Aid for Illinois Homeless Programs Is Running Out

An Illinois program that has a solid track record of preventing families from becoming homeless due to temporary crises in their finances is about to run out of money. The Illinois Homeless Prevention Program provides small grants to families that help them weather short-term financial problems that threaten to force them out of their homes. In 2010, the average grant was $916—which shows just how thin the line is between being housed and being homeless for many Illinois families…

A Lincoln Park House of Unknown Origin

List Price: $4 million
The Property: Although it’s one of the biggest and most eye-catching homes on a Lincoln Park street lined with landmarks, there is very little known about the origins of today’s house. That’s surprising, because someone in the early 1890s did a fine job of creating a distinctive home with a broad façade of rough-hewn stone capped by a turret and a mansard roof…

Going Green Made Easier

In 2008, Laura Reedy Stukel set out to do an environmentally sensitive rehab of her Elmhurst home. “I spent two hours a night for months researching windows and whatever,” she recalls. “It was impossibly complicated…”