), we leave our fingerprints. Meaning what? Meaning there is a record of what was paid and when it was paid. There are tax records that [...]
Triple Tens on Marathon Sunday in Chicago
If ever there was a day to stop on a dime, today would be that day. Three of them in a row. Ten / ten / ten. A few years back, when the days lined up in a sequence of sevens, we traveled to Vegas. Like droves of others I figured that since numbers don’t [...]
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 [...]
